Teams in multiplayer.

[RobotOcelot]

So I had some friends by Civ 5 recently and wanting to play with them is nice when we get to play as a team. However, to make it fair, I thought, we put the AI's on teams as well. For example 2v2v2v2 etc.

After playing a few games the problem I see is the AI's don't actually play as a team, besides combined research. If one declares war, the other doesn't do anything. If one gets attacked, there is no help involved.

I know I've already answered my question and this is just more of a rant now, but what are the point of teams in this game? There is no sense of co-operative play against a hard foe when all it ends up resulting in is a 2v1.

The single player is still great and I enjoy it, but I suppose boils down to AI problems like a lot of issues.

Moderator Action: Moved to MP.

 

[nefloyd]

Give the AI more players on its team. When I have played with a buddy we usually set it at least 3:2 or 2:1 against us

 

[ahawk]

This is not far from how Civ 4 played, except there the AIs fought together sufficiently, partially because they wouldn't get in each other's way nearly as much, since you could stack infinitely.

Stacking has really been the problem with the AI's ability to wage war. A single AI alone struggles to put units in the right order of march to send off at me, let alone several AI's on a team trying to coordinate and not block each other.