AIs ganging up on you

[ioticus]

Is it just me or do the AIs always seem to gang up on you? As a result, I usually get dog piled

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It's the latter - the AIs gang up

[Jarkko]

Yesterday evening I learned in a 2-player MP the AI's cheat with having map-knowledge. As usual I was doing crappy, but my co-player/opponent is doing in his usual splendid way. As he is leading according to the statistics, he has got some nasty interest from his AI neighbours and not-quite neighbours.

So I assume the AI gangs up against anybody leading the game. Which in solo-play is usually the human, I believe

[Endoperez]

I think that AI attacks those that seem to present great(est) thread, and those that seem to be the weakest. If you have strong armies, or even strong province defense, on all/most of your border provinces your AI enemies will not attack you until they have no other choice left. If you happen to lead in the income/gems etc., all AIs consider ifit is worth attacking you. However, AIs will not attack humans any more than they would attack each other if the situation is similar.

About "cheating AI": AI's of harder difficulties get more gold, resources, gems and resesarch than humans, and all difficulties also get to know who owns what province. They need scouts to see magic sites/armies/lone rainbow-pretenders, and I don't think it's as bad as it seems. Any human player who would consider attacking you would have many scouts in your direction, and he would have traded for lots more information about you than mere provinces!

[Jarkko]

Oh, I don't mean the AI shouldn't be able to cheat, on the contrary. I just didn't know it has a knowledge of who owns which province, but that is surely not the Last thing I didn't yet know of this game

[Kristoffer O]

I don't think tha AI gangs up intentionally. It attacks when it has few expansion possibilities. If you are strong you probably have more neighbors that might attack you. You will rarely be aware of AI vs AI battles. The AI prefers easy targets I believe, but that is probably on a short term basis. If a province seems weak it might attack. If another neighbor has weaker defences it will be targeted instead.