AI is different at different level, read the note by the developer! If the level is only different because of different resource bonus, pretty sure no one would consider this is a great game and it wouldn't be hot at all.NOOB
Your points just mean you didn't RTFM
Umm, the article you linked says basically what everyone here is saying. The AI is the same at all levels, however the bonuses it receives vary by difficulty. The "cheating" that was removed amounts to advance knowledge of the map, player unit deployments, etc.
"Much of the information cheating has been removed from the game (such as knowing where a resource is before it is discovered, sending off galleys with settlers to undiscovered lands, targeting cities with fewer defenders, etc.) Further, the heuristics it uses to make decisions, such as for diplomatic demands and declarations of war, are the same ones available to the player (such as from the power chart on the Demographics screen). However, as with all versions of Civ, the AI has production and research penalties at the lower levels and bonuses at the higher levels. The level of the bonuses are lower than they have ever been before; in fact, the AI never receives any bonuses whatsoever for building wonders - a far cry from the "free AI wonders" in Civ 1. Noble and Prince are the difficulty levels where the AI's rules are closest to the human's."
There are variations in behavior based on the specific leader, and the actual behavior of the AI is more noticeable at higher levels because it can accomplish more due to the bonuses, more starting units/settlers, etc. The AI is more aggressive at higher levels because it can build more units faster. The AI trades more techs at higher levels because it can research faster and has more techs to trade.
If you want to argue with people who have very detailed understanding of how the game works, while covering your ears and screaming "you're wrong" over and over, feel free I guess. Won't make you any more right.
You get bonus points for trying to prop up Slashdot as an authoritative source for Civ4 info, though.
Yes, they are. Settler to Warlord are the only difficulties where the AI's personality actually changes - it is friendlier, easier to please, and less likely to declare war. However, from Prince to Deity, the AI's personality does not change. The only thing that changes is the AI's research and production bonuses (and other things like happiness and maintenance reduction). They are all modifiers (for example, on Deity, AI gets +100% research and production). They have nothing to do with how the AI behaves.
AI is different at different level, read the note by the developer! If the level is only different because of different resource bonus, pretty sure no one would consider this is a great game and it wouldn't be hot at all.
JavaBenjamin said:
There is no "secret". The whole source code is open for anyone to see (heck, it's supplied with the game if you have BtS), and tons of players study it to either just learn how it works or to mod it. And as a very experienced modder (who knows the "manual" a thousand times better than you; incidentally this "manual" has changed quite a lot during the five years since your link was posted) already stated earlier, the AI is not "smarter" at all on high levels. Yeah, I know you're just trolling, though even in that in mind you're making a monumental fool of yourself here.
There are tons of reasons why the AI will attack you much less frequently on low levels. On the very lowest levels there's an artificial reduction in the attack rate, otherwise it's just stuff like relative army sizes and diplomacy that vary compared to higher levels because of the bonuses the AI gets and the penalties applied to the human. From about Noble on there is no artificial stuff like that, just raw bonuses and penalties.
