this was an outstanding post. i immediately started a diplo game, and unfortunately still lost. well, gave up after i realized i'd never get the vote--although i was winning the game overall.
what i found is that it was near impossible to overcome the relations the civs had with each other. it was easy to get the civs that started on my continent in line...lots of trading and getting one of them to switch to my religeon did the trick, even with the civ i went to war with early on. where i ran into trouble was when the other civs found us. because of their religeons, they were hated by my allies from the outset. this meant that i couldn't trade with them or i'd lose the vote of my allies. their religeon never spread to my civ either, so that was also out of the question--even if i could afford the negative effect with my existing allies.
how do you overcome this? do you trade with them anyway, and live with deficit on your other allies' relations? i also read in a recent post on this thread that each civ only has ONE other civ that's their "worst enemy". this would make things easier...
i wasn't able to convince anyone to switch civics, even when they were pleased with me. i guess you have to be "friendly" at least?
what i found is that it was near impossible to overcome the relations the civs had with each other. it was easy to get the civs that started on my continent in line...lots of trading and getting one of them to switch to my religeon did the trick, even with the civ i went to war with early on. where i ran into trouble was when the other civs found us. because of their religeons, they were hated by my allies from the outset. this meant that i couldn't trade with them or i'd lose the vote of my allies. their religeon never spread to my civ either, so that was also out of the question--even if i could afford the negative effect with my existing allies.
how do you overcome this? do you trade with them anyway, and live with deficit on your other allies' relations? i also read in a recent post on this thread that each civ only has ONE other civ that's their "worst enemy". this would make things easier...
i wasn't able to convince anyone to switch civics, even when they were pleased with me. i guess you have to be "friendly" at least?