redwings1340
Emperor
The diplomatic victory condition seems ridiculously overpowered to me, at least on Emperor or below levels right now. Without an official religion or a forbidden palace, I got 13 votes extra to get the diplomatic victory. Currently in this game I am close to the cultural victory and not really near the science victory, but this is the third time the world leaders vote has come up where I've had enough to win (I abstained on the first two votes because I wanted to win a different way).
I feel like in multiplayer games, this is probably a good target, as someone dominating the world congress in this way is unlikely with other players in the game, but when playing against the computer, I feel that +3 or +4 for globalization, host, a world ideology or (possibly and) religion, and every city state should be the base minimum for diplo victory, giving people the possibility to get more votes by the way world leader voting works (+1 vote for the top two votegetters every time I think) and by the Forbidden Palace.
Thoughts? This victory just seems inevitable for me in recent games, as I've found that city states are just so strong even without this victory condition, and I've wanted them all to make sure I don't get messed up in the world congress.