Is it me or is AI+ on R&F just making every civ fight each other ?

[Tunnah]

I'm on my 3rd game in a row that I've noticed this. The last 2 I didn't notice it until quite late in the game, as I got more than halfway through and realised..nobody had even created a wonder except me. Then when I got a Spy, I noticed the AI had 1, maybe 2 districts per city. That and most enemies stopped building new cities, even though they had great spots and space around em.

I'm playing a game at the mo to keep an eye on it, and on Demi-God (1 below Deity, Smoother Difficulty), and on turn 50 none of the AI have even built a district. I'm already starting to outpace the AI because literally all of them are fighting each other (and leaving me alone).

Am I having just a weird run of plays, or is this the direction AI+ is going ? It's no fun realising you're gonna win in Classical era!

EDIT: Y'all can ignore this, I think I was just misreading the game. The AI was building a bit of an army to protect itself, now I've seen it a few times I was the one in the wrong.

 

[ambelgra]

I think as long as the warmonger penalties stay super high and denouncements are flying left and right, nations stay at war.

 

[Tunnah]

I felt like since R&F, war has been happening a lot less. I actually edited warmonger and war weariness to bring it down more, as I had one game where not once did I enter into war. I put it down to being enough space (I increase map size about 6 per direction, which adds a substantial area), but even when the map became full nobody would ever declare war on me.

But with AI+ I noticed some civs wouldn't create more cities (in 1 case, Mapuche had 6 settlers just..hanging around. He had amazing land next to him, which bordered a coast. Amenities weren't an issue and we were allies). In a weird instance, the more war-focused civs would build nothing but horses. I'm talking literally no space in their empire, and they had zero money. But just created more horses lol.

I seen that mod that came out the other day to fix the typo, I'm about to give that a try as I've now got 2 out of 5 civs who are only producing 1 unit, and just filling up their land. Having 7k strength is impressive and all, but I really don't wanna have to Hiroshima a horsey

 

[ambelgra]

I felt like since R&F, war has been happening a lot less. I actually edited warmonger and war weariness to bring it down more, as I had one game where not once did I enter into war. I put it down to being enough space (I increase map size about 6 per direction, which adds a substantial area), but even when the map became full nobody would ever declare war on me.

But with AI+ I noticed some civs wouldn't create more cities (in 1 case, Mapuche had 6 settlers just..hanging around. He had amazing land next to him, which bordered a coast. Amenities weren't an issue and we were allies). In a weird instance, the more war-focused civs would build nothing but horses. I'm talking literally no space in their empire, and they had zero money. But just created more horses lol.

I seen that mod that came out the other day to fix the typo, I'm about to give that a try as I've now got 2 out of 5 civs who are only producing 1 unit, and just filling up their land. Having 7k strength is impressive and all, but I really don't wanna have to Hiroshima a horsey

I feel exact opposite. AI is determined to grab every tile, no matter what.

I swear the AI opponents can conjure up units and gold whenever they want. I had a war with Shaka once, and he was losing badly, I was basically going to wipe him out. In the peace deal, he gave me all his gold and all his gold per turn. So after the deal was done, I clicked him, to see his diplomat screen and he's got 120 gold and like, 30 gold per turn. How sway??

 

[Tunnah]

Can we swap copies then please mate! Don't get me wrong, I love being left alone in the beginning, to get that foothold that determines a lot of your future strategy..but damn, it's like I don't exist! I thought maybe it's because I'm too far ahead and they focus on what they can manage. Or because I focus on trading and they don't wanna damage that, but sometimes it just feels like..am I not pretty enough to invade

 

[klail]

I never get declared on either. Using AI+. Going to try a game without it.