Just played my first post-1.52 patch game, and the AI seems to really have taken a dislike to me. 4 (out of 12) different civs all went straight past usable land to box me in before I could build my third city (this was on noble), one travelled over a screen's worth to do so (although much of that was tundra, so it sort of makes sense). After getting irritated and giving myself nukes and modern armor in the WorldBuilder (due to there being no 'stab them graphically in the face' option) I retired to check the expansion patterns. Sure enough, on the rest of the continent expansion tended to grow outward in a circle from the capital, but these civs dumped their second or third cities just outside my borders and worked back from there.
Do I need to change my tactics to total warmonger now to compete, or was I just randomly incredibly unlucky?
On a side note, the free unit or so that the AI gets at the beginning of the game seems a little overpowered on marathon, where it's ~30 turns that they have an extra scouting unit. I can deal with that though - it's the concerted aggressive city placement that was annoying.
Do I need to change my tactics to total warmonger now to compete, or was I just randomly incredibly unlucky?
On a side note, the free unit or so that the AI gets at the beginning of the game seems a little overpowered on marathon, where it's ~30 turns that they have an extra scouting unit. I can deal with that though - it's the concerted aggressive city placement that was annoying.
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