Its also the only victory I have ever seen an AI achieve.
The fact that you can just turtle yourself to SV without really doing anything on the international stage shows something is wrong. The only remotely hindering thing might be not having aluminum but even then you can just build recycling plants.
It also comes across as some kind of cop-out victory condition. For example, if you fail a domination you can juist say, or well I'll just build the space ship.
Nothing in the UN can slow you down really. Spaceship Factory and International Space Station are pretty much useless because by the time they come around chances are you've already built half the ship.
I think at very least the spaceship parts need to be knocked back in the tree. Ideally all at Future Tech, seeing as they are all sci-fi anyway.
I just don't like the mechanics of it. I never liked the idea of people voting for a winner...feels too much like an episode of Survivor.
It also breaks suspension of disbelief in terms of bribing AIs to vote for you. Put yourself in the AI's shoes: if you were getting close to a culture or spaceship victory, is there ANY way that you would vote for another civ knowing that your votes would probably cause him to win and consequently you lose before you reach your victory condition? Probably not. And would you allow any amount of favor that AI did for you earlier coerce you into voting for him and losing the game? Not a chance!
Well, it significantly buffs your spies and helps with domination in that cities come out of resistance twice as fast. I would like to see tourism and culture make CS bribes go further or something. It seems inconsistent to have CS totally immune to the dominant ideology.
