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Yeah that's a good point about lack of religion on the player's continent being the biggest challenge. In that case I can make some guesses on who you would put on the other continent to found ALL the religions... But we'll see!

Good plan, getting away from the coast reduces the risk of killing seafood tiles.

"I wanted to avoid ones that value religion high, such as Monty, to reduce shared religion bonus" The idea that Monty has a high shared religion bonus is a myth. His religion approach is a LOT more stick than carrot...

Great. Fyi the 'first impression' never goes away. It is somewhat random from game to game but some leaders are inherently friendlier (that's the innate modifier). Zara usually starts at +2 first impression, which is why he's a good target, only needs 8 more for friendly. Maybe that's what...

This thread is really useful for understanding diplomatic parameters of each AI: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-illustrated-1-know-your-enemy.478563/ Besides the basic like "years of peace... " , "open borders", the fastest ways to boost diplo include: - lopsided trades in their...

I like that list, (non resource) mines are notably not in it, and indeed we rarely mine after chopping becomes available, unless e.g. going for a wonder. Re: connecting to a neighbor is really good at high levels when they have a lots of cities early. And sometimes early-ish sailing is worth it...

I don't think discussion of what's visible from the start needs to be in spoilers. With either Agri or The Wheel as starting techs, I think going early pottery would be more competitive than in this particular case. I still probably wouldn't do it at high difficulty levels because the lack of...

Academy is not great for culture because the opportunity cost is 4000 culture from a great artist instead, and you stop teching after liberalism usually. Bulb for philo is probably the best use for a GS, and then if you must win lib faster (which is not always the limiting factor), Edu partial...

Yup definitely, and even with settle on sugar we have 3 other calendar resources serving as super cottages until the tech is unlocked.

Only civs that are friendly or your vassals will vote for your victory. On the victory condition screen, you need to click diplomatic victory on the bottom right instead of apostolic palace resident.

I don't think it's macro vs micro necessarily because, for example with micro wasting a worker turn is less a big deal in marathon but losing an early unit to a barb due to a misstep is more serious. Most things scale with speed except unit movement doesn't scale at all and unit costs in...

Based on your comment maybe you would enjoy the Realism Invictus mod if you don't know it already.

@sampsa I'm surprised theatre is not one tier down.

My thoughts: - Capital location is good, unfortunately I think 2nd city on gold is a clear mistake (maintenance, amount of worker turns spent, gold is 2 tiles away so had to grow borders? and no food). Cities 3 and 4 are good, maybe there was a way to fit another city in, but you can...

Doesn't seem like that screenshot is with BUG though, is number city naming baseline?

If they liked the other civ too much the message is usually "we won't betray our close friends". Both of course it could be both in which case I'm not sure what message comes out in priority . There is also "we would have nothing to gain", or "we fear their military might".

Look at the culture bar at the bottom left of the city screen. When it reaches certain levels (10, 100, etc. on normal speed) the city 'levels up' and its borders expand by one tile around it unless those tiles are controlled by someone else. That's popping borders. Importantly when you do...

Yes just get your city to at least 10 culture, when you see its borders grow, and then you'll get the horses back fairly quickly. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/plot-culture-mechanics.633767/ If you hover over a tile you will see the percentage culture for each civ on it, and those...

I think if you have vassals and he doesn't like them it decreases his attitude but that's hidden from the shown modifiers. That's different from just the usual negative modifier 'our rivals are vassals'