I’ve been reading this forum for weeks before the release of civ3,
I went out and bought my first copy on the day it was released.
Ok first impression of the AI, very impressive I must say.
I played all of sids turn games, and I must say the AI is 100 times better.
Although I do have a couple of complaints about it,
#1 if you’re playing a game on chieftain, why does the AI play like on deity?
There to powerful. They definatly need to be toned down in the lower levels, chieftain, warlord.
They can leave the rest as it is.
As for the battles,
Hmmm what’s really going on?
The first game I played was with the Americans.
Large Map, 16 players.
Ran perfect, early on in the game I didn’t battle with anyone because they would have whipped me. So instead I bribed everyone, hence I made it to year 1955, much more advanced than all the other civs. And in battles, id win every time.
Made the AI look weak. But there is something seriously wrong with the ancient to industrial Ages of the AI battles,
for example. The next game I started I was the Romans.
Hoping with militaristic people under my belt I could conquer a lot, quick, and early in the game, again a large map with 16 players.
No I got smeared.
I swear the archers could take out just about anything if the AI uses them, I used them and I personally think they suck.
Yet again firaxis claims that the AI units have no special attack bonus, defense etc.
I even fortified an elite Horseman by the river hoping the AI would attack him. sure enough a regular archer did, and let me tell ya, my horseman didn’t do a lick of damage on that archer, and he was fortified by a river, which is supposed to mean major defense bonus.
Any way’s I just had to say something about the early game play of the AI, im not even gonna get into the corruption, im sure that’s disappointed alot of people.
All that im saying is that if Firaxis is going to say there is no AI combat bonuses, then play a game trying to conquer the world. Good luck taking out even 1 civilization.
Its next to not going to happen till modern era.
I was reading the transcript from the IRC chat about firaxes talking about the AI.
Just shaking my head wondering how much firaxis is paying those guys to say “THE AI HAVE NO BONUSES!”
And here im thinking dude just play a game, only start off building a military and attack.
Im pretty sure you will notice some pretty ridiculous odds. I spend my time cussing at the monitor when I try to dominate militarily. And that’s on Chieftain.
Personally I love the game, but if I would a known I got what I did, I wouldn’t of spent my 63 bucks on the LE version, not to mention the video CD was junk, the fold out tech poster looked like it took a whole 3 min to put together. Although I really like the tin case
I hope that a lot of these issues are fixed in the upcoming patch, including the save game, where you get the city error trying to load a game then file corruption, I swear I get that on just about every game I try to load, I just got to where I leave my computer on in the game most of the time afraid to save it
Anyways please if your going to flame and act like a child then I wont even read your post, however I did spend my 63 dollars and I definatly think that gives me a right to say how I feel about it, for those of you that scream "LEARN TO PLAY" well first off you’ve never fought the AI early in the game, that’s evident, and secondly, your probably another one of them players that bribe the AI so they wont destroy you.
Anyhow this is just my 00.2 cents
