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It depends, something like pillage flipping (which actually doesn't have to do with gifting cities), farming Liberations on John Curtin or farming Eurekas on Alex are very simple and op strategies to the degree that I could see it being classified as exploit. But gifting away Cities in general...

Should it be considered an exploit to gift cities also outside of Religious Victories? By Gifting away cities and declaring war on the recipiants you can intentionally create pillages for yourself, that can be mine pillages for gold or, very commonly pillaging fully build campuses and IZ's at...

Before Gathering Storm the game ended with the information era (the future era requires a lot of science unless you're lucky) and you won SV by only building 3 projects instead of building 4 and then needing laser projects to speed up the travel rate until you actually win. Additionally...

I have a question about the rules, it says city gifting is an exploit for religious victory but is it still allowed for other VC like this ones SV?

oh yes he does also get science, I remember in my first Norway SV Gilga declared on me at some point and kept buying helicopters around t100. And somehow in my current playthrough, inspired by your thread, he is in it again.

I agree that it's super tedious, that's why I didn't try it more often despite it's enourmes potential.

By the end of the game techs cost about 2,5k science but gold pillages are worth around 650gold since norways science from a mine pillage is about 30% of the gold value so rounded up about 200 science. A single pillage flip city with only 10 mines produces 13k gold and 2k science every 2 turns...

Are you sure you can you can use alcazars to pillage flip? I know that unique tile improvements from Civs ( like ziggurats) definitly get removed when a city flips or gets conquered, and while I can't say I am 100% sure about city state tiles I believe those disapear aswell when a city flips

Nice to see another thread from you, I hope your mouse hand is ok as the biggest issue I had with my own 2 norway SV is that managing 5+ pillage flip cities requires 150-300 mouse clicks per turn

Seems pretty impossible without city chopping. While I am not on the same level as you or Atex, even just my few sub 150 standart setting games all rely on city chopping and pillage flipping because 7 AI just aren't enough even if they all builed campuses, considering you also need to pretty...

As always an amazing writup. I have been reading fastest sv HoF Thread and this thread for a while, trying to to improve my own game (just started to break through the sub 150s on standard settings) and it's incredibly to see how much time you put into sharing every detail of your game despite...