In semi-isolation game https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/nobles-club-366-justinian-i-of-byzantium.692846/ we have the only access to Financial AI. On IMM I found that AI very tech-performant. After few initial trades (which I enabled by planned resource & city gifting + shared religion) I cannot match performance of the AI and lose ability to trade after T100-120 - even if I control what AI is researching via espionage.
In the game all espionage goes to that single AI so I see F9 GNP report and I lose 2 times at T120. This & espionage research speed of techs are legit indicators of our economy difference. I compare F9 Gold report quite often to understand my performance.
To study the difference more I used non-legit means - Ctrl+W - WorldBuilder. In the F2 (Financial Advisor) I could choose AI and I so my rival works ~= 80% tiles more & generate 100% research. I want to study situation in finer details regardless if it is considered cheating. What are the options?
Can I see AI's happy / health limits? Can I look inside AI's cities and see their unit / building prices or how many GP settled in a city?
Will I see shrines in the list of Wonders on F9?
And somewhat offtopic - maybe it is dumb to try match semi-isolated AI economically and instead focus on breaking isolation or overthrow AI with military might before Optics / Astro?
I want to understand why AI is so ahead in research. I see 2 reasons from Worldbuilder F2 screen - I work less much cottage tiles against Financial AI. But I designed empire to work on cottages, probably my cities are small (3-6 vs AI's 6-10). But I don't have happiness enough for large cities... Maybe AI is full of religious buildings... because it wasn't at Monarchy yet at some point...
In the game all espionage goes to that single AI so I see F9 GNP report and I lose 2 times at T120. This & espionage research speed of techs are legit indicators of our economy difference. I compare F9 Gold report quite often to understand my performance.
To study the difference more I used non-legit means - Ctrl+W - WorldBuilder. In the F2 (Financial Advisor) I could choose AI and I so my rival works ~= 80% tiles more & generate 100% research. I want to study situation in finer details regardless if it is considered cheating. What are the options?
Can I see AI's happy / health limits? Can I look inside AI's cities and see their unit / building prices or how many GP settled in a city?
Will I see shrines in the list of Wonders on F9?
And somewhat offtopic - maybe it is dumb to try match semi-isolated AI economically and instead focus on breaking isolation or overthrow AI with military might before Optics / Astro?
I want to understand why AI is so ahead in research. I see 2 reasons from Worldbuilder F2 screen - I work less much cottage tiles against Financial AI. But I designed empire to work on cottages, probably my cities are small (3-6 vs AI's 6-10). But I don't have happiness enough for large cities... Maybe AI is full of religious buildings... because it wasn't at Monarchy yet at some point...