Rant from relative Noob about Civ

[777]

To echo what's been said before, don't feel bad about dropping the difficulty level down a notch or two. Civ is a huge, complex game, and it's impossible to understand all of the mechanics all at once. It takes many games to learn them.

This is kind of interesting point. First three levels. Chieftain, warlord, noble (right?) are quite easy and AI doesn't get bonus. But those are damn lame levels. If you want AI to play bit better you have to go to prince (where I am, ehem ) and AI really gets your arse.

 

[JujuLautre]

A cheating AI ain't fun. Why can't a smart AI be done without cheating? It's so discouraging that I loose even though I play better.

It's a great game, don't give it up.

the AI does not cheat, it gets bonuses (like a handicap, thing which exists in vaious games already).

And considering that lots of computer scientists took dozens of years to make an AI capable of defeating the Chess world champion, I hope you realize that making a smart AI for Civ will take even more time