Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
I think its more of a problem in the AI than in any given option he's using. Not sure if it's a PROBLEM per se... depends on what needs the AI was actually responding to but there are known overtraining bugs still, particularly in regards to property control and vision units. It's not a matter of having too much gold available I don't think, more a matter of some control factor not functioning properly. Needs extremely deep complex evaluation I just don't currently have the patience to address.And you are playing with the New Complex Traits Option (per your post in another thread). This changes everything. Because Every Leader is no longer the same as the default Trait Options (the base Traits that we have had for several years). And Complex Traits is still basically a WIP from Thunderbrd. You and others are now providing test games through your usage of them. Expect oddities.
I run test games constantly for the base game options while I do Civic rebalancing. I can not use Complex Traits. And as such I do not see the things you are reporting in my test games. I don't have AI with 17 Story Tellers in 1 of their cities. That was a problem a couple of versions back, v37 and v38. But since billw2015 has joined the Team that in a base game with minimum Game Set up Options do not exhibit these tendencies.