[JeffL]

Totally agree. The response to complaining about bad AI in civ is usually about how players don't really want good AI, but for me as the AI randomly shuffles their units around outside your city you constantly pick them off with mutually supporting ranged units, achieving kill ratios in the 20:1 range is so totally unrealistic that it destroys immersion.

I fully believe that the great mass of the bell curve is happy with the bad AI, but for those of us who are a little better at the game, we will keep complaining about how terrible the AI is.

[short_sells_poo]

I think the great mass of the bell curve also hasn't actually seen a good CIV AI experience because they never played the 4th iteration. But people know there is something wrong with the AI. One just needs to look at the steam forums and reviews. By and large, everyone agrees that the AI does not really know how to play the game. Which is a shame because I think the games themselves are genuinely built with love and care.