House Rules against the AI

[Humakty]

@ Lingchih :

Civ 4 AI is all about cheating, and much more so than dom 3 AI. Even on noble difficulty, it gets bonuses, and, mind you, there isn't anything too complicated to do in civ, well nothing as complicated as dom 3 spell system.

Civ 4 AI, at emperor difficulty, has at the very least ten different bonuses, ranging from troop XP to Great People generation, really every kind of bonus you could think about is covered.

So to evaluate Civ 4 AI, you'd have to play on warlord difficulty, were you could realise it is utter crap, not able to do anything consistent, not even by accident.

In conclusion, the only merit of civ 4 AI is to have much more bonuses than dom 3 AI, and I would in no way compare it to Galciv AI, which is able of a somewhat consistent gameplay.

[Makinus]

I recently bought Sins of a Solar Empire (the Trinity pack) and the AI seems to be very good.... i am mostly playing the AIs in Normal difficulty yet, but according to the developers, up to the Hard AI, it does not have any kind of bonuses, only it uses more advanced tactics, only in the difficulties above Hard the AI start gaining bonuses...

Seems to me to be a very good AI design... spceially considering that i still didn´t beat the AI on Normal difficulty yet....