Hena wrote:
I don't really build specialised cities. Except perhaps with military. I tend to only build units in cities which take time to build Barracks, Armoury etc, which I dont build in all cities until they run out of other useful buildings. I do however consider where I put them to try to get proper tiles (luxuries, mountain, rivers, defensive positions etc). I do also pick the civ depending on what victory I'll try. So for example the deity victory was done using Greek (halves the city state deterioration). For example current attempt at deity domination is China. In there I've started to use avoid growth selection to help with unhappiness management on couple of my cities.
Ah, primarch, what do you mean by AI exploits?
Hi!
In the vanilla game it starts with playing china. Due mainly of it unique building, which gives science AND gold. A very overpowered combination.
Add to this that China gets more frequent and better generals, you can spam powerful armies led by them and use the excess to power golden ages.
By the late ancient age, I'm the clear front runner in tech and cash due to this. I am usually the first to get to the medieval age.
It's even worse with the expansion since Babylon is way overpowered due to its abilities.
One way to exploit the AI is to make deals with them for cash or other resources and turn around and declare war. This not only makes your treasury greater, but severely handicaps the AI since it now has no gold to face you in war or rush by units (which it loves to do). I constantly check other civs for how much money they have early on, drain them and then take them out.
The second AI exploit are research agreements. The AI simply cannot use them effectively. Make them with civs less advanced than you, which will boost your tech advances and they won't compete with you. On king I can reach the industrial age before the others get out of the medieval ages using RA's.
Those are the main ones, there are a ton of smaller ones. I confess playing with the exploits gets boring real quick. That is why I prefer lower levels of difficulty and use none of them.
Primarch
