One of the reasons I started playing Civ was that although war is a big part of the game, its entirely possible to win by other peaceful means. In fact there are more ways of winning without a war than with one
I like building, diplomacy and trading and consider a good game to have avoided any wars from 4000BC to the endgame (barring the odd barbarian skirmish). I hate games with protracted warfare.
I also like the biggest maps - probably for the same reason since the bigger the map the more likely you are to avoid a war.
I remember one game I was well behind everyone in techs - on my own little island with little resources and I won by Space Race (barely) by using trading and espionage alone. Nobody landed on my island the entire game since they were all trying to kill each other off and I was smallfry...
Has anyone got a vanilla v1.22 space race conquests save I can use to test if the patch sorted the video out? If I know its still broken I'll know not to bother with Space Race attempts then. Thanks in advance.