#45249: Enabling setting don't rebuild palace when capital is lost leads AI empires to diminish into nothing should the capital be lost
Open Date: 2022-07-27 08:16
Last Update: 2023-09-06 16:00
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2023-09-06 16:00 Updated by: cazfi
Comment:
The simple thing we could do would be to just give higher AI levels reverse handicap of no being subject to 'savepalace' setting.
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Ticket Status:
Reporter: (Anonymous)
Owner: (None)
Type: Bugs
Status: Open
Priority: 5 - Medium
MileStone: (None)
Component: (None)
Severity: 5 - Medium
Resolution: None
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Ticket details:
In 2 different test games I ran with the setting don't rebuild palace when capital is lost, whenever an AI player lost its capital (either destroyed or conquered), in all but 2 of the 10 cases I observed, the AI's empire steadily declined (all remaining cities shrunk down and eventually disbanded) and the AI player "died" and this happened for AI of various empire sizes. I'm not sure if this is intended behavior (haven't seen anything in documentation explaining this). Using spy/diplomat investigate city snapshots, it appears the City manager just abandons food and focuses on either science or gold (all workers became either scientists or taxmen). The two cases it didn't happen, one of the governments was democracy and the other communism. For 3 of the 8 cases where it dispersed, the AI was wealthy (1500 gold in treasury, and one had 40k but had civil war so both had ~20k), and neither used their wealth to rebuild the palace.
Not sure if this is a bug or just something that should be patched. Also, didn't see any messages in the log about no crm solution for any city in the 2nd game, though in the first game there were a couple for 2 of the AI cities (but this was before the AI capital was lost).
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