[PLAYERS DO NOT ENTER] Lurkers thread, where lurkers are making fun of the players

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Any ideas as to what happened to Care Bears? It sure seemed like they were in top position early on:
-highest city count
-highest food
-ample luxaries
-Oracled COL
-GE'd the Pyramids

Normally such rapid expansion would mean that the economy was a risk but with representation + courthouses it sure seemed that they wouldn't fall into that trap. I saw that they adopted Police State which I thought was questionable,...

So what happened? Were they just outplayed? Diplo shutout? Score management through intentional whip-down of cities? Or is there some other lesson to learn here?

I just took a quick look at their thread, which is very scarce on reporting. I think they over-expanded and compounded the poor GNP by delaying currency (and wealth builds) much longer than was prudent. MC, masonry, OR and whatever else they researched before going for Currency as an IMP civ was probably a bad idea, but I can't be 100% sure without reading other threads and doing some serious peeking around, which I'm not inclined to do for this game. IMP + Rep specialists would have certainly been better than police state, at a casual glance, so long as they weren't under military pressure. With NAPs available, I doubt they were under much pressure.