I'm sure there have already been many threads on this so I apologize, but how plausible is it to win Tourism without killing (or maiming) the highest culture-producing AI's?
Even if you don't technically achieve a military victory, if you end up winning Tourism by killing 2-3 civs, then that seems more like a military victory to me than a tourism one.
Is it very possible on a standard 6p game to just lay back and win tourism without killing the AI's? The last game I played, by the end of the game (T197) the highest culture AI was around 30,000 culture, and the second place AI was not far behind. Even with Broadcast Towers, Hotels, Airports in all my cities and the Internet, I was making about 400 a turn but it would have been a very long time (if ever) before I could have won. Instead I took a detour into science victory which was much less exciting.
Even if you don't technically achieve a military victory, if you end up winning Tourism by killing 2-3 civs, then that seems more like a military victory to me than a tourism one.
Is it very possible on a standard 6p game to just lay back and win tourism without killing the AI's? The last game I played, by the end of the game (T197) the highest culture AI was around 30,000 culture, and the second place AI was not far behind. Even with Broadcast Towers, Hotels, Airports in all my cities and the Internet, I was making about 400 a turn but it would have been a very long time (if ever) before I could have won. Instead I took a detour into science victory which was much less exciting.