Subsidies and Aggressive Trading Practices

A tactic, available to the human player but not to the AI, that gives a disproportionate advantage, often through a violation of the underlying logic of the game (e.g., being technologically more backward, by not researching Masonry, gives you a research advantage, in that a GP then gives you a better tech). Exploits are bad because they increase the handicap level required to make the game challenging, and they (generally) reduce the variety of successful play styles.

It seems to me the fix for this particular exploit is simple--just add masonry to the list of techs a GP can give. After all, masonry was needed to build all those religious buildings.
 
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