AI and gold exchange rate

[Bauser]

Have you guys ever noticed how the AI dosen't have any pollution? Also, does the AI ever use nukes on eachother?

Lastly, can anyone here guess what the price in dollars is of 1 gold? Further, on the demographs it has annual income. What determines your annual income anyway? Would that determine a nations Wealth on the "Top 7 Civilizations" chart?

[Cam]

Yes - there's lots of things that the AI gets that the human player doesn't - e.g. triremes that can brave the ocean, instant cruise missile batteries as soon as they get rocketry, etc. etc.

I wouldn't get too excited about the demographics stats - ltswww.epfl.ch/~winkler/civ2.html#Demographics should give you some background - if not for annual income.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "Top 7 Civilizations" chart. It's understood that the PowerChart relates to a tribe's score, as is the case with Top 5 cities. The calculation for scoring accounts for number of happy and content citizens, number of Wonders, barbarians, pollution, future tech' and and peace. In scenarios this is sometimes replaced by the objectives achieved.

Gold is trading at about $280 an ounce
[This message has been edited by Cam (edited April 19, 2000).]