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Tax was not always on 100%

It might depend on the ruleset and world size. I ran the game with civ2civ3 ruleset and in a fairly small world, with enough space for just 3-5 cities per player (AI didn't even use that space though).

Found out that 2.6 is out, so installed it and ran an AI-only match. Created 10 players: 5 normal AI and 5 hard AI. Predictably, all "hard" AI quickly set their taxrate to 100%, fell behind and eventually lost (got eliminated once "normal" players built technological advantage). ...

Yeah, "hard" AI actually becomes lame several dozen turns into the game, at least in civ2civ3 ruleset. Not only 100% tax and halted development, it also repeatedly does stupid things like wasting tons of units doing nothing. It is ridiculously hard to conquer cities, I'd say pretty much im...