winddbourne
Prince
Luckystrike has a really good point . . . even with the current setup if the AI actually used the navy to drop units into my land I'd be more likely to buid up my own fleet.
Especially if they were using Caravels to drop missionaries and spies into my coastal cities without respect to the lack of open border agreements. Plus it would help if they upgraded their ships rather than just building new, an early powerful AI navy could then (often) result in me facing a fleet of transports trying to land on my shore during the end game.
Poor me . . . lacking a large naval force of my own I could be slaughtered by the tanks coming out of those transports. When a navy of my own could have butchered several tanks at a time by sinking those ships. That experience would get me building navies pretty fast!
So I have to agree that AI use of the navy is the KEY factor in making the navy better.
Especially if they were using Caravels to drop missionaries and spies into my coastal cities without respect to the lack of open border agreements. Plus it would help if they upgraded their ships rather than just building new, an early powerful AI navy could then (often) result in me facing a fleet of transports trying to land on my shore during the end game.
Poor me . . . lacking a large naval force of my own I could be slaughtered by the tanks coming out of those transports. When a navy of my own could have butchered several tanks at a time by sinking those ships. That experience would get me building navies pretty fast!
So I have to agree that AI use of the navy is the KEY factor in making the navy better.