Luck or Flaw

[bdemz]

Just wanted some opinions on AI.

Played two games since patch.

1) Large Map...Island Plates...King...Australia
- I started going for culture or science win. Eliminated Montezuma pretty easily since he was claiming land near my area. I noticed Rome to my south and he was building all wonders and claiming alot of artists and writers. Beating me to culture. Invaded and took over his territory with little to no resistence there. He even built a few encampments with all buildings but little to no untis. by collecting all of the wonders and art. I won a culture victory

2) Large Map...Continents...Emperor...Cyrus
- I wanted a domination victory so just spawning immortals and encampments. Eliminated China...easy. then started to quest to get the others. AI offered no resistance what so ever. even as they could see what I was doing, just denounced. They had very large cities with lots of area but no defense. I saw Kongo was going for culture, but never changed his approach as I just started taking capitals. Won dominaton

Is there any point to keep playing? Does the AI get harder (more thinking) on higher difficulty? or does high difficulty just give them more resources to start off.

Thanks

 

[Mr. Shadows]

The AI gets more starting units and bonuses as you turn up the difficulty. Indeed, the ai frequently does inexplicably stupid things. This is the most commonly heard complaint about the game on this site. If you do a little digging you'll find this subject is constantly in discussion here. Once you get to a certain point you have to either start playing MP games, or compete for the fastest finish time to keep things interesting.

 

[liv]

King is an OK difficulty if you want to explore and build an empire and not really conquer. But if you have a conquering mindset you should up your difficulty.

 

[Rosty K]

I have an impression, that rushing the neighbor makes any difficulty easy.

 

[Tech Osen]

AI not upgrading units or even maintaining an army at all is a common issue in the late game.

 

[bdemz]

I guess my question is...does the AI make better decisions the higher up you go? or do they just get more resources to start and still make dumb mistakes. (unprotected settlers and workers...not upgrading units...not prepping defenses)

Thanks

 

[liv]

They do not make better decisions. They get small combat advantages and they get faster at developing so you will meet more resistance. On Emperor they start with two settlers and more military so they can be more aggressive in the beginning and you will have to take that into account