AI City Spam

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The AI still has a great has a great tendancy to create multiple cities near my starting locations.   It creates 3 or more cities very quickly - I have no idea how it can do that given the current limitations on city building but it does.    This means that if I don't spend all of my efforts on getting an early city building unit out in the world that I am cut off.    I like city building but not as the entire game focus.     I am using a large size world so it isn't overcrowding on a tiny world.

I have seen this AI tendancy in earlier parts of the beta and commented on it then.   It has reappeared in the latest (0.92) program update.

There has got to be some way to stop this as it cuts off any ability to focus on the rest of the game.  

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

well it doesnt require much to build a city just a pioneer

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Are the AIs building cities closer together than the game allows? Screenshots and savegames would be helpful to illustrate this issue.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

What is the city spacing limit?    I will look and see if they are too close.

I think the real solution to this issue is to have both human and AI players starting points be as far apart as possible within the limits of the number of players and the space available.

I'll look and see if I still have a savegame.

Thanks for the help.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

cities are limited to 10 spaces from another city.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Cities still require gold... was just playing as pariden and had to fork out 100 gold per city I already had, despite it listing the cost as zero.