AI conquered city problem.....

[Mikeus Caesar]

On my greek campaign, i conquered patavium from the julii. My usual thing to do when i conquer a city is to destroy the temple and build my own. But when i look for the temple, i notice that the julii haven't destroyed the old gallic temple, even though they held patavium for 200+ years. Methinks that the reason the AI has trouble holding cities, and always has rebellions is because of their failure to replace other civ's buildings and temple. Has anyone got any info to back this up?

[The_Emperor]

Not really, if you notice the AI Cities require hardly any garisson compared to yours and rarely go rebel. I have seen AI cities with no troops in the garisson suffer riots, but have hardly ever seen them fully go rebel unless there was major unrest there to begin with and a huge culture penalty.

Check the map out next time and count how many troops you have garrissoned in your large cities compared to the AI... I'll bet their cities would be nearly empty with all their armies wandering the map while yours are stuck on peasant watching duties.

[Tora]

I think the AI is simply indolent when it comes to town and city planning.
I've retaken towns 15 or 20 years after being turfed out only to find:

1.The town is still a town, nothing having changed since I left.

2. The enemy never did get round to mending the holes in the wall they'd made all that time ago.

[The_Emperor]

I think the AI is simply indolent when it comes to town and city planning.
I've retaken towns 15 or 20 years after being turfed out only to find:

1.The town is still a town, nothing having changed since I left.

2. The enemy never did get round to mending the holes in the wall they'd made all that time ago.

This is also true.

New Buildings do seem to be very low down ont he list of priorities for the AI. I think it concentrates on troop numbers more, which is part of the problem (hence all those cheap armies of barb Warbands and other cheapness).

[KiOwA]

If the AI is Roman, they seem to only build highways on the Italian peninsula. Even for cities outside Italy that have been in Roman hands for decades, the AI simply declines to build highways.

[Mikeus Caesar]

1)

If the AI is Roman, they seem to only build highways on the Italian peninsula

Not true. On my wonderful greek campaign, they captured thermon off me, and built some highways. How kind of them, because when i came back, i took the city back. I din't even need to build a ram though, i just went in through the holes that they made.

2)

I think it concentrates on troop numbers more

Also not true. There is one thing they concentrate on more than that: Boats. They build massive navies absolutely everywhere (including the caspian and the red sea. Why?) which means that everything else is even lower down on the list of priorities.