... is when there is only one competitive strategy in a game that was designed to have many. See: 1:35 of Extra Credits' "Is the Game Broken? - Designer's Intent and the Triple Power Rule - Extra Politics - #7" video
Laureline: Yo Wu Zetian is so OP why would I bother playing any other Civilization See: Sid Meier's Civilization V.

Mereoleona: Nah sis, methinks that you're just playing off that Civ 5 is suffering from strategic collapse. If any Civ would inbring strategic collapse to Civ 5 it would be Nebuchadnezzar II's science victory. Ya prob simp Wu Zetian tis the only reason ya prob saying such poppycock.
by MaxwellMurdoch October 22, 2020
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