I seem to have offended you. But to be quite clear here, the OP asked what we thought. I am not here to tell you or anyone what to do sir. I could care less how he or you plays the game.
Anyways, no need to respond again, I think we each have a view that is not close.
This is interesting, but I am too kind to do that, at least, my difficulty does not demand to do it. Additionally, I pretty often give away workers to the native civ, that I have recaptured from barbarians, do you do this or take it for yourself?
I think the best way around this would be to create another difficulty level between EMPEROR (which I find to be too easy) and IMMORTAL (which is sometimes too difficult). I do this because I don't start off with workers and EVERY OTHER CIV does on IMMORTAL. If I started off with one too, then IMMORTAL would be perfect IMO.
I guess beelining science is also cheating because the AI is too dumb to prioritize it...
You will find people split on this issue. I fall on the side of it being cheating. The way it is now, there is no doubt it is cheating. However, it is your dollars play as you want.
No, because you can't get more than 2 promotions from fighting barbarians, presisely because otherwise you could xp farm them.@Hpuk does camp farming barbs as the aztecs qualify for #3
End of story, really. Thread over.The distinction people make between strategy and exploit is completely arbitrary.
The distinction people make between strategy and exploit is completely arbitrary. If you argue that doing any tactic that the AI is incapable of doing is "cheating", then it should be impossible to beat the game on King or higher without "cheating" because a non-"cheating" player is always going to be behind the AI unless they just win by dumb luck.
/thread and its variants are obviously an exploitive cheaty hack cheat mod. I don't care if you cheat, and you don't have to defend your opinion of it not being a glitchy cheatsploit just because I go out of my way to emanate a smug sense of superiority of being a player who avoids gameshark code console command cheats, which saying "Thread over" definitely is, since it's an indisputable fact. Countering this bare assertion with reasoned arguments is cheating.Thread over.