Starting playing on Emporer and Diety recently and I have noticed a few dirty tricks the AI pulls on you. Feel free to add to this list:
1) Settler production doesn't knock down their city population. I had an army of warriors on a hill just watching the Spanish capitol. In three turns it pumped out 3 settlers (with an accompanying archer). The city never dropped in population.
2) If there is a fog of war, enemy units WILL come out of it. I was on the southern part of the map with a little resourceless penninsula jutting down to the ice caps. I had boats on either side watching for any invasion forces but the land itself could not be seen. Every other turn for about 20 turns an army of Germans (whose civilization was FAR north) would pop out of the fog. At first I thought it was a fluke, but eventually i sent both of my ships to investigate. Nothing was there. When I put a unit on a hill that could see all the way to the tip of the penninsula they didn't "magically" pop out anymore.
3) If they are invading and you don't have a spy in your city, they will destroy your fortifications, everytime. Whenever I would attack an invading force, a spy was never to be found. But when an invading force attacked my city without a spy defeding, my fortifications would always be destroyed by a previously unseen spy. They aren't invisible to your opponents are they?
There are others, but I am sure you all can come up with some.
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Originally Posted by eireksten
