Is the AI cheating even on the lowest difficulty?

[Veriaqa]

I never play the game below prince difficulty. But yesterday, just for fun, I play on the lowest difficulty. I play the TSL Earth, with only 1 ai. I play Gitarja and the AI play John Curtin. After 10 turn or so Curtin declared surprise war on me and he attacked me with endless warriors, archers, and war chariots. At one point I counted that they have 5 warriors, 4 archers, 2 war chariots, 2 scouts, and 1 builder. And I already killed some of his warriors and archers.

I don't think the AI are that good, so is the AI cheating?

 

[Aristos]

Honestly, sounds impossible. Are you sure of the numbers and turn time you are reporting?

In fact, at the lowest diff it is you that is "cheating", the player is the one receiving the bonuses there...

 

[AmazonQueen]

Given that they start on seperate land masses on TSL Earth I'm surprised they'd even met at turn 10. What speed was the game played at?

 

[Veriaqa]

To answer the question it's online speed. And yes that was impossible for Australia to have that much units so early in the game. It wasn't 10 turns exactly. But i'm sure it was below 20. Because I'm not even have my second city yet.

 

[seankhan]

it does cheat from time to time,i remember a

I never play the game below prince difficulty. But yesterday, just for fun, I play on the lowest difficulty. I play the TSL Earth, with only 1 ai. I play Gitarja and the AI play John Curtin. After 10 turn or so Curtin declared surprise war on me and he attacked me with endless warriors, archers, and war chariots. At one point I counted that they have 5 warriors, 4 archers, 2 war chariots, 2 scouts, and 1 builder. And I already killed some of his warriors and archers.

I don't think the AI are that good, so is the AI cheating?

the ai uses one turn building,as you go up the levels it becomes constant,so low level its rare but possible,you where just unlucky i guess.

 

[Leyrann]

Well, according to modders, who have access to (this part of) the code, AI actually gets penalties below prince.

 

[WillowBrook]

Was it an ancient era start? If it was a later ers start, the AI (and you) start with several units, not only warrior and settler.

 

[Aristos]

If online speed and 20+ turns, it is possible, even with penalties at lower diffs.

 

[AmazonQueen]

If online speed and 20+ turns, it is possible, even with penalties at lower diffs.

I think this is the answer. Online speed and maybe it was a little longer than the OP remembers. I play Gitarja a lot on that map and she has 1 small island, Curtin has Australia which has plenty of sheep, cattle and horses

 

[Ogro]

Strange. Perhaps it's a civ 5 thing, but in the lowest difficult the AI isn't supposed to declare war against the human player, least yet a surprise one. Were you using any MODS?

 

[liv]

It sounds worse than deity so maybe you accidentally picked the highest difficulty???

 

[Veriaqa]

It's ancient era. And I didn't use any mods. And yes Curtin declared a surprise war against me.

 

[Ryika]

I see two possibilities here:

- You're misremembering things / overplaying what actually happened
- You've run into a situation where your opponent was extremely lucky and managed to get ahead far further than they were supposed to be

Whichever it was, it seems clear that the outcome is not based on heavy AI cheating.

 

[Rotomagus]

it does cheat from time to time,i remember a



the ai uses one turn building,as you go up the levels it becomes constant,so low level its rare but possible,you where just unlucky i guess.

can you elaborate on that one turn building please?

btw, I've seen the 'AI' put out more than 1 unit per round in attacked cities. At low levels. Cheat it is...

Is there a mod that brings in a difficulty level, in which AI and HI do not get any bonusses?

 

[Nigel_Tufnel2]

Is there a mod that brings in a difficulty level, in which AI and HI do not get any bonusses?

The Strategist Difficulty mod may do some of what you want, check it out.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1287950181

 

[Aristos]

Strange. Perhaps it's a civ 5 thing, but in the lowest difficult the AI isn't supposed to declare war against the human player, least yet a surprise one. Were you using any MODS?

This is Civ 5. We could clearly see the code for this in the dll source. We cannot say the same for Civ 6 as we don't have the source yet, but reports of DoWs in lower difficulties clearly suggest that they got rid of such an idiotic handicap for the AI.

 

[Slip de Garcon]

can you elaborate on that one turn building please?

btw, I've seen the 'AI' put out more than 1 unit per round in attacked cities. At low levels. Cheat it is...

Is there a mod that brings in a difficulty level, in which AI and HI do not get any bonusses?

Certainly at King, once the AI has archery it will happily produce one archer per turn ad infinitum if you are attacking a city.

 

[liv]

AI often have a lot of cash and may buy units.

 

[Hans Castorp]

One question. TSL start would mean that he would need Shipbulding to be able to attack you at all with land units. I never play online speed, so I don't know if that is feasible in the timeframe you mention. The AI does tend to beeline that tech when in an island starting situation, but it would mean that the AI would have to be in the Classical era before you were under attack. Was this the case?

 

[AmazonQueen]

One question. TSL start would mean that he would need Shipbulding to be able to attack you at all with land units. I never play online speed, so I don't know if that is feasible in the timeframe you mention. The AI does tend to beeline that tech when in an island starting situation, but it would mean that the AI would have to be in the Classical era before you were under attack. Was this the case?

I forgot that.
Found first city on coast, tech Sailing, build 2 galleys for the eureka, tech Shipbuilding and build army whilst teching it
I've beelined shipbuilding when playing Indonesia on that map because she has no room to expand w/o it but I'm surprised the AI with a fairly large island to settle would do it and it seems very quick.