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I've mostly been playing on Noble, and at that level I find that the AI is really stupid when it comes to finishing the spaceship.
In my last game, I played as Russia and was the second most powerful civ.
Cyrus of Persia had been just a bit ahead of me all the time (the score was pretty even but he had a small advantage in technology). When he started building spaceship parts like a madman, I decided to invade him instead of trying to catch up (I doubt that would even have been possible).
So I started churning out troops while he kept finishing the spaceship even faster than I had expected.
when I had a few turns left until I felt ready to invade I sneaked a few spies into his land, and found out that he had 2 turns left on his last SS component, and I was a bit short of the money to even try to sabotage it.
Of course, I launched my invasion a bit prematurely and razed 2 of his cities the first turn, 2 more the turn after. My old-time friend Hatshepsut of Egypt immediately declared war (defensive pact) and I retaliated by nuking three of her best cities.
Anyway, the turn after my invasion, stupid Cyrus was building mech. inf instead of finishing his SS Life Support. I crushed both Hathepsut's and Cyrus' armies in the field, and continued razing his cities. After ten turns or so I had also saved some money and felt it was time to make peace and recuperate. Both Cyrus and Hathepsut paid me ridiculous tributes to make peace, and I used this money to sabotage the Life Support that he now started building again. At the same time I was amassing troops for my second invasion.
When the 10 turn peace treaty was over, Cyrus had 4 turns left on the Life Support. I invaded again with an even larger army than the first time, and this time Hatshepsut did not join him. Of course he changed to building units again instead of trying to finish it. In the end I managed to wipe him out except for some junk cities on small islands, and I won a score victory.
Is the AI this stupid when it comes to finishing spaceships on higher difficulties too? Cyrus was one turn away from winning the game. He would have won if he had just continued building his spaceship instead of switching to some lousy mech. inf!
I have also won a space race in another game by just declaring war at a superior opponent that would have finished it faster. Instead the opponent invaded me and I started to slowly lose cities. I lost perhaps 1/4 of my cities, but the rest of them finished the spaceship in time and got me the win. This opponent would also have won if they had just ignored me and kept building their spaceship.
In my last game, I played as Russia and was the second most powerful civ.
Cyrus of Persia had been just a bit ahead of me all the time (the score was pretty even but he had a small advantage in technology). When he started building spaceship parts like a madman, I decided to invade him instead of trying to catch up (I doubt that would even have been possible).
So I started churning out troops while he kept finishing the spaceship even faster than I had expected.
when I had a few turns left until I felt ready to invade I sneaked a few spies into his land, and found out that he had 2 turns left on his last SS component, and I was a bit short of the money to even try to sabotage it.
Of course, I launched my invasion a bit prematurely and razed 2 of his cities the first turn, 2 more the turn after. My old-time friend Hatshepsut of Egypt immediately declared war (defensive pact) and I retaliated by nuking three of her best cities.
Anyway, the turn after my invasion, stupid Cyrus was building mech. inf instead of finishing his SS Life Support. I crushed both Hathepsut's and Cyrus' armies in the field, and continued razing his cities. After ten turns or so I had also saved some money and felt it was time to make peace and recuperate. Both Cyrus and Hathepsut paid me ridiculous tributes to make peace, and I used this money to sabotage the Life Support that he now started building again. At the same time I was amassing troops for my second invasion.
When the 10 turn peace treaty was over, Cyrus had 4 turns left on the Life Support. I invaded again with an even larger army than the first time, and this time Hatshepsut did not join him. Of course he changed to building units again instead of trying to finish it. In the end I managed to wipe him out except for some junk cities on small islands, and I won a score victory.
Is the AI this stupid when it comes to finishing spaceships on higher difficulties too? Cyrus was one turn away from winning the game. He would have won if he had just continued building his spaceship instead of switching to some lousy mech. inf!
I have also won a space race in another game by just declaring war at a superior opponent that would have finished it faster. Instead the opponent invaded me and I started to slowly lose cities. I lost perhaps 1/4 of my cities, but the rest of them finished the spaceship in time and got me the win. This opponent would also have won if they had just ignored me and kept building their spaceship.
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