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I absolutely love this game. But this has to be the single most absurd thing I've seen and it really whiters away the enjoyability of it. Particularly since I acquired this "Improvement mod" Now all of the AIs make a ton of walls, two layers at the minimum. And if I don't spend every second monitoring the attack the troops begin attacking these walls despite the fact that a massive gaping hole exists.

I mean it's understandable for them to attack the walls if there are no other buildings or units around. But they prioritize these meaningless walls!! They could be standing next to a lookout attacking them, and they'll be attacking these damn walls! Please help! There must be some fix for this issue! I can't be the only one this effects.

Huh...that could just be what I was looking for. Can't believe I hadn't thought of that. I use shift all the time, but only for movement and troop creation.

It's a bit confusing since there are two layers of walls and the AI hardly ever makes a single continuous layer. It's really a multitude of randomly placed sections with gaps all around where there are patches of trees, trade routes and buildings. So technically I don't even have to bring the walls down, I could march in through the gap caused by a trade route.