After a bit of a hiatus, I fired up CiV again with hopes of working up to Deity. I previously beat the game at King (granted I steamrolled with Portugal on an islands map) so I decided to jump in at Emperor.
I started a standard size fractal map with the Celts. I'm now in the industrial era and I'm at a bit of a crossroads. Currently I have a tall 4 city country. My religion is possibly the most prevalent in the world (3 countries and several city states under sway). With my science city picking up steam and some successful espionage, I think I might be the tech leader now. Tradition and Piety trees are complete, and I'm working on Rationalism/Freedom now. I have most of the religious wonders, and I've picked up a couple of the renn/industrial science and cultural wonders. This is all to say that I do everything pretty well, but I'm not sure if I am good enough to win at any of them. About the only thing off the board for me is domination victory but I'm afraid if I don't start specializing now, I'll be stuck at second place to the eventual winner.
What is the best way for me to gauge which direction to go? I kinda feel science may be the path of least resistance, but I'm nervous a war would derail me there (it has been an oddly peaceful game so far.)
Thanks for any tips anyone can add.
I started a standard size fractal map with the Celts. I'm now in the industrial era and I'm at a bit of a crossroads. Currently I have a tall 4 city country. My religion is possibly the most prevalent in the world (3 countries and several city states under sway). With my science city picking up steam and some successful espionage, I think I might be the tech leader now. Tradition and Piety trees are complete, and I'm working on Rationalism/Freedom now. I have most of the religious wonders, and I've picked up a couple of the renn/industrial science and cultural wonders. This is all to say that I do everything pretty well, but I'm not sure if I am good enough to win at any of them. About the only thing off the board for me is domination victory but I'm afraid if I don't start specializing now, I'll be stuck at second place to the eventual winner.
What is the best way for me to gauge which direction to go? I kinda feel science may be the path of least resistance, but I'm nervous a war would derail me there (it has been an oddly peaceful game so far.)
Thanks for any tips anyone can add.