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Hooha
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Oregon City, OR, USA
Apr 2000
time: 05:12
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Continuing in the vein of another recent thread, what are some of the absolute stupidest things you've ever seen the AI do.
Yesterday, I was shocked when in my current game, some time in the mid to late 1700s, the announcement flashed on my screen, "Carthaginians have changed government to Despotism." Now, we've all seen the AI do some pretty stupid things, but changing back into despotism? Is there any conceivable reason why this would ever be beneficial? Does the AI just switch governments at random? Has anyone else seen the AI switch to Despotism?
I should probably just put the Carthaginians out of there misery, they've been stuck at 2 cities since I first encountered them sometime in bc. It's a good thing the AI cheats, otherwise, there'd be no point in even playing SP.
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Ken Hinds
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I've seen the despotism thing quite often in MGE, but not as much since I was able to install the patch.
Ken
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jpk
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Minneapolis
Feb 1999
time: 05:12
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Ming:
That's the way the AI uses every cargo ship. Practically every game I play some AI civilization uses a loaded trieme or caraval to attack one of my ships.
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inca911
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St. Paul, MN
Jan 2000
time: 05:12
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In my early days, I saw the AI defeat all defenders in my city, but wouldn't walk in and take it. It would have fortified a unit outside the city instead. Now that's dumb! I guess the AI can't remember what the lack of a flag means.
Nowadays, the AI is lucky if he ever sees a single city of mine with any unit except a caravan! Defense is so much easier when the war isn't being fought on your own home soil.
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debeest
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CYBERamazon, I've been attacked amphibiously by marines several times, and I've come to suspect that they get to ignore both city walls AND coastal fortresses; they certainly seem to succeed too often. Has anyone else had that experience?
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Ken Hinds
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Occasionally I get the transport load of marines do an anphibious assault, but usually it is one or two transports of tanks and just trashes everything.
Ken
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jpk
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Minneapolis
Feb 1999
time: 05:12
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I am currently playing a game where I traded Philosophy for AI technologies. The first AI civilization (Spanish) to get Literacy got it while I was researching Metallurgy. Immediately three Spanish cities started to build the Great Library. Amidst great fanfare it was finished several turns after I discovered Electricity.
Even better than a 300 shield settler.
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Laertes
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London
Jul 2000
time: 05:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Smash on 07-18-2000 11:54 PM
Marines are 1 of several units I have never seen the ai use.Granted I don't let the ai get advanced enough.
Having experimented with them myself I say for sure they ignore coastal forts.Since ships ignore city walls I think they do also but I'm not sure.When I did use them it was against muskets so that doesn't tell me a heckuva lot.
A transport of marines with a military ship is deadly for coastal barraging.That way your escort doesn't lose any strength.Also pretty good at capturing those fortresses the ai loves to build.
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I have seen the AI use marines quite often, against other AI civs more than myself. I think Marines do ignore city walls. I have just taken 4 large, walled Zulu coastal cities, by chucking a load of Marines at them, taking the city, and then loading the boat up and moving down the coast. I have defeated vet alpine troops quite easily with the Marines, so I think the walls are ignored. Coastal fortresses do protect against marines, I think.
I have a new dumbest move (apart from the obvious deployment of cannon stacks etc in the field without any defensive units) - AI Civs that don't expand!!
Playing at deity, my current group of opponents have totally failed to expand at all. Five of them, and me, were all on one large continent. By 1850, the Zulus had reached about 15 cities, everybody else around 10. They had failed to find several large juicy continents not far from their shores, and had even let the barbarians keep a city going up to size 8 that they caputred in about 3000BC. The Greeks were stuck on a separate large island with about 17 cities, but even with Lighthouse they had made no progress.
They're not even making a game of it! They have not built a wonder since Copernicus, apart from starting suffrage two turns before i finished it. I have stopped building city defences, except for resistance to barbarians.
I have only got a couple of wins under my belt at this level, and this, he says, adding famous last words, will be by far the easiest.
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07-07-2000 22:12
The next turn I checked, and sure enough, they had the SETI Program, and ONE CITY benefiting from it 
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