Civ4 AI Survivor Season Eight

[haphazard1]

Welcome, Rik Meleet! Always nice to see another person discover the Civ 4 AI Survivor series. Watching the AIs ineptly battle each other is oddly entertaining, in that 'I can't stop watching the train wreck' sense.

Eauxps, most of my picks this season have not done much better than yours. Last week was a huge outlier. But I am enjoying having gotten one game mostly right, at least. This week will probably be back to normal.

As for random.org, I think it must have gotten into the whiskey again. Lincoln by domination, that early? Seems...unlikely. But we will have to wait and see.

[haphazard1]

Well, that was unexpected. After a very strange game 8 (can't wait for the alternate histories on this one), I ended up in a tie just behind the winner for this week. And that somehow moved me into the top ten for the season. What is this madness?

I predicted Augustus first, Lincoln second, Louis first to die with the high peace weight alliance tearing apart Louis. I did not expect Cyrus to throw his armies at Rome (twice, even). De Gaulle and Suleiman fighting pointlessly in the west was easier to predict.

I suspect the alternate histories will be quite different, particularly if the religions appear and spread differently. But Augustus should be strong, from that seafood/gold start that is perfect for Rome's starting techs. And Lincoln is stronger than most thought, with an agri resource and the silver to boost his early economy.

[Fluffball]

I haven't had time to watch the game yet, but I messed up my pick so badly. I barely had time to make a prediction and totally thought Augustus' start was Julius'. I saw the start and space and though, ya he can work with that. Oops!

Ok let's go see if my horrible mistake pays off.

[haphazard1]

I haven't had time to watch the game yet, but I messed up my pick so badly. I barely had time to make a prediction and totally thought Augustus' start was Julius'. I saw the start and space and though, ya he can work with that. Oops!

Ok let's go see if my horrible mistake pays off.

Having two Romes and two Frances in one game was a bit confusing, with all the altered colors. And Louis and Augustus were neighbors and had fairly similar colors -- maybe Sulla should have changed the eastern Rome to red, rather than the western Rome? Oh well, small details.

[Cyneheard]

I haven't had time to watch the game yet, but I messed up my pick so badly. I barely had time to make a prediction and totally thought Augustus' start was Julius'. I saw the start and space and though, ya he can work with that. Oops!

Ok let's go see if my horrible mistake pays off.

Having two Romes and two Frances in one game was a bit confusing, with all the altered colors. And Louis and Augustus were neighbors and had fairly similar colors -- maybe Sulla should have changed the eastern Rome to red, rather than the western Rome? Oh well, small details.

Eastern Rome cared a lot more about being "Born in the purple", it would've been bad history to change them.

[Fluffball]

I haven't had time to watch the game yet, but I messed up my pick so badly. I barely had time to make a prediction and totally thought Augustus' start was Julius'. I saw the start and space and though, ya he can work with that. Oops!

Ok let's go see if my horrible mistake pays off.

Well I guess I can take solace in recognizing that was a good capital for Rome? If Julius had been working a clam and gold tile from the beginning of the game, he gets all the basic techs like mysticism and pottery, and then I think we see the JC of old. Oh well.

[haphazard1]

Well I guess I can take solace in recognizing that was a good capital for Rome? If Julius had been working a clam and gold tile from the beginning of the game, he gets all the basic techs like mysticism and pottery, and then I think we see the JC of old. Oh well.

Augustus' start was certainly a nice fit for Rome's starting techs. JC's start would have been fine for a human player, or if he had the usual deity starting techs to make certain he did not ignore basic techs for way too long.

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

For the first Wildcard game, random.org predicts Asoka to win a diplo victory on Turn 389 (strangely late, I know). Hatty in second place and Cathy first to die, 8 wars. Honestly makes pretty solid sense other than the late date.

[luddite]

Just caught the vod of this game and had a thought

Do the industrious leaders do well when there's more of them? Kind of counterintuitive, but Augustus, and De Gaulle both did noticably better than normal this game. Maybe not Louis but he had a hard time getting doubleteamed.

I was thinking that a lot of AI industrious leaders fall into the trap of building too many wonders, but with 3 of them in the same game it sort of spreads out the load and lets them build settlers.

[Cyneheard]

Just caught the vod of this game and had a thought

Do the industrious leaders do well when there's more of them? Kind of counterintuitive, but Augustus, and De Gaulle both did noticably better than normal this game. Maybe not Louis but he had a hard time getting doubleteamed.

I was thinking that a lot of AI industrious leaders fall into the trap of building too many wonders, but with 3 of them in the same game it sort of spreads out the load and lets them build settlers.

Which is ironically the opposite of human players, but I am curious if this holds up. We have the dataset with the alt histories to work with.