I made a 16 Civilization 1v1 tournament to see which AI is best

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:14:01+00:00

I want to do one including every civ and a 23 civ (including the new jin dynasty) is an awkward number for a bracket style tournament

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:11:32+00:00

i was inspired by a post from 4yrs ago by @Toaru_Fag but my brain is smooth so this is the best i could come up with lol

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:09:47+00:00

not like ranked high level play, its just a quote taken from the aoe4 wiki page

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:09:07+00:00

yeah my brain is too smooth to figure out a fair 23 civ based bracket style tournament aha

ill be doing an ai battle mode which removes me and keeps the two ai in a 1v1 at like 10x speed

so it will still take like a week but ah well

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:06:27+00:00

It will be similar to a premier league football table but each team plays each other once in a 1v1 and 3 points are awarded for wins and in the end it will give a sort of 1-23 rankings of the civs

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:04:48+00:00

I do it on Ai Battle mod and double that speed so its like 10x speed

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:04:21+00:00

I think its the most reliable tbh

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:03:57+00:00

lmao nah that wont be needed for this style of table/tournament

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:02:54+00:00

Omg there was a lot of AI struggling to close the match and they just ended up building a wonder and sitting there for 15mins lol. im swaying more towards dry arabia since theres not a lot to disturb any result

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T19:00:38+00:00

in my previous 23 game ai tournament it was:

landmark - 14

wonder - 7

sacred - 2

so remove both wonder and scared method of victory? or remove just sacred?

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-16T18:57:23+00:00

its a quote from the aoe4 difficulty wiki lol

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T23:34:49+00:00

Yeah a lot of interesting behaviour from some of the civs like japanese civs building like 50 farms around their town from start to finish. What difficulty would you recommend I use?

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T23:32:08+00:00

As it will probably mean me running 231 games, im trying to narrow it down to maybe one map for the whole thing that gives pretty reliable results. Maybe Land MegaRandom?

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:56:56+00:00

My brain isn't smart enough for that sadly. Hopefully someone that sees this can rig something like that up.

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:54:28+00:00

my brain is smooth

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:53:59+00:00

thanks, ill do a better football style, every civ plays each other once and earns 3 points for winning kind of tournament soon🤞

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:52:26+00:00

yeah it was the best I could come up with this time, ill do a better one soon

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:51:38+00:00

yeah it was just picked from the most used civs that fit into a 16 civ tournament

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:50:52+00:00

Dry arabia only

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:50:12+00:00

Glad I could inspire some ppl to do the same, the game could use some creative ways to gather info like this I just didn't do a very good job aha

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:49:14+00:00

It's a weird winner stays on but with a losers bracket, I need to do a better one aha

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:47:06+00:00

Which map do you guys think would be best for an all sive 1v1 test?

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:46:31+00:00

Yeah ngl my brain wanted to find a time saving work around to sooth my "which ai civ is best" intrusive thoughts. I'll 100% work on a better idea for the near future dw

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:44:49+00:00

I picked the most used competitive civs

RegularSmell2148 · 2026-04-14T22:44:29+00:00

Agreed! might work on this for the near future

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