Psycho nut bastard AIs

[LordGreyhawk]

Originally posted by Buster13

e.g. -

peaking of the worker thing...they seem to magically disappear after capture...I've never been able to chase them down...even though they don't go any faster than artillery or infantry...and there are no railroads to rush them back to Mother Russia.

I think I have seen missing worker phenomena (post-patch) - they may be
disbanding workers that they cannot get
out of your territory to deny you the
ability to recapture them.

This makes sense when combined with their proclivity to
pillage your improvements.

[SeanK]

Originally posted by Mokael


I yet to see that. In my first post-patch game I had two neighboring civs race through my territory to the only empty spot on my end - a narrow peninnsula with nothing but couple of forests and hills, tens-of-grids away from their own Empires. Of course, I waited until the last moment to block the peninnsula. While they were travelling back and forth, I've planned couple cities in their back-yard

I was referring in my original post to the initial land-grab part of the game, when the civs are first defining their nations. Once most of the land has been taken, the AI still looks for empty nooks and crannies to fill, usually at the outskirts of MY territory, and they have to pass through it to get there.

[Jumping Choya]

I had a very mysterious post-patch experience.

The French were Gracious towards me, mainly because I gave them a load of gifts to fight the Germans (I didn't want the Germans to wipe out the French and become a world power...it's fun to mess with the AI that way ) and they eventually repulsed the attack long enough to make peace. The French were Gracious for a while afterwards, and we were trading peacefully. Then...

I check on them in what we'll call Turn One. Still Gracious.

Turn Two: the French abrubtly cancel our little Incense deal. No explanation given. Didn't check to see what Joan's attitude was.

Turn Three: French declare war and raze two of my poorly-defended cities (hey, it was on another continent and I never expected the French, of all the civs, to declare war on me!)

I wiped the French out after that, of course, but it was very strange. From Gracious to war in three turns, and I had done nothing whatsoever to prompt the attack. Weird.

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Jumping Choya
I had a very mysterious post-patch experience.

The French were Gracious towards me, mainly because I gave them a load of gifts to fight the Germans (I didn't want the Germans to wipe out the French and become a world power...it's fun to mess with the AI that way ) and they eventually repulsed the attack long enough to make peace. The French were Gracious for a while afterwards, and we were trading peacefully. Then...

I check on them in what we'll call Turn One. Still Gracious.

Turn Two: the French abrubtly cancel our little Incense deal. No explanation given. Didn't check to see what Joan's attitude was.

Turn Three: French declare war and raze two of my poorly-defended cities (hey, it was on another continent and I never expected the French, of all the civs, to declare war on me!)

I wiped the French out after that, of course, but it was very strange. From Gracious to war in three turns, and I had done nothing whatsoever to prompt the attack. Weird.

My personal theory that might explain this is that the AI is programmed to take advantage of you. Since we know that the AI can see everything, it may well have decided that it's terratory wasn't big enough, and then looked around and saw who's cities it could take easiest (and factored in military strength and diplomatic relations). Since your cities were lightly defended, and you were on a different continent, the AI declared war on you. I'm not sure if this is how it works, but I hope so, since that's exactly what I do -- I look at the civ that shares a huge border with me, and attack them, taking over some of those small cities that are holding my boarders back.

Anyway, just my hope/theory that might explain that.

-- adaMada

[Skanky Burns]

The AI is more militaristic than pre patch, i must admit.

The French and Indians combined wiped out the Aztecs, Germans, and have made inroads into the Roman empire. Probably because the actual militaristic civs were behind in technology. On the other hand, they have all left me alone as i have kept a large standing army, even though im at peace and own my entire continent.