...but at least it was instructive as to what you can do when you have a ton of space and luxes.
Whatever lessens the map was trying to teach were totally lost on me. I tried wide Liberty (12, 9, then 7 cities, IIRC). I was always lagging well behind two or more AI, and not able to get SV done in time.
I still think there was something very odd with the AI behaviour. They did not expand properly until much later, and by then it was too late.
Anyone else see that? In my games, the AIs were (mostly) more peaceful (to me) than I expected, but they expanded like normal.
Turn 143 resign. I tried a wide approach but messed up everything. Barbarians were all over the place and they kept pillaging everything keeping me in pretty constant unhappiness.
I am happy to say that I managed the barbarians well enough, no need to open Honor for that. But this map frustrated more than any of the DCL so far. Usually it is the early DOW that gives me trouble, but that only happened in one of my attempts. The map looks easy enough, but I found it quite challenging. I guess the low production?