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Anonymous

7/2/2003 2:44 AM

Settler

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Wanna post a question concerning the AI. It CHEATS like hell (even on the low difficulty levels). Example : Shortly before you discover a technology the AI already starts to build the Wonder which goes with it. I try to beat it by disbanding one unit after another in that city, but the only result was that another tribe got the Wonder even faster. :mad: Anyone suggestions on how you mislead the AI ? Nothing beats winning a CIV game
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Chi_Dan

7/2/2003 3:05 AM

Elite Warlord

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No it doesn't cheat in lower level. In fact, you the player has an advanatge over AI in production/income/scientific development. For example, AI will have to spend more shields to build the same wonder as you -- at lower difficultly level. The trick to build wonder is to start building something else before you get the techonolgy. Let's say Great Wall. You should start building a Palace or something before you have entirely researched mansory. Sometime, AI seemed to build wonder very fast. That is because of they switch from a previously building wonder to a new one. Finally, disbanding units does not spend up Wonder production. Those shields are lost. Yes, it speed up most things, but not Wonder.
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Clay

7/2/2003 10:45 AM

Chairman of the bored.

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If you have contact with many civs on a similar level as you technology wise you'll notice that when one completes a Wonder there is often a jump by all the other civs to lesser Wonders in an effort not to waste all their shields. This is why after something like (in a lot of my games) the Sistine Chapel is completed you'll see a flood of other Wonders completed the following turn.
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Leo

7/2/2003 10:53 AM

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Another thing you'll notice different between lower and higher levels is that the civ you said started a wonder shortly after you got the tech already had that tech. They had to wait until you got the tech to start building the wonder. They didn't cheat to get it, but couldn't build it until you got it. That they built it before you is bad luck, and the Wonder Cascade is possible for you as well, as long as you already have a tech that will allow you to build another wonder. The only way to rush a wonder is with a great leader, disbanding doesn't work any more...cutting down forests doesn't work, nothing but a great leader. The AI does already know where all the resources are...it does already know the whole map (but it pretends it doesn't...essentially it won't send troops in unless you give it a map or it explores itself) and it knows where all your military units are, and half-heartedly tries to pretend it doesn't. It doesn't start cheating on shield cost until monarch, and until regent you have the advantage in production.
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