See, that's exactly my point. I don't want to read a thread posted by someone who's familiar enough with the coding of the game to read the AI's diplomacy algorithms to understand what's going on in the game. I want to understand what's going on in the game by playing the game myself or by reading a thread posted by someone who's familiar with playing the game. In a game of Civ I don't want to beat algorithms or mechanics, I want to beat Monty, Lizzy and Cathy. And strangely enough even the Civ V lead designer Jon Shafer acknowledged this in his recent blog about Enemy at the Gates stating that even the best and most brilliant AI algorithm is pointless if the AI behavior does not make sense for the player... Dude...
Its funny how the guy says things about "human-like behavior" and "same thing players would do". And when you point out its not the case and Ai does its best to get labeled as insane, he says "you just don't understand its algorithms".
In fact, i think many of us do, and some us can easily abuse it. There are even working mods that fix it. Yet he keeps defending blemished product with vigor of a well paid PR manager.