mods that improve AI

[swaggeringcuban]

Personally I lenjoy games where a difficulty setting means the enemies get tougher, not one that just gives the player a handicap at higher levels.

in civ4 it seems like higher levels just tie your hands with penalties so you can't advance or invade to the same degree. A better system IMO would be for the enemies to be smarter (preferably without cheating), so you can still advance far up the tech tree and wage large scale wars, but against a tougher enemy.

Are there any mods that can deliver this?

 

[Edgecrusher]

The Better AI mod comes to mind.

 

[BobTheTerrible]

The Better AI mod comes to mind.

Hahaha. Yeah, definitely check out the Better AI mod, it improves several areas of the AI, most noticeably naval invasions and offensive capabilities in general. Link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=297810

 

[Tholish]

I think its a bad idea to have a dumber AI be part of difficulty setting though. The AI should be as good as possible on all levels, and higher difficulty SHOULD come from other circumstances. I mean, if I were playing chess with a master, would I want him to handicap by playing with one fewer piece or by playing drunk? The first might be an exciting game for a while (especially if it was a queen). The second would be a game of dumb chess between two idiots.

A smarter AI is never bad. Ideally, the highest difficulty level should be an even playing field, the AI is so smart, with only the human player ever cheated for.