Why does every A.I love choosing "Order"?

[egg fu]

Wtf man someone please explain

[zxcvbob]

Just get there first and pick Order yourself. Then they have a dilemma. ;)

[leandrombraz]

AFAIK the way the AI decide which ideology will be better for them end up creating an unintended bias towards order. In other words, order is good and the AI knows it

[airmikee99]

Order is designed for large, wide, expanding empires, which fits with most of the AI's built in personalities. The tier 2 tenents Party Leadership, Resettlement, and Five Year Plan all encourage expansion, even in the latest parts of the game. The more cities an Order empire has, the better off the empire becomes.

I've just chosen an ideology in my current game (ironically, Order) and the AI's should be catching up soon. I'll make note of which ones get chosen in this game just to see what happens.

[Moonjunk]

I only have one AI civ per game, if it gets to ideaology, Most go for autocracy or freedom

[Mr. Very Cool Guy]

it's the best ideology sadly. I wish they would've kept the ideologies equal with one another :^(

[Roarak]

Every time I pick an Ideology the other civs always seem to pick the others if for no other reason than to spite me, it happens all the time.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by WTFohitsyou:

Every time I pick an Ideology the other civs always seem to pick the others if for no other reason than to spite me, it happens all the time.

First to pick a particular ideology does get two free policies, after all.

[D3bs]

If I have good tourism, culture and happiness I like to choose the ideology first; as I have found that, generally, at least two other Civ's will follow me. If not then I will try to wait until ant least two other Civ's have chosen and pick one.

I like Freedom and try to make a judgement as to who will also choose Freedom based on who the Civ is and their number of cities. It doesn't always work, for example, Brazil with only three cities chose Autocracy in my last game and immediately went into a state of dissidents and civil unrest whilst I remained 'content'.

[Count_Dandyman]

Each A.I values different things from ideologies order just happens the be the one that ticks the most possible boxes on the list they use to decide so rather then an even split of 1/1/1 on ideology choices by civs theres more of a 2/1/1.

Also civs that favour autocracy tend to go heavily into early wars that backfire and freedom ones don't always defend well so they don't always survive long enough to get ideologies.

[Malvastor]

If I get an Ideology first I usually try to get it voted the World Ideology before anyone else picks theirs. It doesn't always work, but it's anadded incentive for the rest of the world to follow my lead.

[JtBryant]

Originally posted by Illuminati:

it's the best ideology sadly. I wish they would've kept the ideologies equal with one another :^(

Your kidding right? Autocracies's gunboat diplomacy guarantees you will get all of the World Congress votes :P

[zxcvbob]

Originally posted by JtBryant96:

Originally posted by Illuminati:

it's the best ideology sadly. I wish they would've kept the ideologies equal with one another :^(

Your kidding right? Autocracies's gunboat diplomacy guarantees you will get all of the World Congress votes :P

On higher difficulties, it doesn't :( Treaty Organization is a surer thing, even tho' it's only 4 influence instead of 6.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

On higher difficulties, it doesn't :( Treaty Organization is a surer thing, even tho' it's only 4
influence instead of 6.

Hm. Doesn't that have a significant risk of the AIs voting to embargo all city-states before you get to TO?

[tangoafterdark]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Hm. Doesn't that have a significant risk of the AIs voting to embargo all city-states before you get to TO?

Very rare, and if you're taking Treaty Organization as a tenet, Diplomatic Victory is probably at least a backup plan for you and you'd do something to prevent Embargo CS.

[Dragon]

I dont know why all yall saying Order is the best, Autocracy is the way to go, just get it and there... conquer the world with a bunch Panzers :3