I"m confused and probably missing something. But what do you do with Writers and Artists? You never mention building Amphitheatres. How do you get musicians if you say don't go to Ren?
The whole piety tree can be removed from the game and really fast culture games are still possible. Try aiming for a fast science victory -- ~turn 210 -- on, say, prince. It's rather easy to stumble into a fast culture win instead. Ironically, turning on policy saving may avoid this. Culture is that easy. It's the new AP win from Civ IV.
The whole piety tree can be removed from the game and really fast culture games are still possible. Try aiming for a fast science victory -- ~turn 210 -- on, say, prince. It's rather easy to stumble into a fast culture win instead. Ironically, turning on policy saving may avoid this. Culture is that easy. It's the new AP win from Civ IV.
Or a person can simply go back to G&K if he wishes to avoid a random win notification when he hasn't a clue as to what performance he executed to trigger the win. Allegedly games get tested on prince. Someone missed this.Lol move up difficulties and say that again. CV is currently by far the most AI-performance based VC.
Liberty finisher and at the end your faith output is so high that you can go acoustics / printing press no problem and keep buying faith buildings.
At that pace he is probably not producing (m)any. Pardon my spelling, amphitheaters and the NE have slots. Oxford has slots. Cathedrals and Burial tombs (IIRC) have slots. There's probably other lurking slots too. I thought I was doing well with my slower approach to get out around turn 200. Overall, previous CVs required 5 trees. Now 2.5 trees, give or take, will do.Still don't know what to do with Writers and Artists. Do you culture bomb? (Well, at least one Artist has a slot in the Palace.
I tell ya though, after trying this out, that Sacred Site thing has to be broken...ha. I mean the comparison between this approach and a more standard CV approach is a gigantic gap.
If you decide to go this way, it would be nice to have some writings in place as well since they are basically on the same path and you could, in theory, reduce the number of cities or faith bought buildings needed depending on space and happiness.
Still don't know what to do with Writers and Artists. Do you culture bomb? (Well, at least one Artist has a slot in the Palace.
I tell ya though, after trying this out, that Sacred Site thing has to be broken...ha. I mean the comparison between this approach and a more standard CV approach is a gigantic gap.
Only domination so far. It's the first time of the serie that a victory can be achieved before the turn 200 without any difficulty at least from chieftain to immortal.
Yeah, trying this on Emperor, continents, with Byzantine and takes way too long to go through the culture trees. I have no idea if sacred sites is going to be there or not. Two civs have already gotten a reformation belief. Thinking poland might be the way to go with this one, even if you only get two religious buildings. I did a prior game with shoshone, using same strategy (from a different post) and ended up getting diplo victory on accident as some of the civs just had too much culture. I'm gonna keep tweaking it, but I'd like to know, if you're winning before turn 200, where you're getting the culture to get through nine social policies, even if you do get oracle.
UPDATE: Ok, I got sacred sites, thank god. This was kind of a map. Had a lot of tundra, no desert or jungle, so I went with the tundra pantheon. then the ocean I thought my capital was on was really just an inland sea, so my droman is just going around in circles.
Well you have to play it right. Expand fast and in places with faith tiles from your pantheon or natural wonders (even far away, you have to be aggresive planting cities), build monuments fast and build Oracle. Once you start buying pagodas/mosques your culture production rises a lot so you can get reformation soon.
It is easier to do with Maya, Ethiopia or Celts for the additional faith, with Poland for the 2 free policies or with Egypt for the happiness. You just need 33% more cities than with Byzantium to get the same tourism. Shoshone besides the faith/culture ruins gets no bonus to do this and the huge tiles expansion I guess will piss the AI more.