What is the state of the AI?

[WhenDiplomacyFails]

Still stupid as previous versions?

[Traveler]

Awful (aka it's a Civ game).

[ROE]

dumb af.

[WhenDiplomacyFails]

Thanks for the input, I won't even download this game on free week. CIV ai simply not worth playing.

[Traveler]

Just because the AI is dumb doesn't make the game any less fun. And you can always try mp.

[ashbery76]

It can play the game.

The game is fun and offers more than just build 100 tanks and conquer weakest A.I etc.

[Gomer]

Originally posted by DudeWhereIsMy2ndBoar?:

Thanks for the input, I won't even download this game on free week. CIV ai simply not worth playing.

For you maybe, for everyone else with friends to play with online, its a blast. Its basically a boardgame on steroids.

[WhenDiplomacyFails]

Originally posted by ashbery76:

It can play the game.

The game is fun and offers more than just build 100 tanks and conquer weakest A.I etc.

I expect from company who this franchise for more then decade to invest at least in machine learning and put AI at proper level. I'm not asking OP ai where player does not have a chance but a good AI that customer can say to himself "damn, that game worth my time".
It's not matter of bulding units and conquering the ai but the lack of outcome. That's why it was important for me to ask first the state of AI in the current CIV.

[ashbery76]

The reality is they have one of biggest and most played strategy games.Not putting lots of resources into the A.I has not had any effect on sales.

The A.I working is enough for them.

[FredDie]

Originally posted by ashbery76:

The reality is they have one of biggest and most played strategy games.Not putting lots of resources into the A.I has not had any effect on sales.

The A.I working is enough for them.

"working"

I think the reason behind the amount of players is simply lack of alternatives. Best similar game I could find is AoW planetfall..its decend, but the scifi setting cant beat classic. Other then that there is nothing (Desperate attempts like Old World release as epic exclusive wont cut it) and humankind delayed again as expected.

[TaylorItaly]

You want a CIV Game with good AI ?

Go for CIV 4 with the C2C mod.....

[MFX_Media]

It's better, but... no.

[Traveler]

Originally posted by TaylorItaly:

You want a CIV Game with good AI ?

Go for CIV 4 with the C2C mod.....

Everyone says how great Civ4 is but I tried it a couple times and didn't like it at all. Much prefer 5 & 6.

[TaylorItaly]

I did not said that CIV 4 is better ; i only said that with that C2C-Mod the AI is much,much better than the A.I. in CIV 6.....

Side-Note : I am playingh both during these days and have a lot of fun....

[Maya-Neko]

You can't really compare doomstacks on squares to a "one unit per tile"-system. It's way easier to just move one army around the map rather than building 20 units and making sure, that all of them doesn't impede the other units movement and attack abilities.

And it doesn't just stop there. The district/wonder system and the worker charges also make decisionmaking way more important in civ6 than before

The civ4 AI isn't really smarter than the civ6 one, but it's just the complexity of the game growing faster than the AI abilities.

And machine learning only really works within a constant learning process (until it reaches its peak performance within the given parameters). Once this process is stopped at the point, where the difficulty might feel right for the alpha/beta testers (which can't check every behavior, which will most likely be triggered on a regular basis by a bigger playerbase), there will most likely still be many possible exploits, which experienced players will rant about. That's just the nature of a stagnating AI in video games.

[Traveler]

True. But in Civ6s case it'd be very easy to make the ai less, in specific areas, less stupid.

My constant annoyance in 6 is a small issue: minor civs unit builds and deployments. There's no reason for finding a Venice bombard floating around the ocean half way across the map. For that matter why is it building siege units in the first place? This is a very small issue but that it's not addressed shows how little the developer cares.