Well in my last game I just seemed to constantly fall behind and not be able to catch up at all to the other civilizations. This is playing at just emperor setting.
I played arabia at the "mesopotamia" map type. I started in the very south-east corner, with byzantium at egypt as my closest neighbour. I tried to go tall traditiion/piety option, and wish to explicitly not go for patronage or rational. (And also not go for diplomatic victory).
Now the problems actually started very soon: early game I kept being overrun by barbarians (like 4-5 camps were all aimed at me). So I couldn't develop my resources (my warrior was stuck behind enemy lines after byzantium closed of the Sinai with their second city).
To get an outpost at least a bit near to the rest, and to have a 4th luxury I settled my 3rd town next to Byzantium.
However from that moment on I kept getting negative points from byzantium (covert wonders, settling aggressive, converting religion). Now I wasn't too worried about that: byzantium was the weakest civ by far and doing trade routes resulted always in them getting more science (and I got 1 or 0).
The other civilizations were settling like madness (Poland, hun, inca austra, babylon, indonesia). However they never engaged in any war. I also, even with my 3rd city, could not reach those other civilizations with trade routes.
At 1850 byzantium finally declared war on me, I however was having an easy time with higher production and income. And using camel archers I took their capital, which was exactly as modern day cairo, and left them with only 1 town.
However from that moment onwards I got denounced by everyone and soon everyone was declaring war on me giving me the two important negative multiplier "covert wonders" and "warmongerer" (I did not declare war?).
How would I play such a game? Where I'm landlocked behind a civilization and can't grow using trade routes at all? And the rest of the world plays a peaceful liberty game?
I played arabia at the "mesopotamia" map type. I started in the very south-east corner, with byzantium at egypt as my closest neighbour. I tried to go tall traditiion/piety option, and wish to explicitly not go for patronage or rational. (And also not go for diplomatic victory).
Now the problems actually started very soon: early game I kept being overrun by barbarians (like 4-5 camps were all aimed at me). So I couldn't develop my resources (my warrior was stuck behind enemy lines after byzantium closed of the Sinai with their second city).
To get an outpost at least a bit near to the rest, and to have a 4th luxury I settled my 3rd town next to Byzantium.
However from that moment on I kept getting negative points from byzantium (covert wonders, settling aggressive, converting religion). Now I wasn't too worried about that: byzantium was the weakest civ by far and doing trade routes resulted always in them getting more science (and I got 1 or 0).
The other civilizations were settling like madness (Poland, hun, inca austra, babylon, indonesia). However they never engaged in any war. I also, even with my 3rd city, could not reach those other civilizations with trade routes.
At 1850 byzantium finally declared war on me, I however was having an easy time with higher production and income. And using camel archers I took their capital, which was exactly as modern day cairo, and left them with only 1 town.
However from that moment onwards I got denounced by everyone and soon everyone was declaring war on me giving me the two important negative multiplier "covert wonders" and "warmongerer" (I did not declare war?).
How would I play such a game? Where I'm landlocked behind a civilization and can't grow using trade routes at all? And the rest of the world plays a peaceful liberty game?
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