I have Civ 4 with no expansions and update 1.73(?) installed.
I'm trying to win a pacifist strategy that seems to always foil between 1700AD and 1900AD. My most recent game pretty much sums them all up. I got a really good starting position on a very long and curving river (3 cities eventually built on it) with access to stone. Playing the Chinese civ with Financial and Industrious on level Noble. I was able to build 8 cities and then went nuts with the villages, by year 1500 or so I'm 0% on economy, 70% science, and 30% culture. Most cities have every +culture/+happy/+money building possible. My neighbors are Rome and Greece and they're both pleased with me through constant trade. My civics are all at the bottom -- all the enlightened stuff. I'm about 5 techs in front of the rest of the pack and everything is running fine when the Greeks attack with about 3 zillion pieces.
Well, I couldn't build all that stuff previously mentioned without skimping somewhere, and that's my military. Each of my cities only has 1-2 pieces defending. This is the obvious place to point a finger; but, how much defense do I really need to keep pleased and well paid off neighbors from attacking me?
Not sure how much the AI thinks, but perhaps my cities are a threat since they're generating so much culture it's basically an attack on any neighboring civ's border cities.
Is this just overall a bad strat, or does it just need some minor tweaking?
I'm trying to win a pacifist strategy that seems to always foil between 1700AD and 1900AD. My most recent game pretty much sums them all up. I got a really good starting position on a very long and curving river (3 cities eventually built on it) with access to stone. Playing the Chinese civ with Financial and Industrious on level Noble. I was able to build 8 cities and then went nuts with the villages, by year 1500 or so I'm 0% on economy, 70% science, and 30% culture. Most cities have every +culture/+happy/+money building possible. My neighbors are Rome and Greece and they're both pleased with me through constant trade. My civics are all at the bottom -- all the enlightened stuff. I'm about 5 techs in front of the rest of the pack and everything is running fine when the Greeks attack with about 3 zillion pieces.
Well, I couldn't build all that stuff previously mentioned without skimping somewhere, and that's my military. Each of my cities only has 1-2 pieces defending. This is the obvious place to point a finger; but, how much defense do I really need to keep pleased and well paid off neighbors from attacking me?
Not sure how much the AI thinks, but perhaps my cities are a threat since they're generating so much culture it's basically an attack on any neighboring civ's border cities.
Is this just overall a bad strat, or does it just need some minor tweaking?
