Tomorrow's Dawn
Heroes Never Die
There is no such disinclination, except for China. There was a little bug in that system (the AI was told to only accept a tech if someone else than China knew it, but it only took civs it had contact with into account, which often meant it thought the tech was unique to China when in fact India etc. knew it), but that's fixed now. And even then I was able to keep a realistic tech lead as China with Great Wall in 400 AD and the cathedral goal before 800 AD (Monarch).
Really? Because I've been experiencing many civs not willing to trade with me as other civs, such as England or France. And was it on Normal speed?
I agree, in most of my games I decide that GP are too useful to me to use Agrarianism. But it should have an economic downside, maybe reduced trade routes or trade yield?
-1 Commerce per coastal route sounds good.
Good point, although no one forces you to go all out on your neighbours right from the start
It's not possible to finish the UHV unless you start right away.
Spain spams cities all over Iberia and England is a runaway AI
if nobody does anything about them early on.