GoodSarmatian
Jokerfied Western Male
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Actually think it's intentional that Science, Culture and Diplomatic victories are more difficult to achieve. CV is easier to defend against... if you keep an eye on other civs influence over you, you can take steps to counter with GWs or boosting culture output via other means - CS, buildings, etc. And Wide empires are a little more penalized in the Science game to avoid serious runaway games. I have no complaints over the changes, myself. Think it adds more to the game (then again never did care for a game that lasted less than 500 turns...).
One of the issues/complaints that BNW set out to fix was that there is very little to do after a certain point in the game unless you go to war, so it was indeed intentional to prolong the post-renaissance game. It doesn't take more turns than pre-BNW in my experience, but it gives you more to do per turn. I don't think I ever won a culture victory earlier than 1800 befoer BNW, but I've managed it a couple of times since.