Cultures northland cheats fog of war
I've seen it react in an instant to direction changes by armies chasing it in the fog when running around in player territory. Excepting "lucky nations", I guess those get freebies. This is true, unless you increase difficulty (in which case you should expect it/would be strange to complain). But maybe if siege times were reasonable, this would be less of an issue (though it would also imply that fort spam is even weaker).
I'm not convinced this is healthy for the game. AI is less able to snowball, less able to put up a fight.but simply takes longer. Slower wars with less units per opponent seems like the worst of both worlds to me. I'm also still not convinced the AI "should" build forts to the extent that it does, because it is sacrificing a non-trivial amount of its ability to make units in doing so. It would be a help, length of battles and sieges are both unrealistic and cancerous to gameplay right now. Not in the way described, but it's objectively true that the AI does cheat. PDX had to dumb down the entire combat system to aid the AI because it cannot understand reinforcing or building proper army compositions and positioning its armies correctly. It can't even differentiate between death wars and when it should lightly help an ally. Last time I checked, AI isn't willing to (or even capable of building an economy that can) go massively over Force Limit and hard commit to wars, the same way a player can. And again if you seriously have a problem with AI temporarily seeing into Fog of War to simulate a player having basic object permanence, then that's simply a "skill issue." There is no learning AI in this game, its just a set of weighted numbers and a dice roll. That's "cheating" as much as it is cheating when the AI sends a successful diplomatic action, or chooses to send an army to a fort. AI "cheats" Fog of War? The AI can "remember" where troops are by seeing slightly into FoW after a unit enters it. The AI is notoriously bad at the game vs any decent human player.
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