Privateers

[Colonel Mustard]

I forgot the best unit in the game: the Privateer. Just stack it with the best ship you have at the time, and it gets more powerful as time goes on! Of course this is because the AI will attack it and get beat by your other ship...

Can someone explain this to me? In Civ3 Vanilla I used to build a Privateer once in a while just to let it be a rabbit and watch the other ships hunt it down. The AI doesn't seem to hunt them down like they used to. I am not seeing the connection between getting sunk and getting more powerful as time goes on!

[vmxa1]

They seemed to changed thing in one of the PTW patches to lower the AI's willingness to track them down. It was some what of an exploit.

I would like to see them force exposure of nationality if they are use in the owners city radius. The idea that we would not know who owned it as we see if come and go in one civs area. Knowing the AI would surely attack it if it was not its own.

I don't mind on the high seas, but no place else.