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I know I should be stealing a worker early because it's so superior to not doing that (free worker, no consequences), but a lot of the time I end up just buying one instead.

A wonder that gave permanent vision everywhere would be interesting, but would potentially be a nightmare when playing with unit animations on. I guess the easiest way to fix that would be to simply only show unit animations in areas that your units and cities would be able to see without the...

Does the AI take advantage of Arsenal of Democracy's influence boost at all? I've never seen anything that suggests that they were, and certainly not to even a tiny fraction of the extent that a human player can and will. Similarly, it's not obvious to me that the AI ever really uses Gunboat...

Maybe this opinion is just silly, and it feels weird to call it directly "powerful" but I feel like the Nau belongs in the conversation because having it as a unique unit basically gives coastal cities an incredibly efficient gold production option. It feels totally unfair. There are other UU...

Okay, finally feel like I've got enough noodling done that I can give reasonable ratings. 4 - Charitable Missions: Influence boosts from Gold gifts to City-States are increased by 30%. This felt like an enormous bonus, although I'm not sure if it really adds up to THAT much gold if you're not...

This is maybe too much of an overhaul, but here's what I'd like to see: * At some point - after a few civs have ideologies, most likely, but long before a cultural victory is on the table - all of the city-states adopt ideologies. They try to adopt the ideology of their ally if possible, but...

I actually like the idea of Canada, but it has a much smaller economy than Brazil. Prior to Brazil's inclusion in the game, it was far and away the largest modern economy not represented. (Though ironically, given Brazil's ingame focus, Canada does attract more international visitors each year...

I feel like I definitely have more wiggle room at the beginning of the game. In G&K, I felt like the early game had to be carefully managed, playing my cards right to avoid not getting crushed right away or falling behind and getting crushed shortly after that. In BNW, I feel like that's only...

I don't know that Firaxis did this intentionally, and I certainly can't speak for everybody, but in the parts of the world that are covered by the Polynesian in-game civ that I'm most familiar with, people don't really identify themselves as strongly as associated with particular towns/cities as...

I think you could get an Archaeologist there by filling up a large area of the map around it with Archaeologists or other civilian units, putting an archaeologist near the border of the closest non-open-borders, not-at-war civ, and waiting for their borders to expand, pushing the Archaeologist...

I feel like Castro is tricky, because he's not only still alive, but was in power until just a few years ago. Currently, the most recent leaders in the game are Gandhi, who's not only been dead for over 60 years, but who's almost universally considered a hero, and Haile Selassie, who's 35 years...

Culture and tourism are BOTH offense and BOTH defense in terms of defending yourself from ideological pressure. The oft-repeated notion that tourism is the offense and culture is the defense applies only to winning a cultural victory, where other people's influence over you doesn't make any...

I agree that it's a little bit odd that it sort of stands out as the one wonder quote that's kind of negative about what it represents. (There are plenty of tech quotes that poke fun at what they represent.) Broadway's quote is a bit cynical, but it's New York humor. Similarly, the CN Tower has...

I would use this constantly. If I'm being greedy, it would be nice if clicking on the "We love the king" demanded resource in a city also snapped to the world map with sources of that resource highlighted. I would also make tons of use of a city-states summary screen that showed more detailed...

Even on maps that aren't tiny island maps, as long as there's multiple continents, Polynesia has access to more potential trading partners from the get-go, ones that aren't stressed about your borders and are less likely to have luxuries in common with you. (Having five citrus doesn't do you...

They actually talked about this a little bit, but realized that it'd ultimately be far too complex. There are many civilizations in the game that don't have very many surviving bits of writing and/or specific musical works and/or specific pieces of art, and for many that do exist the creator's...

There's so many Civs in the game that at this point I'd be more interested in cultures and people groups that are more "out there" in terms of distinctiveness, rather than just adding the next-most-important European/Asian/African/Old Timey Middle-Eastern Civ. I'm also interested in Civs that...

This is one of the most oft-repeated bits of misinformation since BNW's launch. It's wrong, and is a path straight to piles of unhappiness. Tourism serves as defense against enemy tourism, because unhappiness is generated based on the DIFFERENCE in influence between your civ and another civ...

If the AI left its entire military embarked near the north pole instead of using it to defend its cities with the exception of a handful of very military-oriented civs, which would occasionally noodle around with actually defending themselves or using their armies for conquest before basically...

Can somebody who understands math and SP cost-scaling better than I do math out the relative value of Christo Redentor's -10% culture cost for new policies compares against the Free Policy offered by Statue of Liberty, Sydney Opera House, Prora and Kremlin? I realize that their other effects are...