Rekk
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Mongolia should've gone for the city with Great Firewall XDThere are two very different things that could be happening here:
1. Warmongers are doing well but just not winning via domination
2. Warmongers are doing poorly overall and weren't really close to winning by any measure
My experiences tells me its probably the 2nd and tweaking the rules for a domination victory won't affect it much. I also noticed another trend for warmongers that I'll share an anecdote about:
Spoiler A Story :
In my time in VP I've only ever played 1 game where an AI got to close to winning by domination. It was Mongolia and he killed everyone except myself (Byzantium) and Egypt. Mongolia had 6 capital cities but was way behind in science. The game was stuck in eternal 3 way war, Egypt and I both tried to win by culture but weren't able to influence each other. There was only like 2 city states not conquered, so no one could possibly get enough votes to win by diplomacy (there was like 11 votes total between the 3 of us). I was pivoting towards a spaceship but it looked grim I could hold out long enough, once the Mongols had air units all I could do was stall with my smaller unit supply.
However, Egypt is also losing ground. And once the Egyptian cities start falling, I had a chance. Because I'm already influential over Mongolia in culture, when Genghis Khan takes Egypt's last city, I win.
That story above was a few years ago, but I'll say that I still think the core problem is tourism. Notably that a successful warmonger has a ton of cities and smaller empires with strong culture will devastate him with tourism. For a cultural victory to not happen you usually need 2 culturally strong civs to cancel each other out.