Man the AI cheats BAD

[EddyG17]

The AI is like god or maybe santa, you can't hide.
I think pivatiers are to weak,
this is the way it should be:
Pivatiers should be so strong it is the best option, but there is one down side it can be attacked by all civs, so maybe the much more expesive and better frigate is better.

maybe they had a golden age and were on mobilization, man i though i had discovered something important

 

[akillias]

Well the AI is dumb, on Monarch i have been able to destroy a stronger opponent just by camping on his military ressource. LOL we have agreed a passage agreement 5 turn before.

 

[unscratchedfoot]

Originally posted by akillias
Well the AI is dumb, on Monarch i have been able to destroy a stronger opponent just by camping on his military ressource. LOL we have agreed a passage agreement 5 turn before.

Maybe its funny but what's more funny is that you will never get another passage deal with other AI's. Well, if you play on a higher skill level anyways.

 

[TheNiceOne]

Originally posted by dariusII
There have been many threads debating whether the AI cheats.

There are two things that I would place under the "AI Cheat" list, because they really bug me.

Both of your two things are essentially part of the one big AI cheat: The fact that the AI knows everything on the map, including all present and future resources and the position of all units.

I have learnt to live with it, and don't care much about it, but I would doubtless enjoy the game a lot more, if the AI instead could make intelligent and informed guesses as a human player can.

But since such an intelligent AI is so far off (I don't expect it for CIV4 either), I think an AI with full knowledge is better than a totally stupid AI. I just wish it wouldn't use its knowledge so blatantly as your privateer example, or so stupid as when it marches past your well defended city towards an undefended city that it cannot reach before you have reinforced that city using your railroads (and bombarded the stack into oblivion).

 

[The Last Conformist]

Originally posted by akillias
Well the AI is dumb, on Monarch i have been able to destroy a stronger opponent just by camping on his military ressource. LOL we have agreed a passage agreement 5 turn before.

That's funny. What's deppressive is you can defeat a stronger AI civ with equal (or better) units just by superior tactics. In particular, the AI tends to waste huge numbers on troops on pointless static defenses.