Is the AI Stupid or Just Desperate?

[rtfox68]

I was playing a game last night and had severely outclassed the AI in affinity.

I had 18 Harmony, 10 Purity and 10 Supremacy to the nearest with a 5/4/?

As I was gettng ready to building the Mind Flower, the AI kept attacking me with very weak units that I annilated with some ranged units.. most of the time with just one shot each.

The AI went from cooperating to war for no reason... At one point in time, another civ from accross a massive map declared war on me. It took nearly 20 turns for the first unit to show up. That is kind of stupid...

To me, the AI agression needs to be fixed.

 

[Bandobras Took]

The AI is usually stupid. That's how it's been in every single Civ game ever.

 

[rtfox68]

the constant stupid warfare on the hardest 2 levels is just dumb.

I have people I am at war with who have never sent a single troop my way.. but won't do peaace.

 

[Jenarie]

I've only played a couple Apollo level games but it seems like the AI is much quicker to declare war. And especially if you look like you are going to win then everyone will pile on. Which actually makes sense in a way but is very annoying especially when they don't really have a chance of stopping you.

 

[EpicWestern]

I was playing a game last night and had severely outclassed the AI in affinity.

I had 18 Harmony, 10 Purity and 10 Supremacy to the nearest with a 5/4/?

On Apollo it should be very rare that the AI is that far behind.

Don't get me wrong though the AI needs a lot of work especially in coordinating attacks. At least melee boats make it more difficult for human players to defend. In vanilla BE you could just snipe embarked melee units while your cities sit at zero health.

 

[CaptMikeP]

Well in terms of naval warfare the AI has been completely mastered. In terms of land wars, they're better. Their tank units and use of affinity unique units has increased and could pose a challenge. Their use of rangers is also a bit of a pain, but otherwise land wars are still easy once you get an army of GOLEMS and an air wing to ranged attack them into oblivion.

 

[jozef57]

i have no answer just got a messages that i declared waR ON 3 OTHER CIVS. NO IDEAR HOW IT COULD HAPPEN 1 TURN BEFORE I WAS ALLIED WITH 2 OF THEM AND COOPERATING WITH THE OTHER, I AM NOT ALIED WITH A CIV THAT DECLARED WAR ON THEM NO IDEAR WHY IT HAPPEND I CAN NOT FIND IT, AND I AM NOW I THE GREAT POSITION BEING AT WAR WITH CIVSA THAT WHERE MY BEST FRIENDS ONE TURN BEFORE?/ AN IDEAR ANYONE LOL. AS FOR THE WAR WITHOUT ANY UNITS COMMING MY WAY I HAPPEND TO ME TWICE

 

[Martin_K]

your caps lock key seems to be stuck

anyway, i think the problem is that the two people you are allied with declared war on each other. so you automatically declared war on both since you are allied with both. one of them was probably also allied with a third party, so you automatically declared on them, too.

the lesson is simple - don't ally with more than 1 faction (or avoid alliances altogether and only go up to cooperative level) until this mechanic gets changed (or fixed - if it's a bug and not working as intended)

 

[rtfox68]

the lesson is simple - don't ally with more than 1 faction (or avoid alliances altogether and only go up to cooperative level) until this mechanic gets changed (or fixed - if it's a bug and not working as intended)

I never ally with any faction... Best way to avoid spending resources unnecessarily

 

[CaptMikeP]

i have no answer just got a messages that i declared waR ON 3 OTHER CIVS. NO IDEAR HOW IT COULD HAPPEN 1 TURN BEFORE I WAS ALLIED WITH 2 OF THEM AND COOPERATING WITH THE OTHER, I AM NOT ALIED WITH A CIV THAT DECLARED WAR ON THEM NO IDEAR WHY IT HAPPEND I CAN NOT FIND IT, AND I AM NOW I THE GREAT POSITION BEING AT WAR WITH CIVSA THAT WHERE MY BEST FRIENDS ONE TURN BEFORE?/ AN IDEAR ANYONE LOL. AS FOR THE WAR WITHOUT ANY UNITS COMMING MY WAY I HAPPEND TO ME TWICE

something similar happened to me too, I was neutral with both factions, X declares war and Y and I declare war on X. I had to go to sanctioned to prevent that.

 

[jozef57]

i think you are right lol. i did not think of this posibillity, i was just flabbergasted lol. anyway this game needs a lot of fixing , still i love it to bits, and yes the caps lock was stuck lol. need to stop eating in while using comp