(August 7th, 2020, 21:52)Fluffball Wrote:(August 7th, 2020, 21:42)Borsche Wrote: That has to be one of the weirdest games I've watched in a while. What a weird season.
We've seen countless examples over the years of AIs just getting totally stuck and shutting down for no reason. They'll stop expanding on 3 cities, park a monster-mega-doomstack in the artice ice during a critical war, or have like 3 settlers in their capital during the landgrab phase, etc. There's been a LOT of weirdness over the years (especially when you look at victory conditions! I'm looking at you in particular, culture slider.)
Some power players have been floundering this season, but I don't think it's out of the ordinary at all. Mansa or Stalin or JC or whoever just getting stuck is pretty common at this point.
I just don't think I've seen multiple civs come back from non-competitive levels to make a play for the end game. To say nothing of the Lotharingia style civ we saw in this game. Though I think some astute prognosticators foresaw a civ getting caught between cultural/religion or cultural/wonders.