I love the game but it's more like a city builder since after a few hundred turns all the ais have nothing and don't expand much less become any type of a threat.

1. I would recommend ai buildings after being pillaged auto repair for free after like 10 turns. Otherwise, they will never do anything all game due to having no resources.

2 Adding a line that once a resource that can be built upon would be abandoned once it hits a single turn left till they have enough stone blocks to get them.

3. Spawn a stone deposit near every ai and the player. It's a crucial resource that you will need to have. Without it you will have no choice but to restart till you have stone.

Without it, the game is impossible to play and as a player, you don't get enough from the caravan to substitute it. Salt has the same issue with the caravan. It simply doesn't sell enough to matter.

The problem is that without regenerating resources or new deposits popping up the ais eventually end up with nothing because they don't prioritize a building that can make stone and stone blocks to make resources last forever. Maybe add another resource type or 2 that can sub for it if you want some diversity?

4. Give every ai a free archer as well since from the looks of things they seem to lose everything to bandits first before the forever wars with the romans keep their lands a burning hell.

5. Stop the ERE and WRE from warring each other. They always do every single game which ends up making one of them extremely overpowered and its not as fun with only one.

6. Add a peace option that resets the ai relations from wars or just make each war a set time limit that defaults to peace after that turn amount has expired. Maybe not 0 relations since that would be to high for 2 civs just at war but a -3 or -4 would work. Without this every ai and roman is in a constant war forever which eventually leads to a game where no one has anything.


I really love the game but...

The ais do nothing at all which makes it feel like a city builder rather than an actual strategy which is really disappointing.

I understand if you have a vision for your game but it should at least have an ai that works and feels like an actual strategy right? The ai needs cheats for it to do anything by the look of it. I recommend it. Maybe not on normal or hard but on the other 2 I say they do since I would love to have an ai in this game that can do something.

Also, some achievements would be great and give me more of a reason to play the less interesting civs.