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They definitely get three (one at writing and two from specialists), if you're getting four you've messed up somewhere because the game should be over already. All true, but now take account of the fact that Babylon will be five or ten turns quicker to education than Korea, and that the first...

Build them both after the national college.

A combo I use a lot is using a GE to build the statue of liberty right as I finish replacable parts, taking the Rationalism finisher as my free policy and then taking Plastics as my free tech.

The religious tolerance thing isn't a bug though. It's doing what it's supposed to.

You need to research Wheel, the tech that allows you to build roads, it enables city connections.

The actual city must be on the coast, the privateer must be in contact with the city, not just the borders.

It doesn't. It gives three beakers and a free tech. +50% would just be a win button I think.

Shoshone are pretty mediocre on water maps, so they're not top tier.

Trade route value is 5% of the gpt of the two cities plus whatever bonuses you get from buildings. So basically the better the GPT of the city, the more trade routes it will attract.

Map size effects cultural victory, you tech a little faster once you've met everyone, there's more competition for wonders, and if the culture leader is on the opposite side of a huge map it's a pain in the ass to walk your musicians all that way.

It depends on your starting dirt. Food heavy is better for a one city national college, hammer heavy works better with expansion.

It's nice to get, but not essential. I'd strongly consider it if I've got four or more marble or stone on grassland. Getting such powerful tiles (MoH + Stoneworks + Stone circles = 2 food, 3 hammers, 2 gold and 2 faith on grassland stone, 2 food, 2 hammers, 4 gold and 2 faith on marble) so early...

Two things. One, you "stormed the Romans out of the map." Annihilating another civ completely carries a huge diplomatic penalty. Two, you took a city state during your war with the US. Killing CSs also carries huge diplomatic penalties.

Two pathfinders right away. Take culture first, then pop, tech, weapons, pop, faith. Steal some workers, build some settlers. The ability to get everything so fast, to have five pop so early, to have lots of production tiles to work to get the settlers out, to get enough faith for a pantheon...

I use the 5 power civs, Maya, Babylon, Poland, Korea and Shoshone a lot. Besides them I use Celts, Aztecs, Carthage, Byzantium, Huns, Songhai & Austria. I don't really have a favourite. I like to go wide warmonger with the celts, dropping half a dozen cities with liberty and being pretty much...

Buying a lighthouse is great, but it's 400 gold. A fishing boat is 240, you have to meet ten city states, or pilage a caravan or something to come up with the extra 160 gold in a timely manner. The fishing boat allows you to sell the lux you improve, enhancing your GPT alongside the extra food...

Ally city states and run specialists. That is all.

I occasionally play an optics start, if I've got four or more sea resources. Scout, scout, shrine, grannary, workboat, lighthouse, settler, settler. Buy a workboat as soon as possible. Get GoTS as soon as possible. Sell your sea luxuries as soon as you get them and keep buying boats, keep the...

About world religion: if you spread aggressively early you'll convert the non religious civs who are likely to be early game war mongers, (Genghis, Alex, Monte) make one of them host and it's not unlikely that they'll propose it for you.

The thing about taking mosques or pagodas is that if you're spending faith on them then you're not spending faith on spreading your religion. Getting good spread is very powerful when pursuing a cultural victory. It gives you improved retention of CS, a positive diplo modifier with all civs who...