this has got to be the most frustrating map I ever restarted 10 billion times without success ..
After hours of trial and error I can drop 7 cities before T65 with no happy issues in the near future + a religion + decent gpt, good shot at pyramids ..But settling too many cities is like 99% double DOW from the freak pair ..Last hope is to try and placate them with minor gifts and join them in phony wars against distant AIs to delay the INEVITABLE back-stabs ..Perhaps buy enough time to get some decoy units to intimidate them long enough until the hate for settling dies off ..
Happy, culture, gpt not an issue (although it is a rather poor map starting location resource wise) -> the freak pair is the issue ..I'll give it a few more shots ..
After hours of trial and error I can drop 7 cities before T65 with no happy issues in the near future + a religion + decent gpt, good shot at pyramids ..But settling too many cities is like 99% double DOW from the freak pair ..Last hope is to try and placate them with minor gifts and join them in phony wars against distant AIs to delay the INEVITABLE back-stabs ..Perhaps buy enough time to get some decoy units to intimidate them long enough until the hate for settling dies off ..
Happy, culture, gpt not an issue (although it is a rather poor map starting location resource wise) -> the freak pair is the issue ..I'll give it a few more shots ..