Civ4 AI Survivor: Season Four

[yuris125]

Wish I picked domination like everyone else last game

Looking forward to the next one!

[Charriu]

I have to say I did not find it so strange for Tokugawa to be the first to liberalism. After all he was the only one with a science flavor in a game, where most people sucked in teching.

[Brian Shanahan]

Well it looks like if I'm right, everybody's right. Mansa Mao 1-2, Hatty first to die, lowish wars and spaceship finishes are all very popular.

[Sullla]

More links for you:

Game Five Written Report

Game Five Video (YouTube)

Game Five will be this upcoming Friday (24 May) at the usual noon EST start time. Good luck with your predictions!

[RFS-81]

Watching the dogpile on Germany right now on Twitch. Hey! Hier kommt Alex!

[Jowy]

Augh I picked Alex and Toku and still ended up with 0 points

[GreyWolf]

The thing with Tokugawa is that he's usually hurt in games by his obstinate refusal to trade techs, but this doesn't apply in AI Survivor conditions, where tech trading is disabled. With this part of his "loser" personality removed, he's a simple fairly average aggressive AI, slightly more moderate in his aggression than the likes of Genghis.

It's interesting to see, however, that Mansa is still very competent, even with tech trading off.

[Brian Shanahan]

The thing with Tokugawa is that he's usually hurt in games by his obstinate refusal to trade techs, but this doesn't apply in AI Survivor conditions, where tech trading is disabled. With this part of his "loser" personality removed, he's a simple fairly average aggressive AI, slightly more moderate in his aggression than the likes of Genghis.

It's interesting to see, however, that Mansa is still very competent, even with tech trading off.

I think it's because of a few factors he's got a strong tech focus to keep his economy humming. He'll go for the economic and cultural techs fairly early ensuring that he can get the military techs easily. And while he's definitely one of the "good" leaders, he doesn't tend to fall out with too many civs, therefore he doesn't go to war stupidly all that often. And though he will not war, he does have 25/40 build unit probability (from the wiki), meaning that somebody does attack him he'll have a good chance of getting enough units.

His only real holes are that a) he may not have reliable allies, from being willing to work with everybody, and b) sometimes he does neglect the military techs too much, and thus is behind by a military generation to a technologically weaker opponent.

[yuris125]

In the competition "who will ignore Rifling for longest", Mansa is one of the leaders. That's his biggest weakness

[Commodore]

In the competition "who will ignore Rifling for longest", Mansa is one of the leaders. That's his biggest weakness

Thing is, that's a relative stat. Mansa will ignore Rifling until he's practically at Assembly Line...but he still reaches that point before Genghis reaches muskets.