Ok, I've now started 4 games, Aggressive AI, on Monarch difficulty. Here's what I don't understand.
I'm taking Financial civs, and in my last game, due to being whipped in the previous 3 games, I went with Hannibal (Fin/Cha). I took this as a good financial, with good militaristic trait on top. I spam cottages early wherever makes sense, and hook up specials as soon as possible to generate additional income. I get up to 5 cities fairly quickly, and can only keep tech slider at 60-70% with those cities (this is pre-markets, grocers, etc). But the other AIs have as many as 8-10 cities, double what I have - the top 3 civs have 10 cities each, and they are Isabella, Hatty, and Ghandi - none of which are financial or even organized. How are they even able to run so many cities without financial or organized, and still be even remotely competitive in tech? And they've got a larger military as well.
Is Aggressive AI simply that? Or is it possible that they got other "bonuses"? Four games on Agg AI is a small sample, but I just can't reconcile how non financial civs can have so large an empire and still be near the top of the tech pile when I'm running a financial civ, only half the cities, and struggling to keep up in tech.
I'm taking Financial civs, and in my last game, due to being whipped in the previous 3 games, I went with Hannibal (Fin/Cha). I took this as a good financial, with good militaristic trait on top. I spam cottages early wherever makes sense, and hook up specials as soon as possible to generate additional income. I get up to 5 cities fairly quickly, and can only keep tech slider at 60-70% with those cities (this is pre-markets, grocers, etc). But the other AIs have as many as 8-10 cities, double what I have - the top 3 civs have 10 cities each, and they are Isabella, Hatty, and Ghandi - none of which are financial or even organized. How are they even able to run so many cities without financial or organized, and still be even remotely competitive in tech? And they've got a larger military as well.
Is Aggressive AI simply that? Or is it possible that they got other "bonuses"? Four games on Agg AI is a small sample, but I just can't reconcile how non financial civs can have so large an empire and still be near the top of the tech pile when I'm running a financial civ, only half the cities, and struggling to keep up in tech.
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