How the fuck am I supposed compete with runaway AI's? Every game there's always one asshole that's on another continent and completely eclipses everyone else. In this case I got an island start and I'm far behind everyone. and I knew I should have rolled a different map. I can't be bothered with specialists and shit.
I am orange line, Carthage

Every fucking game is like this. I am playing on prince difficulty I have played this game for years and I never got good at it