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Generous Neighbor: Will provide constant tributes of gold and luxuries to any civ that shares a border.

Oh god, we're still talking about Sweden? Is the Polynesia discussion coming back next? =P

This is post fall patch. Standard as in the setting is standard. You can roll up an atomic era game and see for yourself. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

great, glad it's working out better. in your celts game, the dublin expansion is very dubious. the whole point is to give the AI room to expand. in your china game, you couldn't do that, since your capital was positioned the way it was. In your Japan game, expanding south would put you in...

so, the second game looks like you just didn't get the religion set up fast enough. satuma would convert easily, as well as the CS, muang saluang, tokyo and si satchanalai (meaning, no missionaries needed on those). So, you would need only 2 missionaries to set up 4 pressure points, and you...

In a typical Tradition strategy, you start sending cargo ships right after aquaducts come up. Sending them before works at something like -43% efficiency (ultimately, as it reaches its limit); or you can see it as sending ships after aquaducts is +68% more effective. (not real math, just...

Yup. The guide mentions this in the discussion of Piety. It's poorly designed. If you have any source of culture at all, your policy rate will go faster than your ability to use them. In my Greece game, I took Honor to help protect my trade routes. If you've tech up to Classical already...

Glad to see people having fun with this! You can see what I mean when I say my Greece game is the "worst" game. Most games played with this strategy won't ever be quite as far behind, or for that long. Scholars on first vote especially will make your much more competitive in science...

for more or less peaceful culture victories, just take the deity tier list, keep all the top-tier civs on the top, make then take Tourism production civs Brazil/France/Poly in the order they're on that list, then take the GP production civs in the order they're in Austria/Sweden, then take Faith...

Hmm... I've never made a LP before. Not sure I'd be good at it, because my turns usually take a bit of time. Might give it a shot when work frees up a bit. What would work better? An edited video showing key turning points in the game, or a full LP type? Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

And you get them all earlier if you don't build ironworks. Ironworks doesn't pay for itself until almost railroads. So if you think railroads are late, then you really shouldn't be concerned with ironworks. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

... Yes, all of this except for the extended trade distance (which can be really good, or completely worthless depending on start), was factored in. You are basically making the time shift value argument. It doesn't quite kick in that early though, since you need cities first, and you get very...

Did the math on this a while back. For non-pure island maps (meaning, you can build roads to connect cities pre-harbor availability), all the gold savings of Carthage added together (no upkeep, instant-city connection, gold-buy harbors) is not even close to Portugal's gold. They have different...

Well said. This is exactly how I feel about Liberty, and I play fairly differently from how you play. It's just a very flexible tree, and on Deity, for ease of victory, flexibility >>>> being slightly better at the plan you start with that was going to win the game for you anyway if things go...

people do Deity level liberty games all the time. it's probably better than tradition for warmongers. even peaceful play, if you scout enough room (or 1-2 nice chokepoint city locations) and don't pop a culture ruin early, you can go for Liberty. or, semi-peaceful, where you CB rush a...