Elizabeth this, Peter that, Ghandi this (are AI personalities really different?)

[Aro]

Originally posted by Saurus
I think the A.I tries to win very hard and is willing to sacrifice quite a bit of its "personality" in order to manage to do this.
I have had Gandhi attack me out of the blue for instance.
Roosevelt has attacked me unprovoked several times.
A.I has personality - but is ultimately trying to win.

Maybe it's not trying to win. The Ai is just following a script: "if one of these conditions (A, B or C) happens, than attack". But win?
The AI doesn’t have any goal, unless you consider following its scripts a goal. Well, maybe it is… I know a lot of people who do exactly the same in their daily lives.

Btw, as soon the AI has real goals, we are history. ...............

But it's possible to write a script simulating this "win wish", isn't?

[Strategist83]

Originally posted by TheHateMale
It's not always a benefit to attack. To do so would mean they lose units, have to pay more maintenance every turn and leave their empire less defended on average.

As mentioned in another thread - you can win this game with a handful of cities and only defending against wars.

You can win without conducting wars only if you have a larger empire to begin with. Or, if you get lucky and the opposing civilizations for one reason or another ignore you, permitting you to skip military investments and thus gain an advantage in other fields. In general, however, I would not bet on winning without conducting war.

[Hauptman]

I think Mansa Musa's win wish is quite strong. that little bastard knows how to build a spaceship.

what I would like to see is more self preservation. doing everything it takes to not be utterly destroyed. I can knock an ai down to 1 city from beeing #1 and he still wont give me a tech for peace.... /sigh

[muflonex]

Actually, AI is a little bit nuts about building his cities in every possible place- even if it's tundra, snow, thousands of kilometres from his capital. Thank Lord that both poles are only a graphic, cause he would flood it with his settler and sexually harass the seals and penguins.

[Peter Triggs]

Originally posted by VetLegion


Do you perhaps know which file is it? I'd take a look.

Also, check out

http://modiki.apolyton.net/index.php?title=LeaderheadInfos

where Isak has documented the Civ4LeaderHeadInfos.xml file .

[VetLegion]

Thanks Peter, that's a great reference, cleared up some things for me