Acken
Deity
Yep AI approach and opinion only change on its turn among many other diplomacy updates. And trade value is a functon of it
Well since I founded 13 cities with The Celts, and have yet to build their UB, and have had no major happiness issues, I can confirm that it is certainly possible to build more than 4 cities.
How? Well, look at the sources of happines.
Luxuries. Does each city you settle have a unique lux? Have you traded your spare copies for unique that the AI has but you don't?
CS. Have you allied all that you can?
Buildings. Do you have a Circus, Colosseum, Stone Works everywhere you can get one?
Religion. Consider Asceticism or even better the Pagoda/Mosque/Cathedrals.
Social Policies. Commerce, Patronage, Liberty, Honor, Tradition, Exploration, all have happiness in them.
Ideology. Autocracy in particular is swimming in happiness.
If your population is growing too fast, consider reassigning some citizens to work hills, quarries, pastures and specialist slots instead of farms. Even merchant slots, the gold is better than food if you can't grow anyway, especially if you already have Secularism. You won't be losing too much then, 1 extra pop brings 2 base beakers if you have public schools, same as a Secularism specialist. Use the extra gold and production to get more happiness and grow your cities again. You can also change some food trade routes to hammer or international ones temporarily.
Religion is a big helper for one of the +2 happiness. Making coloseums and circus is normal. If you have happiness issues consider slowing down on growth for more peoduction.
Go to video settings and uncheck "fullscreen." I bought a new computer with a huge screen, and it was screwing my screenshots, until I changed to almost full screen window mode.(for some reason, my new ultra wide monitor isnt taking proper screen caps. theyre all complete black or only terrain, no details, and i cant figure out why.)
so im giving this a go for a wide CV using Siam. my plan is to get 6-8 cities (1-2 from brief early war, maybe) and ive got a map where i can get 6 pretty easy. (for some reason, my new ultra wide monitor isnt taking proper screen caps. theyre all complete black or only terrain, no details, and i cant figure out why.) so here's the save if you want to give it a try.