outsdr | Civilization 4

I got Andy Civ 4 GOTY for the holidays; it includes all the expansions. Playing it again, we tried it at Noble difficulty, and I remembered once more what I have always hated about the Civ series- the cheating AI. When an AI civ is more advanced than it possibly can be or builds a Wonder suddenly right before I finish the same one and I know there is no possible way it could be doing that in the amount of game time that has passed, it makes me want to rip my hair out. I'd like to play at a higher difficulty than "Settler," but that's the only way to have a fair game, it seems.