So im playing as Assyria, had a slightly unfortunate start, only being able to get 2 cities and the prospect of war was not particularly pleasing as the closest cities to me had the same luxuries and i was screened off from Shaka by a row of city states. So i thought having won my first game my traditional space race victory (emperor difficulty), i thought i would try for my first ever culture victory. Im not sure exactly how well its going. Im behind on science, but managed to snag broadway and Eiffel tower. Currently beelining towards internet and having just put up hotels, am starting to get towards 150 in tourism (no idea whether this is any good).
Anyway, this is slightly beside the point. Shaka has been warring practically since the beginning of them game and is massive! He has about 15-20 cities, killed off Morocco (well, i snagged their last 2 cities, but really he was the won who beat them), and is now getting very unfriendly with me and Indonesia. When i checked the culture victory progression, i noticed how much unhappiness he was suffering: -44
This was about the same time, maybe a bit before, people chose their ideologies. Firstly, i have never seen unhappiness like this before, and secondly, his empire was unsurprisingly awash with rebels. Then all of a sudden one of his core cities flipped to me (Bulawayo). Having never had this happened to me before, i was unsure whether it was in Gods & Kings or Vanilla. Unfortunately i panicked a bit and thought "well i have to take it", which resulted in me getting -11 , which took me a few turns to sort out. Now he has DOW'd and is going to retake it, which im not too upset about, but i thought i may as well have it for the extra tourism it would bring in (it had a few great works, so i figured i may as well get the benefit for a bit rather than him).
So, anyone had anything like this happen before, and has it been in since vanilla? It might just be that i have never seen it before. Also, does this demonstrate anything new about the AI and ideology (Shaka's happiness got worse after ideology to over -50, but he chose autocracy and 4 civs have freedom, with 1 on order)? Or is this just Shaka?
Reason i ask is that in my Morroco game he was a bit of a pacifist (well, the whole game was a bit passive TBH).
Anyway, this is slightly beside the point. Shaka has been warring practically since the beginning of them game and is massive! He has about 15-20 cities, killed off Morocco (well, i snagged their last 2 cities, but really he was the won who beat them), and is now getting very unfriendly with me and Indonesia. When i checked the culture victory progression, i noticed how much unhappiness he was suffering: -44
This was about the same time, maybe a bit before, people chose their ideologies. Firstly, i have never seen unhappiness like this before, and secondly, his empire was unsurprisingly awash with rebels. Then all of a sudden one of his core cities flipped to me (Bulawayo). Having never had this happened to me before, i was unsure whether it was in Gods & Kings or Vanilla. Unfortunately i panicked a bit and thought "well i have to take it", which resulted in me getting -11
, which took me a few turns to sort out. Now he has DOW'd and is going to retake it, which im not too upset about, but i thought i may as well have it for the extra tourism it would bring in (it had a few great works, so i figured i may as well get the benefit for a bit rather than him).So, anyone had anything like this happen before, and has it been in since vanilla? It might just be that i have never seen it before. Also, does this demonstrate anything new about the AI and ideology (Shaka's happiness got worse after ideology to over -50, but he chose autocracy and 4 civs have freedom, with 1 on order)? Or is this just Shaka?
Reason i ask is that in my Morroco game he was a bit of a pacifist (well, the whole game was a bit passive TBH).
