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Isn't that the point? They are poorly designed.
If they're so beatable, maniplatable (is that a word), and/or they tend to fail from mid-game on, doesn't that make them poorly designed?
Zulus poorly designed I think
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Isn't that the point? They are poorly designed.
If they're so beatable, maniplatable (is that a word), and/or they tend to fail from mid-game on, doesn't that make them poorly designed?
Guys his point isn't that he can't beat zulus, it's that every single game the zulus just end up taking over the other AIs which suggests that zulus might be poorly designed.
I don't find that it happens every game so meh I don't think it matters that much. Certainly when shaka does well, he does REALLY well, like Rome, but sometimes he just gets stopped instantly and just dies in his little corner with the entire world hating him. I don't think the designers were at all concerned in how well the AI civs would do against each other when balancing them, because it's mostly irrelevant.
I don't find that it happens every game so meh I don't think it matters that much. Certainly when shaka does well, he does REALLY well, like Rome, but sometimes he just gets stopped instantly and just dies in his little corner with the entire world hating him. I don't think the designers were at all concerned in how well the AI civs would do against each other when balancing them, because it's mostly irrelevant.
Even for a domination game where I mass build archers/CB I don't have -gpt until I start taking cities, but then again the extra city is required for increasing unit cap which is really the problem here. How else will I find the gold to upgrade into CB? And only in these domination game I would bother with currency, but I still don't build them until I have at least conquered capitals. Perhaps you're losing money because you have too many roads. City connection won't generate enough gold if the cities are too small by the way, and many times workers have more important things to do such as stragetic resource/lux than spend time on roads anyway. By the way, 2-3 CB is not even enough for taking cities, you need much much more than that.
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The only time beelining Currency is a viable options is when you're trying to get Petra on Deity 
No, because they are no different than any of the civs on Immortal (except Greeks, some of the time). Deity games can be tougher but good players tend not to differentiate one civ from another. Should they all be unbeatable, then? No, it would not be a 4x strategy game.
The only time beelining Currency is a viable options is when you're trying to get Petra on Deity
But then on deity, you can trade route science leech and get it much earlier than you can otherwise.
Most early gold comes from trading luxes and strategics for gpt. I have been as high as 50gpt at t50 (standard) before. Building a few troops won't change this significantly, especially if you went tradition (garrisoned troops have no maintence)
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