(June 19th, 2020, 19:53)Fluffball Wrote: Can't remember which poster has posted the text edit solution to this for several years and sullla keeps saying he doesn't want to mod the game.
That's me, and this issue is why I don't follow this series, it's so skewed from the real AI behavior (also being on Deity difficulty, which skews things too, by the cost of build items being cheaper relative to that of techs.)
Re the AI win condition discussions - there is a specific code path that they turn on for a culture win, where they pick 3 cities and max all the culture multipliers in them and eventually run the culture slider. Whether a particular AI does this is random and depends on the leader's flavors, so yes Gandhi does do that a lot. I'm not sure if any such targeting exists for the other win conditions. I do know the "we'd rather win the game" message comes up sometimes on refusing to trade a spaceship tech.