Quote Originally Posted by Bjorn Bjornson
The CivIII AI isn't all that great. If it's hard, it's only because the AI technically "cheats" (it gets a number of allowances the player does not).
Partially untrue.
The AI does, in fact, get allowances, but NOT BEFORE KING'S LEVEL !
In Chieftain and Warlord, it's in fact the PLAYER who gets advantages against AI. At Prince level, all is totally equal. It's only above that the AI gets bonus (and at Sid, these boni are totally insane).
We've worked a long time at Civfanatics to take the AI red-handed with cheating at Prince, but despite years of close scrutiny, the only "cheats" that was found was the one which was already recognized by the designers : that the AI has a partial knowledge about where are your armies. That's all.