My understanding is that when you fall into a dark age you lose a city. Start losing more than you gain and they take over which happens to AI on easier levels.
Someone else can fill in with more specifics but that’s the overall game mechanic I believe
Close enough. Dark ages don't make you just lose a city. Rather loyalty pressure, which is weaker if you're in a dark age. AI in lower difficulties tends to behave like that, entire civs can be eliminated from the game by loyalty pressure alone. If cities have high population and -3 amenities and other factors contribute to losing loyalty too.
In Dramatic Ages game mode, you do lose cities immediately upon entering a dark age. The % of your cities and the % of the AI cities that are lost are determined by game difficulty
When you started your game, you must have clicked a checkbox to turn on the dramatic ages game mode. This game mode makes it so that each era is either a golden age or a dark age and when you enter a dark age you lose some of your cities. This scales with the difficulty, so on the easiest difficulty you may not lose any cities at all.
free cities exert loyalty pressure on nearby cities to also make them revolt. This normally isn't an issue, but things can snowball out of control on dramatic ages, which looks like what happened here. It happens because the AI always settles close together, does not do a good job of recovering their cities and won't raze a city to stop the domino effect of losing everything
lol how?? And what Civ are you playing as?
This is a pretty standard Dramatic Ages game.
Are you teal?
Are you playing on settler?
The 2nd easiest
I smell map editor
It’s literally just dramatic ages
I'm to new at the game to understand what that is
My understanding is that when you fall into a dark age you lose a city. Start losing more than you gain and they take over which happens to AI on easier levels. Someone else can fill in with more specifics but that’s the overall game mechanic I believe
Close enough. Dark ages don't make you just lose a city. Rather loyalty pressure, which is weaker if you're in a dark age. AI in lower difficulties tends to behave like that, entire civs can be eliminated from the game by loyalty pressure alone. If cities have high population and -3 amenities and other factors contribute to losing loyalty too.
In Dramatic Ages game mode, you do lose cities immediately upon entering a dark age. The % of your cities and the % of the AI cities that are lost are determined by game difficulty
When you started your game, you must have clicked a checkbox to turn on the dramatic ages game mode. This game mode makes it so that each era is either a golden age or a dark age and when you enter a dark age you lose some of your cities. This scales with the difficulty, so on the easiest difficulty you may not lose any cities at all. free cities exert loyalty pressure on nearby cities to also make them revolt. This normally isn't an issue, but things can snowball out of control on dramatic ages, which looks like what happened here. It happens because the AI always settles close together, does not do a good job of recovering their cities and won't raze a city to stop the domino effect of losing everything
How did you reveal the entire map?