AI asking for UN vote ?

[Nym]

Has anyone ever seen the AI building the UN and asking for a vote?
In my last game China built the UN and never asked for a vote until I launched my space ship about 50 turns after. Did it know I would win the vote?

[DrSpike]

Hmm, good question. I had one early deity game where the AI got the UN and won the vote, since then I haven't let them get it. They didn't ask for the vote straight away though, so maybe the AI does 'check' the result beforing taking the vote. Anyone seen a tie/loss after the AI holds an election?

[punkbass2000]

In GOTM7 at CivFanatics, the AI built the UN and used it immediately, and there was no winner. No majority or some such.

[Txurce]

I almost always build the UN to keep it out of the AI's hands, then hold off votes. But in my last game, a civ built it ahead of me, and immediately asked for a vote - a first in my experience. More surprisingly, the voting went like this: me three, them one, with one abstention. The abstention was the #2 power, with whom we were all at war. There's a lot of food for thought here... like why the UN builders thought they'd win, why the #2 power didn't vote for itself and, for that matter, why the other two voted for me. (I had been nice to them in a puppetmaster strat, but equally nice to the UN builders.)

[AIL]

That whole UN-Thing shall be overworked and made somewhat like in MOO... It was cool, when after a voting of 2 AI's one came to you and offered an Alliance in Thankfullness while the other threatened to declare war on you if you'd vote their Opponent again...

[Beammeuppy]

Sounds like the AI also makes use of the human player option to call for a vote or leave it.

With all the money the AI is waisting on whatever I usually take the safe side and keep UN for myself and only call a vote when appropriate, which is basically never!

[BillChin]

I just lost a Deity level game by U. N. Funny thing is that the civ that built it, lost the vote. Idiots.

[Nym]

Originally posted by BillChin
I just lost a Deity level game by U. N. Funny thing is that the civ that built it, lost the vote. Idiots.

Either votes are totally random, which is not fun , or the AI is not omniscient, even at deity level.

[High Lord J]

In a recent game on Warlord difficutly, Normal sized, continet map, and 3 civilizlations were left (Me (China),Greece, and Germans this is what happend...

Greece called for a vote I abstained and the two others voted for themselves.

China called for a vote and I still had never finished a game and didn't know someone could win off being elected so I voted for Greece and lost...

Can only two civs bulid the UN? It wouldn't let me bulid it...

[Dr. Stiby]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Anyone seen a tie/loss after the AI holds an election?

I actually had this at my first game. The AI called for an election. I wasn't only a mediocre civ. I was at war with both the civs I could vote for, so I decided to abstain. It turned out the voting went 3-3. Lcky me!
Eventually I won that game with a Space Race victory!