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by thristian 3780 days ago
A couple of years ago I got the Civ bug and couldn't get any of the official versions running reliably under Wine, so I tried playing FreeCiv for a bit.

Man, that AI. In Civ 1, on the lower difficulties I could happily defend myself and expand my borders and explore the world. FreeCiv doesn't exactly have a "difficulty" setting—it's got like twelve pages of buttons and sliders—but on the default difficulty it seemed like I always spawned next to two or three other civs that would near-immediately grind me to paste.

I really, really wanted to like FreeCiv, but I don't think it likes me.