Turns 300-310
On turn #301 Ramesses DoWs on Gilga. This is also NOT want I wanted. Damnit. Is there nothing that can go right for me today?
The only good thing is Gilga demanded another 2000+ gold from me. I love it. I would have given him 10K if he wanted.
Anyhow, I keep having to ignore joining wars, and this is what is hurting me with more negative modifiers. Jeeze, why is it the ONE GAME where I DONT want any wars to go on, is the ONE game where EVERYONE wants to fight a war? This is just insane.
And every freiken time I get enough votes converted in my favour, SOMEONE has to switch into a wrong civic right when the vote comes up and screw me out of a win without fail. What luck. I keep sending boats of spies all over and there is always something that goes wrong at the worst time. Murphies law of Civ IV.
I have to keep re-converting these guys over and over again.
Surely, there must be a better way to win a game than this
Turns 310-220
I gave Gila a few more thousand gold to make peace with other AIs. I dont know why I bother anymore. He just re-dows on someone else right after and then messes up part of my whole diplo triangulation all over again.
And of course, every time the votes came up, SOMEONE would have to switch civics AGAIN just to have an excuse not to vote for me. So sick
thats all that ever happens each time.
Even Brenus lost his friendly status with me due to me being forced not to give into his demand of attacking someone or such nonsense.
This game is definitely stressing every one of my options here
Also
some more bad news. Trying to re-convert people over for the millionth time is actually costing me a lot of diplo modifiers itself! On the forum elsewhere I read that if you keep spies in a boat, they dont get caught. I can tell you at least in Deity that is BS. I am getting caught and caught and caught. And I dont mean just caught, I mean the AIs even get to identify who I am a lot of times, which is costing me negative diplo relations due to my Spies causing trouble.
So by trying to get + relations, I am getting - relations. How
. Wonderfull.
Just look at this terrible luck Im putting up with
Turns 320-323
Well, what do you know. FINALLY after about the hundredth freiken time, we finally get it to all click. Well, maybe not all of it clicked, my spies failed yet AGAIN to convert Wang to caste, which meant he ended up voting for Sal again instead of me. That wasnt so bad because at least everyone else was good enough to tip me across that finish line with quite a bit of votes left still to spare.
By the way, Even though Gilga isnt friendly with me, he still voted because the averaging with his vassal. Also, Wang is really much happier with me than cautious. This is because Firaxis LIES. You need to understand the hidden modifiers and how they work
But once you do, its straight-forward.
Ironically, Ramesse never even completed corporations. Hell, he may have it after another 25 turns, after all the stuff I gave him, haha. He was STILL spending all his cash on culture
what an idiot!
That said, we had a hell of a lot of problems this time around, but in the end we still pulled it off. Standard maps are so satisfying when that happens. But now I dont see what there is to get excited about in the next game, when surely things will be a cakewalk in comparison?
I think I will probably chose the American industrious leader for that game. It seems he is always rated at the bottom by 99% of the middle-rank players. Obviously, industrious is a big reason for this. But also the fact that his UB doesnt come until very late of the game. And more importantly, his UU also doesnt come until the game is practically over. And to top it off, it is a real niche UU that doesnt even have anything going for it either. Well, these last couple of reasons actually do have some good truths to them.
But I already played without a UU this game so I guess I wont be missing out on too much then.
. Still a lot of benefits to help the limited A"Intelligence" counter the human brain-enabled race to catch up to the initial AI head start. Note that this is not solely a deity thing, the discounts per era increase from prince (1%) to deity (5%).
for the human in a normal speed game)
then 5 turns later my spaceship landed. Oh the humanity!!
