Recent content by goodolarchie

On the science side I would say Currency. Getting Comm hubs and trade routes up quickly has been central to every Deity victory I've had, regardless of the type.

I really wish they had a "resume trade route" button/hotkey. Towards the end of the game it gets to be ridiculous reevaluating 50-100 different options every few turns.

"Bulbs" in general are an aggregate of the last ~8 turns (speed dependent.) GW = sum(8 turns of culture), GS = sum(8 turns of sci), GM (8 turns of tourism) etc. This is why it's optimal to burn GS bulbs 8 turns after getting your research labs (and possibly order t2 factories), writers after a...

For the masochists who DO want to get TGL on Deity (it's fun to get just once, only to see how lackluster it ends up being in the longrun), here's a few ideas on how I was able to get it fairly reliably by ~T32 (standard), which is still a big gamble: (I would never recommend these as viable...

Achievements really. It's also hard to benchmark improvement unless you play with the exact same thing against a baseline (read: modless)

Quick combat and Quick movement. There's actually a mod that turns this on-and-off for AI turns so you can bask in the splendor of watching a tank disappear after a volley of arrows.

Sounds like OP is looking for more of life advice (how to enjoy a game that can only compete with human brain by giving severe AI handicaps) than in-game advice. I would argue that being put "on your toes" when stepping into a less-than-ideal start in a Deity game and being able to walk away...

TGL on Deity and even Immortal seems lucrative, especially using it to slingshot straight to National College. The trouble with this mindset is that, as the human player in this game, you start out so severely disadvantaged that a free tech does very little, and has an immense opportunity cost...

A few general tips for any difficulty: GA's are generally best served for golden ages, especially with chichen, and even moreso if AI beats you to uffizi, louvre etc. France may be the one exception to this, but I don't play them on Deity. There are basically 3 "viable" ways to get tourism...

Do you have a changelog out there anywhere? I noticed v17 was just pushed out.. Very interesting mod btw, trying a Deity culture game..

Pulling ahead in Ren Era and keeping that lead usually boils down to: 1) DoF management, and timing your RA's with.. 2) Espionage tech steals, choosing the right AI to steal from. Watching deal history and esp. screen in tandem with jockeying your research queue is the way to min/max...

Deity petra tech order looks like: set up embassies in all caps. Do they have desert? Zoom in and look around T45-55 for a standing-horseshoe shape going up. Wave goodbye to Petra. There are plenty of times AI won't have desert in cap, and if it's in City #2 it seems to go around T75...

The tooltip is misleading, but like Sonic said it's about lessening the blow of a high-tourism AI of another ideology. Another way to think about using the vote buying - instead of trying to pay him exorbitant amounts of cash to vote on something he hates, pay him next to nothing to vote for...

Not if there is a sizable imbalance in the AI culture accrual (when is there ever not?) and you are going culture. There's always some runaway civ with 35-38k culture by T275, and concert bombs are the answer to them. I keep seeing people saying that you cannot "stock up" on GM's but you most...

Hard to say best victory path but if only 3 of 9 have ideologies then it is still very much in reach. I see you have unhappiness and probably would take on some civil disob. with Order, at the outset. One thing to keep in mind about Order is that is has MASSIVE national happiness straight...