Originally Posted by
Mr.Silver
From my current game. It's coming up to the 80th turn, and two city states have asked me to find Babylon (my scouting efforts having been curtailed). So I talk to Neby, only to find that I can't exchange embassies because he hadn't discovered writing yet. Nor did he have it 12 turns later, when my scout finally spotted his borders.
I do worry about the AI sometimes.