What causes the AI to just die and stop expanding?

[iceboy]

Originally Posted by Edi

Most of the time bad scales. All the games I've played SP, the AIs with hideous scales (Turmoil, Death, Misfortune 3 seems to be a popular combo) manage a strong push in the first 25 turns or so and then they just flatline because their scale combo has wiped out their population and resource base and they just linger on. Contrast with the ones who have good scales, such as high order, some growth, neutral or positive luck and perhaps otehr positives as well, those become absolute steamrollers.

Get an EA Vanheim with the good scales and you may well see an army of 300 hirdmen sweeping away everything in its way and that one being just one of many, for example.

Yes normally that could be it but in this game I put all AI's to have all balanced even scales no more no less...