Why AI so loony?

[smallfish]

Not really overbearingly ********, but pathetically predictable with several easily exploited flaws. That should be true on every level--the AI doesn't change with the difficulty, its civs just get more starting bonuses.

Somewhat - aggressive behavior notches up a lot, and with more units, means more fun. Anything else would be boring.

 

[omnishakira]

moctezuma is probably the worst AI of the game

 

[binhthuy71]

moctezuma is probably the worst AI of the game

I've been belatedly parsing through the game's xml files. Monty scores high on both boldness and aggressiveness. I still prefer him as a neighbor to Alex, Otto, or Oda.

 

[PostConsumerWat]

It must just be challenging to program the AI tactics without stacking units... but, I am guessing.

 

[Callonia]

moctezuma is probably the worst AI of the game

I won't say he's that bad, its prince difficulty, and he's fielding infantry and i was fielding infantry only to recently upgrade em to mech infantry for free. He actually managed to take stockholm city early ingame and it was in my way of expansion so i took it from monty.

Anyways, I can understand that Monty likes to fight. But I thought they respected number of soldiers, I just understand it don't matter now XD

And picking a fight with world's biggest power can be possible imho, if you see some excessive outlying cities on fringes of the world power you can easily start a war to pare the world power of them while it's busy. I have done stuff like that.

Aztecs did have a pretty decent navy but it split up into two, went up north to fight with my navy and went south to shell and sink geneva's ships and then flee in fear after a couple of rocket artilleries of mine showed up and after aztecs fled, i gifted those two units to Geneva.

Generally, aztecs made a couple of bad decisions, bullying my pets. And then splitting its navy up into two. it had wooden ships and iron clads and bunch of modern ships as well.

 

[compwiz1202]

I nuked Monty into the Apocalypse for the achievement last night Crazy that it took three to wipe out his city health

 

[King Kalmah]

Pretty sure historical leaders didn't roleplay in their time.

He means have the AI play the game as their real world counter part would have played it...

Like how Aztecs were always war hungry or how Russia was always trying to take up land...

Toku was an isolationist,Gandi was a sissy...yada yada...in CIV they are just "other" players...they made the AI act too much like Humans..."yeah we have to win or die trying"

Atleast in Civ4 you could tell who was who even before the crap hit the fan,,,

 

[Ex.plode]

In my most recent game I spawned within 10 tiles of Ghengis AND Monty


They followed their stereotypes to and DoW'd me quick lol

 

[Callonia]

My impression is that the farther a protected CS is from your lands the more likely it is to be bullied.

Just noticed this comment so I decided to show where geneva is.

It's circled in red.

Spoiler :

Its quite distant from monty borders unless monty somehow have invisible ninjas hanging out in front of geneva. xD

 

[knighterrant81]

Makes sense to me - hey, I can get some cheap gold without any diplomatic repercussions by bullying this city-state. If Germany was going to kill me they would have done it by now so why not take a chance...

Monty gambled. He just lost