Is there something wrong with Russia's AI?

[Krieger66]

They always seem to do poorly in the mid-to-late game, being behind technologically and not having a great economy. In my current game, for the last few hundred turns, they've been losing 60+ gold each turn.

Is this intended or did something go wrong in their programming?

 

[PhilBowles]

In my experience Russia nearly always does well throughout the game, and I've seen this reported by others as well. She once beat me to a science victory, and was by that point the game's dominant power militarily as well.

 

[Moriarte]

In my experience Russia nearly always does well throughout the game, and I've seen this reported by others as well. She once beat me to a science victory, and was by that point the game's dominant power militarily as well.

Second that. Fearsome lady with warmonger attitude. Only once i saw her defeat, she had a tundra start though . What difficulty level do you play, Krieger? I noticed some civs have massive advantages against everyone on levels like Deity. Like Spain, which starts with two scouts..

 

[GreekIrish]

She has good AI, but she doesn't have a good starting bias, so that might have something to do with it.

 

[Krieger66]

Second that. Fearsome lady with warmonger attitude. Only once i saw her defeat, she had a tundra start though . What difficulty level do you play, Krieger? I noticed some civs have massive advantages against everyone on levels like Deity. Like Spain, which starts with two scouts..

It was on prince difficulty. And I had start bias turned off.

She had a great army for the first half of the game too, but by the renaissance I had six times her military, we were at the same tech level, and she was losing a lot of gold per turn(she didn't have any city state allies I could see either).

 

[zyx]

Having too many units sitting around doing nothing but costing a lot of upkeep, which inevitably leads to bankruptcy is common at prince and below. I am not sure at which difficulty level the AI gets a huge gold bonus to overcome this problem; could be emperor; maybe king; at immortal or deity the problem is that the AI has a lot of money but doesn't use it - if it did, those levels would be hard to win.

 

[gozpel]

Russia is indeed an strange civ, most of my games with them, they attack me a couple of times, but stay friendly after the wars.

I never seen them in economic troubles, it's the other way around, they have huge gpt and a solid bank. But this is on Prince and up.

 

[smallfish]

She's one of those few candidates I'll put as "likely to go runaway" if in game.

Sometimes someone else will get the drop on her, whether through out-settling her prime estates or coalition wars, and that's when Catherine tends to do poorly.

 

[black213]

For me she always puts up a real challenge.. I've even lost twice because of Catherine and her space ships.

 

[Krieger66]

Could it be having random personalities on that causes it in some of my games?

 

[ense7en]

Could it be having random personalities on that causes it in some of my games?

Quite possibly. It tends to be a disadvantage for the AI as they are no longer playing how they should be.

I do enjoy random personalities because it makes them much less predictable, but it doesn't really hellp them out.

 

[smallfish]

Random personalities give you things like Warmonger Expansionistic Gandhi (who covets your lands) and Cultural OCC Moctezuma, and Runaway Attila/Augustus/Sejong...

Yeah, not really that different the last example, but the first two should give you an idea.

 

[Krieger66]

Random personalities give you things like Warmonger Expansionistic Gandhi (who covets your lands) and Cultural OCC Moctezuma, and Runaway Attila/Augustus/Sejong...

Yeah, not really that different the last example, but the first two should give you an idea.

Some of these sound like they might work out well though...doesn't Gandhi have a way to deal with unhappiness from more cities? And some leaders seem like they would do better using different strategies.