Why doesn't the AI capture barbarian camps?

[Bridger]

I just started a new game and watched some AI archers kill off a barbarian camp, then next turn they walk away and let me have it? I've also noticed that when I set scouts on auto-explore (after I'm done revealing everywhere around my starting zone) the scouts will just find camps and pillage them. Presumably the AI is leaving those uncaptured too.

Is that a vanilla/VEM bug? Or is it by design?

 

[Ahriman]

Most of the time they capture camps. I don't think there are any VEM-specific changes here.

 

[Thalassicus]

Most stuff with AI unit movement and combat is coded in the game core only Firaxis has access to, so there's nothing we can do about this.

 

[Devilize]

I don't think I've ever seen AI kill and capture a barbarian camp, wish Fraxis would step up or let the public fix these kinda issues.

 

[tlaurila]

I've seen them take camps. Also those "City State wants you to remove camp" quests does quite often end with someone else destroying it (often the CS itself).

 

[Dunkah]

I have seen both. They don't usually last very long after a CS has asked for them to be removed.

Perhaps the AI is killing off the barbs for experience and waiting for the declaration from the CS before capturing.