Interesting AI decision.

[Xanikk999]

I am playing a huge monarch game as the Maya and around the beginning of the Industrial ages something strange happened.

First off notice that one of my rivals the Hittites only have 1 city. Their capital was in such a food poor start they were never able to make any settlers throughout the whole game. Once they got to size 3 they would starve the next turn.

Edit: Actually I was wrong. My old screen shot was on a babylonian city. Nevertheless they still ONLY have one city! They did have more before but still they made a dumb decision as you can see in this thread.

Now comes the interesting thing the Hittites just did...

Why would the hittites declare war on the mongols when their only city is completely surrounded by mongol territory? I expect the hittites to be wiped out in a couple turns because of this.

What could of caused the AI to make such a terrible decision?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

If they only had a settler, and there was no other land available, they would just drop one down wherever, thus causing war with the Mongols.

 

[vmxa]

I would not expect they dropped a town and triggered the war. You can tell from the replay though. If they did not use a settler, they just followed the games logic and combined with the rng it came up war.

I once played a game where I left one nation as OCC and owned all they land. Had modern units and they where way way back, but they declared.

The fact is they have declare at some point to get any land, if though it figures to not work for them. I have seen them do this mnany times.

 

[GamezRule]

They would rather die with honor then be disgraced for not trying.

 

[Xanikk999]

Well the survived for a couple turns suprisingly. Even more suprising it was not the mongols who wiped them out, it was the babylonians!

 

[dominatr]

had this happen, and posted it in the interesting screen shots thread

 

[iEspionage]

Irrelevant question to Dominatr, I have a graphics mod that changes the terrain to water colours, such as yourself, but my borders haven't changed, yours look like thick colours, mine still look like the top of castle walls.. if that made sense.. is there another version I could update mine with?

 

[dominatr]

two seperate things, theres the watercolor terrain, and theres the solid borders graphic edit thing. Not sure if i remember, but search bar should point you in the right direction