Is this FAIR AI Behavior???

[knupp715]

Think about it, if you were in Saladin's situation would you waste a great engineer on a wonder you had already almost built? No, you would use it on a different wonder then switch back to the one you were already building. I have done this many times. Saladin may not have known you were even building it.

 

[TLHeart]

I have done exactly what the AI did, why waste a great Engineer on an almost completed building, when he can complete another world wonder for me in one turn. Switch, build, switch back, and hope nobody beats me by one turn on the original building.

No cheating by the AI, just smart

 

[ZippyRiver]

Reducing the pop to one might have a number of rammifications. Because of the loss of population on a civ wide perspective perhaps AI priorities got changed as well, putting the wonder down a notch on the list of importance. It might have even delayed the AI from getting the right tech by a number of turns. All with no clue as to what your doing. All it knew was it just suffered a "random human event" and had to adjust.

 

[MrCynical]

There's no reason to suspect the AI knew when you were going to finish Anghor Wat. I've lost plenty of wonders to human player in multiplayer by a single turn. Were they all cheating too? Of course not, that's just how luck works out. The AI had a bit of luck getting a leader and made good use of it. Cheating their population down to one probably meant the AI's priorities were shifted to growth rather then wonder production, so they didn't switch to Anghor Wat. The only one cheating in your game was you.