Maybe I've just lost interest in Civ and don't play properly, but I've found that King is nearly impossible to beat ... the AI absolutely swamps you with units if you try to build anything or more than a couple of cities ... it gets there first to almost every wonder, it skyrockets ahead of you in GDP, it lays down a carpet of units in its territory, while your own army drains your treasury so fast that you can't afford to build any more buildings ... you can't keep up with research because the AI has enough money to sign research agreements all the time ...
This is especially bad on continents, where the AIs will swallow each other up and turn into an unbeatable entity by the time you meet them ...
And you know what the worst thing is? The AI could actually be even more difficult if it didn't just sit with its hundreds of units laying in its borders ... if it sent them over the ocean to attack you, you would be inevitably destroyed!
In theory King difficulty should be impossible to beat unless you pull off a great ploy or get extremely lucky!
This is especially bad on continents, where the AIs will swallow each other up and turn into an unbeatable entity by the time you meet them ...
And you know what the worst thing is? The AI could actually be even more difficult if it didn't just sit with its hundreds of units laying in its borders ... if it sent them over the ocean to attack you, you would be inevitably destroyed!
In theory King difficulty should be impossible to beat unless you pull off a great ploy or get extremely lucky!