It takes some turns before the vote appears. Something like 10-15. You can see a counter in your top right hand screen corner. Took me a while to figure this out when I did the diplo victory too.
Heh. I've now won a game on every single difficulty level and, unless the AI vastly improves when you can play on larger maps than the small ones I'm currently forced to use, all I can say it's pathetic. On the one hand it cheats way too much, on the other it's still as stupid as it was on the lower levels. On deity the AI entered the medieval era in ~50 turns, had 4 cities, and a teeming mass of units. I had 3 horsemen and I crushed it in a 3 turn long war. Game over. Awful! Regardless of whether the AI is improved or not, there's no way I am playing on deity again. Medieval era with all of that in 50 turns due to bonuses!? Where's the fun in that!?
For reference, I beat Civ: Rev on all difficulties and felt much the same about it: too dumb at low levels, too dumb and cheaty at high ones. Civ 4 I only got 2/3 of the way up the difficulty ladder on.
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