New towns - does the AI cheat?

[anweRU]

All of my new towns have been "very poor". I haven't seen the AI get many new towns, because it taxes the life out of its citizens.

However, in my current UP campaign, the Maratha's had a "wealthy" new town pop up in Hyderabad just a couple of turns before I took the region.

How you seen the AI get wealthy, prosperous or growing towns? Or was the above an oddity?

[Subotan]

Nope, I turned all of Russia's towns from "Very Poor" to "Wealthy" through the magic of industrialisation.

[anweRU]

What difficulty level, and how long did it take you to achieve that? On hard so far, my very poor towns have always remained very poor, but I never got past the 3rd level of industrial buildings. My GB campaign is a long one (to 1799), so I'll have to see if it happens in that game.

However, in the case I mentioned above, the new town poped up as wealthy, nothing was ever built on it.

[Subotan]

H/H, and not that long. There were some towns in newly conquered Belarus that took me about 20-40 turns to turn from stinky backwater to steam powered metropolis.