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It definitely is the best Civ version. The latest versions are frustrating . Recently got Civ 3 for windows 11!!! Now back to wasting hours of my time. This vid is excellent. I learned so much from it. Thanks.

You mentioned fortifying on a road which is annoying, but didn't mention the most annoying thing. Civ 2 ai will actively try to trap a land unit from moving anywhere by cornering it somewhere. And once it's trapped it will fortify its unit and sit there for all time. Doesn't matter if it's near one of their cities or on the other side of the world.

"The lobby won't crash, this isn't civ 6." real lol

I actually liked how Civ 3's AI would block 1-tile choke points, since I as a player would do that too. Does it doom some games? Yes. But if you really Civ you should know that some Civ games are just unwinnable. Now what does get on peoples nerves and I'd say is a 3/5 by Suede's rating is the AI in Civ 5 building a wonder like the 'Petra' if it has a city next to 1 flat desert tile. Sure, the player would maybe also do that maybe for the 1 trade route, but probably at least 50-80 turns later than the AI does it. Another Civ 5 AI behavior that bothers me, that the player can't do is specifically Zulu Impi's get special promotions and of them is the 'spear throw' ranged attack. If the AI surrounds your unit with 3 Impi's it will first use those 3 ranged attacks and only then go into Melee with these units 1 by 1 ... but the human players can't manually spear throw... it's not classified as a ranged attack... This is a 2/5 by Suedes rating. I feel like the AI doing something the player can't do should legit be 3 points as that often feels cheap. Like in Civ 5 asking - Hey are you going to attack me? And then making you either declare war immediately or take a reputation hit later on... While the AI itself is known to stack a big army right outside your boarders before declaring wars...

Nice nice, great vid, now lets see a tier list for all the units!

How did the game end? It was definitely looking rough there around turn 100 but you were in a solid position by the end. I think your choice of location for your second city was fairly poor and slowed you down -- the tip about settling on a luxury to avoid instant negative amenities didn't really apply in this case because you had already improved a luxury in your capital. It would have been better to settle next to the marble on a river tile (probably the one in between the sheep) so you wouldn't have been so housing-limited. It was hard-capped at 3 pop for a while, and didn't hit size 4 until over 100 turns after you settled it, which is kinda a while to be locked into only being able to place one district. You didn't have a ton of fantastic city locations available to you though.

I know it was in Civ V, but don't remember which version, that they could demand you move away troops within *Your* territory from anywhere near them, or have *You* declare war on them, it was an either/or and it also punished you for "broken promise" with everyone if you chose not to declare war, but didn't move your troops. Player cannot even interact with the "I demand you do X" system, so it felt like extra cheat for the AI, to screw you towards everyone unless you do a sidequest to appease it.

@4:30 it’s so much worse in Civ: Beyond Earth. If you’re allied with someone and they declare war on someone you are also forced to declare war. Therefore if your allies declare war on each other, in the games logic everyone become’s Schrödinger’s ally. In seeking to fulfill the war alliance obligation everyone just declares war on each other.

The relentless bloodthirst and total war campaigns the AI wage in alpha centauri honestly tend to wake me up and force me to dig in and fight harder. They bring out the competitive spirit in me. They make me a better man. Thank you Yang ❤️ 🙏

What are the barbarians suppose to be, how do they work in the mod?

I wonder how you made a lot of these modding rules. I've tried modding extensively but there are a bunch of things I've never been able to do Like how do you make defensive bombard more powerful without making normal bombard more powerful?

This honestly sounds awe3some.

6:48 🤣🤣

if you were to play this singleplayer against AI, are they able to actually put up a fight? what difficulty should you set them on if you're experienced.

MODERN IS BACK BABY, SPLINTER TWIN UNBAN.

For me it would have to be chain peace vassaling in Civ IV. You're just there doing your thing then four of the other Civs roll up to the top dog, pull out collars and leashes, do their best puppy dog eyes and say M-Master? / M-Mistress? Aaaand suddenly its become a five vs you and Tokugawa who won't talk to anybody.

Can’t believe he’s advocating for more militia in modern games 💀

Look cool. Well done!

That Kylanater guy sure looks good...

Maybe I need to get back into Modern, but that means I need to learn to play something that isn’t Order…

A bit niche but in Civ IV Colonization the AI constantly claims founding fathers they can't even use seemingly just to spite you. Like they'll take John Rolfe despite having no tobacco at all in their territory.

Due to my extensive experiences with this issue in Stellaris... I would have to bump the "AI and game programming blocking you from ending a war" at the top of the list for me. Especially in that game it can be horrendous. You can even end up perma-locked into a war if a third party declares war on the same civilization and occupies a world or two. You can then not occupy them yourself, and so you are unable to acquire more warscore, so unless you want to declare war on the third party as well you can only at best wait out War Exhaustion to where you can force a win, or you might even plain HAVE to white peace out of a war you have already won.

I always get recycling for the recycling centres so I can make my cities nice and clean...but I also like to plant forests wherever possible...kind of off target of winning the game, I guess.

u like turn based games 😁

Yang is peak asshole tier AI You will always, always have Yang find a way to fuck up your day. Or Miriam.

Vanilla CIV 5 is unplayable for me. You have no protection against spies, the AI ​​sends one missionary after another to your cities, as soon as one AI denounces you, everyone denounces you, including your friends, and this happens on the turn in which the friendship contract expires (which you have to constantly renew here). And the warmongering is so high that you would have to wait until the end of the game until it finally expires. The AI ​​in CIV 4 is annoying, but you can handle it. The best is and remains Alpha Centauri. There the AI ​​is at least somewhat predictable, even on the highest difficulty level.

Didn't check comments yet if it's already mentioned, but in some games like Total War, some AI really throws any self-preservation out the window. Leaving their Base of operation wide open, to travel the whole map with their cheat bloated army only to screw with the player. You are hindered to grow, and they feed another AI that's also already cheating. Repeat

Recently played Civ1 Ai fortifying their units right next to my city is like daily occurance and anoying as hell, specially if it happens for newly founded city, which can then be pretty hard to developt

I think one thing that really irritates players about AI is their hypocrisy. It's one thing when an AI hates warmongers, it's another thing when they hate warmongers while they are warmongers themselves. Another typical situation is the AI asking you to stop settling near them, then they forward settle a city 3 squares/hexes from your Capital. Another irritating thing that happens in Civ V is in the diplomatic game where an AI can just decides to propose banning one of your luxuries, then when you understandably vote against it the AI is like "How dare you make my proposal fail!".

In Civ2, I once started a war because an AI moved a tank back and forth dozens of times on a railroad every turn.

You're to blame for getting me playing this amazing game again, the new mods are amazing. Would love to see another live stream like this and more Alpha Centauri content.

Looking at mistake no4, the player clearly doesn't have enough workers. They should have at least two per city at this stage, if not more. Based on what's shown, I reckon they've fewer cities than workers. You can always merge workers back into cities for pop later on when you've all your tiles improved.

What is really annoying is when the AI just does insane things. Like settling a city in nothing but snow, or so close to the borders that it will flip in seconds. And sometimes AI will just do an insane thing because it is part of its programming. In one game of Civ IV I was the neighbour of Montezuma. I managed to get on his good side and we fought multiple wars together against everyone until all that was left were the two of us and our allies/vassals. I had the stronger military and I had the support of the other remaining civs while Montezuma only had two vassals. So naturally he declared war on me! I know that Montezuma is bound to betray their friends, but have some sense as the war was clear from the start!

"Seppuku behavior" Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment.

Some of my most memorable experiences were with the Alpha Centauri AI. There's a sense of personal interaction that can make you feel hurt or betrayed, or actually feel grateful and indebted. (Like when they give you free tech or transfer units when you're in an alliance) To the point you tend to forget they're not real and you want to protect or aid them. They're also very good at making you feel intimidated, especially factions like Miriam, Yang and Santiago. I never forget the first time Santiago demanded a tech from me to avoid war, and then demanded a second tech because I was at her mercy, and it always stayed with me. The aliens are even worse. They can also demand up to two techs from you, but then still declare war on you. They can ask for a loan (which I would give hoping it would placate them for awhile) and then they would take the money and still declare war. Of all the factions they love using air power the most (They beeline for Doctrine: Air Power at higher difficulties) and they are almost guaranteed to attack you after you meet them but don't have the tech to talk to them yet. When these factions mentioned above get rolling, they're almost impossible to make peace with unless you can stabilize against them. Alpha Centauri's AI is relentless and the aggressive factions will go for the kill if they have the opportunity. I miss that feeling of personal interactions with the Civ AI's.

forget not the double adjency bonuses

Civ6: it’s cheaper to steal settlers from the AI rather than build them yourself

I mostly play civ 4. I obviously prefer it but there are three things that do annoy me. First is the AI only makes demands of you. It NEVER makes demands of other AI. This gives a bunch of demerits that the AI doesn’t have. Second is peace weights. I know that they are meant to reflect personality and the type of leader which personality will like but if you get a lot of one type in a game it absolutely skewers diplomacy. Third is throw the game AIs. If you watch Sulla’s AI survivor you know what this is. AIs like Montezuma, Genghis Khan, Ragnar. AIs who make it their mission to try make sure one guy does not win but have almost zero chance of winning themselves. I didn’t include Shaka on that list because he’s actually more competent for some reason despite being just as war happy.

I actuly am not particulary mad at EU4 Pece deals. a war is only over when both sides say so that is an inherent risk of war and mechanics like tiking war score and war exsaustion mean that somtimes you just have to wait a bit.

I hated how the AI would send mocking messages. ("What do your citizens do all day, bang rocks together?")

Is there any way to reduce the amount of time the "City builds X" notification?

Amazing

Your videos are amazing! I am getting back into CivIII complete, and I'm never sure when to build workers/max amount of workers I should have. Is there a point where I shouldn't be making them anymore?

It's tradition even the freeciv ai is a corn tee, you get used to it.

7:18 here "30" in shield cost for Settler. in original civ3 editor there was "3" and this price x10 in the game. how to make back "3" in conq editor?

Building wonders while struggling with barbarians feels very in brand for the Eastern Romans

The classic declare a war on the player that is bound to achieve absolutely nothing because he is on the other side of the map and not willing to peace out. Its just pure tedium having to deal with random ships trying to pillage your sea food randomly etc. Also almost everithing espionage related in CIV IV. AI spends so much useless money on poisoning wells and destroing improvements. Does nothing to help them win the game, doesnt even really do damage to the human. It is just annoying

One mechanic I really liked in Civ 3 was that citizens had an ethnicity. Which is to say, if the Zulu conquered a Russian city, that city would mostly consist of Russian citizens: of course they'd be angry if you continued your war with Russia and want to rejoin their empire. But also, if that city was part of the Zulu empire for a thousand years, those citizens would mostly think of themselves as Zulus and maybe even resist any Russian attempt to retake the city. I think subsequent games tried to streamline things. The loyalty mechanic from Civ 6 is, in a sense, doing the same sort of work, but it just feels less interesting and it doesn't really make sense intuitively (I mean, it's not like Alaska is on the verge of an independence movement that will eventually lead them to joining Canada). A game of civ still tells an epic story, and there are certain details that, while maybe not necessary from a gameplay perspective, add to that story's narrative.

I've got Civ 3 on Steam but was thinking of buying the CD too although I'm not sure which version I should go for. Which one would you recommend?

Civ IV was not part of the DLC paywalling thing? What are you talking about lol