"Bonzo's Montreau" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I have been playing BTS for a couple of weeks now. I find it much more
>difficult than Warlords and my usual level (Prince) is now impossible for
>me due to the extreme agressiveness of the AI Civs.
>
> To get around this and to try out the cor****ations I have tried a couple
> of games with the 'always peace' option on a custom game, so I do not
have
> to worry about wars. This goes fine until about half way through time,
> when the AI Civs research slows to an absolute crawl. I can see from my
> espionage that it is taking them about 160 turns to research fairly
basic
> technologies. I can research every technolgy possible and they are
still
> in the middle ages at the end.
>
> I think part of the problem may be because the AI Civs seem to spend
every
> bit of production on military units, which is strange in a 'no war'
> situation.
>
> Is there a solution to this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
Yep, drop the no war option.
Under most leaders the AI civs are total warmongers.
If you look at their cities mid game using world builder you will see that
most cities have few buildings beyond barracks & grannery.
Noble is about the highest level I can play at and I find it necessary to
micromanage the workers and more im****tantly what tiles the cities work.
Choose the tiles giving coin - cottages, water tiles and those tiles next
to
rivers.
The extra income boosts your ability to spend on research and gain the
tech
lead.
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