azzaman333
meh
espionage and world congress are basicly tools for the AI to use against the human player.
They will ban luxuries that you have will embargo you , will steal techs from you faster then you.
its basicly a tool so the Ai doesn't fall behind when you are winning.
Bad design in my opinion
Disagree completely. Espionage is how I research the bottom row of the tech tree, and it's usually very cheap to do so after the first tech if you pick the right target. World Congress I don't think I've ever had any problems dealing with either. Simply by selling your luxuries around you're not only benefitting from the extra gold, but the AI won't vote to ban something that's giving them happiness (except with the possible exception of the proposer of the resolution). I have no idea what you're doing to get embargoed, I'm pretty sure I've never had that problem.