The Deity Challenge Line-up #18 - Babylon OCC

Interesting game, I have never played OCC before. A few highlights from the game:
Germans were really annoying, settled a city very close and then covet my lands. I had to bribe others to DoW them since they denounced me a few times and they were ready to attack me.
The 1st WLTKD resource was spices which I got only around T150 or so.
The first vote for +33% artist generation and -33% scientist generation was sadly passed.
I got 2nd place in WF and IG which was fine by me.
Ideological pressure was not a problem despite Freedom being chosen only by me.
After T200 the world became a mess, plenty of wars and denouncements left and right from AIs towards each other. I stayed friends only with Inca.
I also build a few nukes otherwise Americans and Germans would DoW me for sure. Before that only bribes stopped them. But for the whole game it was impossible to bribe them to DoW each other which would help since we are on the same continent.
I bought all space parts and in the end I took a loan from Inca but did not really need it. They had like 45K in their bank.
I had a few waves of RA with Inca and America, and once with Assyria.
No AI even started building space parts, wars were helpful to slow them down.

Wonders:
From early wonders I got only Oracle and HS. From renaissance Pisa, Sistine and PT. And all the usual ones from later eras.

Policies: Full Trad, Rationalism, Aesthetics opener, A few in patronage and commerce.
Ideology: Freedom
Religion: Pantheon +1 faith from salt; +1 gold for every 4 followers, 15% growth; wonders +2 faith and messiah.



Thanks for the map.

If replays count, I don't really know. Don't really care that much about record times.

A completely different game now. Japan killed France and Zulu, and Germany and America went for culture rather than science. I went whoring all the "good" wonders this time, got

Temple of Artemis
Hanging Gardens
Oracle
Pisa
Porcelain Tower
Big Ben
Neusch
Statue of Liberty
Eiffel
Redentor
Broadway

Most of which I built out of spite because I missed Alhambra by 1 turn. It turned out Germany was pissed because they wanted all that so he invaded me at one point, his Riflemen were kind of embarrassed by my Infantry. Ashur DoWs as well but his units never really take off to my continent so that was a dud. In the end I just took many many gold from Incas and paid them all to vote for me. Also I obviously bribed every CS on the map

I had much more GSs now and I probably would have launched within 300, but I figured, let me try this instead.

Oh and, I forgot to mention one thing. Germany proposed the CS embargo. Why would they deliberately gimp themselves??

Great starting location, took the observatory/hill/river location. 3 salt, the magical luxury resource.

Planted the first GS on horses by accident, because I got the GS before Animal Husbandry. Did not appear that Great Library was possible on my playthough, went around Turn 30.



Allied 2-3 Maritime CS most of the game, one culture CS, 2 faith CS mid-game onward.

2 Worker Steals from Germany
6 Academies
2 Faith Great Scientists

Heavy focus on Research agreements (had 5 going at one point, seemed like that was the limit in my game, due to wars between AI).

Tricky diplomacy with Bismarck the whole game, paid him to attack Washington first, then Assyria, then denounced Assyria after RA went through. Also denounced France when he was dogpiled. America also went Freedom, but had to deny Friendship requests late-game to avoid hate for him transferring to me.

Religion (never enhanced):
Fertility Rites
Tithe
Swords to Plowshares

Wonders:
Big Ben
Forbidden Palace (diplo victory was a backup plan)
Hanging Gardens
Temple of Artemis
Leaning Tower (Picked GS)
Oracle
Porcelain Tower
Statue of Liberty
Taj Mahal
Hubble
Oracle

Did NOT get Chichen Itza. Too bad, it would have turbo-boosted the game



I unlocked the OCC achievement, so obviously no experience playing this game type at all. No way I was going to try culture on my first OCC playthrough though.

Part of my last GS bulb was wasted, so I am certain at least a sub-250 science victory is possible on this map for someone with more OCC experience. No idea what the correct number of academies is, but 6 seemed to work pretty well.

Played the game pertty quickly, compared to most games. Probably about 1% of the clicks of my China DCL playthrough.

Purchased 4 spaceship parts, built 2.

I was initially going for a SV, but it was going too slowly and I had control over most of the City States that I decided to end it via DV.
This was my first Diety game - I normally play Emperor. Decided to register just to post my victory (didn't have many other screenshots as didn't think I would win)