carm3
Chieftain
[I searched for this topic and couldn't find anything, but please delete/move if I missed something]
I'm playing a game on Emperor as France, and have been going on a bit of a wonder kick in the modern age I'm building the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Statue of Liberty in Marseille, and Broadway in Dijon (yeah, I know, I should be building this in Paris, but I can't resist building the Eiffel Tower in Paris). With about 6 turns left in my Eiffel Tower, I get a note from my diplomat in Siam that Ramkhamhaeng is also building the Eiffel Tower, but after checking up on it see that he is a couple of turns behind me. So I complete it, and then next turn go and check what Ramkhamhaeng is building instead only to find that he's now building Broadway, and has only one turn left until it's done; sure enough, one turn after that he's built it. No great engineers were in the city, nor have any arrived (I can see because I have a diplomat there), and in any case a great engineer isn't enough to complete Broadway.
Given that I'm going for a cultural victory, I'm feeling a bit annoyed at this. I feel like this is the AI blatantly cheating; can anyone else think of another explanation?
I'm playing a game on Emperor as France, and have been going on a bit of a wonder kick in the modern age I'm building the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Statue of Liberty in Marseille, and Broadway in Dijon (yeah, I know, I should be building this in Paris, but I can't resist building the Eiffel Tower in Paris). With about 6 turns left in my Eiffel Tower, I get a note from my diplomat in Siam that Ramkhamhaeng is also building the Eiffel Tower, but after checking up on it see that he is a couple of turns behind me. So I complete it, and then next turn go and check what Ramkhamhaeng is building instead only to find that he's now building Broadway, and has only one turn left until it's done; sure enough, one turn after that he's built it. No great engineers were in the city, nor have any arrived (I can see because I have a diplomat there), and in any case a great engineer isn't enough to complete Broadway.
Given that I'm going for a cultural victory, I'm feeling a bit annoyed at this. I feel like this is the AI blatantly cheating; can anyone else think of another explanation?