AI: I'll die before I give you any techs!

[Cerbykins]

It's a given that the AI conspires and cheats...
We need only state it's 'preferential' trade style as an example

[Jethro83]

I wouldn't give them everything I've got once they've lowered my empire to one crumbling city, so I wouldn't expect them to do the same. AI or no. Oblivion is inevitable at that point, seeing as how the same or another civ may declare war at any second and deliver the killing blow.

Happened to the Arabs in my current game as Rome. I levelled them down to one city. They refused to give everything they had (but they surprisingly had a fair bit of gold they WERE willing to offer, which I took). A few turns later, France declared war and wiped them out on the same turn.

[Cerbykins]

I wouldn't give -anything-, but then - I'm human
Plus, I would do other things like quitting when it got scary a.k.a. hard

[:) Smiley]

Is Civ3 still like Civ2 where there are essentially 2 players in every game- the human and all the AI, or is there some independence among them?

[Tillur]

I hate how if your in war and you destroyed some of thier cities they won't acknowlegde you. And if they do they offer peace treaty for your peace treaty and a tech one time they even wanted like 100 gold in addition. I was so pissed I just tore down like 10 more of their cities. then they wanted a treaty and I said I wanted 50 gold a tech and the treaty and me give just the peace treaty, and he actually accepted. Because he only had like 10 more cities and I had more troops marching his way. I ripped them off so bad I couldn't help goingright back to war with them after a couple turns and doing another treay for a tech and the treatys.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Smiley
Is Civ3 still like Civ2 where there are essentially 2 players in every game- the human and all the AI, or is there some independence among them?

In civ3 the AI will kill off other civs and become very large given a chance. The AI is suppose to not "gang" up, but in the end it has little choice

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Tillur
I hate how if your in war and you destroyed some of thier cities they won't acknowlegde you. And if they do they offer peace treaty for your peace treaty and a tech one time they even wanted like 100 gold in addition. I was so pissed I just tore down like 10 more of their cities. then they wanted a treaty and I said I wanted 50 gold a tech and the treaty and me give just the peace treaty, and he actually accepted. Because he only had like 10 more cities and I had more troops marching his way. I ripped them off so bad I couldn't help goingright back to war with them after a couple turns and doing another treay for a tech and the treatys.

They had to tigten up the AI to prevent the exploiting of demaning cities for peace. People where going to war and demanding cities for peace and then doing it again.
They went a bit far, but I don't see how they could avoid it.

The AI just can not evalute properly and does not have a history to consider.

[Chemical Ollie]

I've seen it a lot. I guess the role of the AI is to make your life as hard as possible, not to survive himself at any cost.