Re: BTS

"Bonzo's Montreau" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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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
>

I think you are corrent in thinking it is overspending on military.

You might try the unofficial BTS patch (Theres a link in this newsgroup
from 
11/10). Many of the calculations have been reworked and its possible that 
this would fix it, but who knows.
Its worth using in any case as it fixes a lot of other bugs.