Recent content by argblarg3

Yes, it definitely wasn't very well thought out, but as it stands right now the commerce branch is already dwarfing many of the others.

I think you might have encountered a bug. I have definitely liberated city states.

I could not disagree more with the idea that commerce is a weak policy tree. Mabalogna made a nice summary of the benefits. Unlocking Big Ben, the 25% reduction of purchasing costs for everything, the +34 happiness for the final social policy, and the huge gold boost that the commerce finisher...

I also really love Poland, but I am trying to avoid playing them too much because switching from them back to other civs with normal policy gaining feels agonizing.

Not necessarily a cheat. I have had my workers/settlers ignored by barbarians before. It doesn't happen too often though, and I'm not exactly sure what causes it.

It is a social policy in the piety tree that unlocks reformation belief.

I did do a few "dry runs," that only lasted 100 or so turns, these were just the games I actually completed. I confess my Poland game was mostly a lucky start (plenty of salt), I was sort of trying for a cultural win as Portugal too but when I looked at my tourism it would've taken an eternity...

Not really. The only game I decided which victory before about turn 200 was as Morocco. Even then though, things could've been planned out quite a bit better.

All played on emperor: Portugal on large continents - diplo in 338 Poland on standard panagea - cultural in 333 Morocco on standard pangaea - domination in 313