Posted on: May 20, 2019
balkaster
Verified ownerGames: 229 Reviews: 21
Cheats like you wouldn't believe
Civ I's greatest flaw was that diplomacy was designed to be against the player, and all AI factions took full advantage of it. Civ II balanced diplomacy somewhat, but added an unnecessary explosion of unit types with overlapping purposes. All Civ III needed to do was thin out that herd a little. Instead they made diplomacy even more predatory towards the player than in Civ I, locked all AI factions in an unbreakable alliance against the player on the very first turn, and gave the AI free reign to cheat like all get out EVEN ON THE EASIEST SETTING. No matter how large you make the world and how few factions you allow it, it is guaranteed that all AI factions will be within two turns movement of wherever you build your first city. The AI is allowed to cross your borders anytime, build cities in adjacent squares to yours, and steal your resources with outposts without declaring war. If you complain, send a single unit over their borders, or try the same predatory tactics, it's instant eternal war to the death and all AI factions instantly have an infinitely renewable number of troops right on your border ready to steamroller over your empire. No defense will keep them out, and any attempt to assault their cities results in the instant destruction of all your troops. Any time you come within two turns of completing a wonder, the city building it instantly goes into unrest, giving any or all of the AI factions two turns in which to start AND COMPLETE the same wonder before order is restored. AI factions will always be richer, happier, larger and stronger, and there is nothing you can do about it. Barbarians are "Rampaging" regardless of what difficulty setting you choose for them, and are capable of creating infinite stacks of troops to slam your cities literally hundreds of times per turn until they are destroyed. I loved the Civ series until this one. I will never touch another Civ game again after this one. What a waste of time, money and goodwill.
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