Civ 4 | Let's compare immortal and deity AI

This is a special video which we sit out and observe the immortal and deity AI and compare the differences, demonstrating what a player should expect on both difficulty levels and hopefully help you learn a thing or two.
Deity playthrough: 1:07:00

[@Concojone5]

This takes me back to my first Civ 4 games where the AI were expanding so much faster than me, even though I considered myself a great Civ player (Civ 2-3, that is). So I sent my little warrior over to the AI to see how they were accomplishing this! Turns out they were growing their capital first, NOT building a settler first at size 1 or 2 as was the best strategy in previous versions of Civilization :))

[@tanalhesser6513]

AI survivor is my favorite anime

[@stt5v2002]

Thanks so much! And thanks for the Peter game. I learned a lot about the use of great people in that one.

[@Greeny1142]

nice video, really informative! if you would want to post an ai survivor type video every now and then (say if you don't have time to play a full game, for example) i would enjoy it btw. i always thought watching the ai play the game is entertaining, although watching a human struggle to win is of course more exciting.

[@jukeseyable]

Brilliant, great, many thanks for this upload

[@Chr1s_1986]

Its really sad that Chris (Absolute Zero) isent playing Civ4 as much anymore. I was watching him allready 9 or 10 years ago and allways loved his Deity playthroughs.

[@kkambanite]

great video! )

[@hellenjoyer9406]

you should have teched sailing and fishing

[@konatals5023]

Never dare to play above EMP, but this video is creative and informative indeed. Around 33:00, did you mean your JC Inland sea video? Poor Freddy o_O || . Immortal AI losing his capital on hill to barbs is something I've never seen before. Besides, the events log at the end of that game shows Hannibal lost a border city to barbs as well. Barbs are often troublesome in large maps like Inland sea or Low sea level Continents. In terms of Engineering rush, did you mean the Immortal 28 game with Charlie ? I'll watch that. It seems AIs like Justy are rather weak at lower levels or in humans' hands, but they often become strong at Deity. Had a recent game with Justy in a Pig + Sheep start, early game was really slow 「(°ヘ°)

[@henrik9658]

Ya those references are correct. Don't be afraid of emperor and immortal, they're only small steps up from monarch. Figure out how to do X 5 turns faster or reach this technology 5 turns faster (like civil service 100ad instead of 250ad or something) and those simple differences are what it takes to move up difficulties

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

I'm wondering if having the player involved accelerates the Deity timeline, since the player is likely much more active in tech trading. Also, so, it looks like wonders are 5% discount per era, and everything else is baseline 40% with an extra 3% per-era discount?

[@henrik9658]

Yes player definitely accelerates it

[@monkeychess1398]

Great idea thanx!! You are not thinking about doing an AI survivor championship?

[@henrik9658]

That's Sulllas thing I don't want to steal his content

[@monkeychess1398]

@@henrik9658 respect!

[@drrichybanks1396]

Have you ever played tropico 5 or 6

[@nooneinparticular3370]

I just tried this with the K-Mod on Noble so that it wouldn't have any handicaps or advantages, and I must say I'm very disappointed, the AI is much worse than I was told.