I can't quite figure out whether the AI are supposed to be obstacles to winning or are acutally 'playing' to win themselves?
I've never seen an AI get close to a cultural victory let alone complete one; AI diplomatic victory is more like a player-loss from bad planning in my eyes and I always manage to finish the spaceship even if a more advanced AI has long beaten me to Apollo Program and built a few parts. In the latter case I often see SS parts 'stuck' around the map or just sitting in an AI capital without being added.
I've moved up to playing far more immortal level games and I'm still adapting to having to change my build and expansion strategies since I had the luxury of meandering about on emperor - that said I'm still often winning science VC pretty late (turn 320-350).
I know I am skewing results on the basis of persuing games which are going well or I've made a good comeback from a difficult start so I'd be interested to hear others views on this.
I've never seen an AI get close to a cultural victory let alone complete one; AI diplomatic victory is more like a player-loss from bad planning in my eyes and I always manage to finish the spaceship even if a more advanced AI has long beaten me to Apollo Program and built a few parts. In the latter case I often see SS parts 'stuck' around the map or just sitting in an AI capital without being added.
I've moved up to playing far more immortal level games and I'm still adapting to having to change my build and expansion strategies since I had the luxury of meandering about on emperor - that said I'm still often winning science VC pretty late (turn 320-350).
I know I am skewing results on the basis of persuing games which are going well or I've made a good comeback from a difficult start so I'd be interested to hear others views on this.