Will Civ 7 have competent AI?

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Resolves based on my subjective opinion, but a general litmus test will be whether or not I can beat the AI on the unhandicapped difficulty (i.e. prince) after ~50 hrs of play or ~5 games played. Will resolve N/A if Civ 7 doesn't come out or I don't play it enough to judge (I expect either of these outcomes to be quite unlikely).

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What difficulty level do you typically find challenging for previous versions of Civilization?

@TimothyJohnson5c16 I didn't see this, not sure why...but I can usually beat civ 6 on deity pretty handily

That's a bewildering litmus test. You think they could be designing a civilization game where a player can't beat the AI within their first five games? You think that could be one of the design goals for this game, and you would call that "competent AI"?

@marvingardens this is the standard for what I would describe as "competent"; I do not expect they are going to, or intend to, design an AI that meets this criteria, but maybe I will be surprised.