Recent content by Chaosquo

Noble Zarkon was correct, I need to have another city in range. I also want to make sure Im not missing any EP point reductions in this screenshot? There is a open border one, but Im skipping that one.

Thanks for the link. I gave away my starting city, but the Spread Culture mission is not available. It is only available in a small city where I have no culture. I even tried giving back the conquered capital to the original owner, but I still cant spread culture

Can anyone link me to a good writeup about espionage victory strategies? How far do you even tech? Just CoL, go full CE and turn the slider to 100%? Cripple 1 AI so you can easily reconquer the gifted cities?

Nice change, just as I was getting back into Civ :lol: One question though: From what I can see, the only way to get good scores with non Ancient starts is to find a category with no (good) Ancient submissions? Since your finish date is compared to Ancient finishes?

Not sure if you need to be in last place, but the AI needs to be in first place. If youre both in the lower half, there is another "Developing nations should catch up together". I can see the modifiers in 004b.

The more I play this gauntlet, the more intricacies I discover :crazyeye: I thought you needed +9 (friendly) relations to get someone to vote for you in the UN, apparently thats not the case for AP? Also different leader have different thresholds on when they consider you a small civ? Zara gives...

Some observations from my games: Getting meditation seems a bit pointless, and this game can be won with your capital only. You need to pre chop forests heavily to get the AP before 1000 BC.

From my understanding, AI will always switch to the religion with the most believers in their whole empire.

I've just been building 2 workers and getting BW early to prechop everything and even building roads, got a 1240 game with a 1 gold start. Ive never had the issue of switching to AP religion, do you spread the AP religion to a small or big city?

Ragnar sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if worker stealing is even worth it, since you have nothing else to build in your city anyway. I guess it allows you to grow your city earlier. I've had decent success with beelining poly, hoping for Hatty to get meditation and spreading hinduism to Zara.

Also I misunderstood the mechanics a bit, if you switch to the AP religion on the vote turn, you still need to stay under 75 % votes, I guess this is to prevent winning by yourself.

Thanks, guess she wipped the city that has christianity?

Im so confused, built AP in christianity, in hinduism right now to get extra buddy points with zara, i select the religious victory resolution, and next turn the election gets cancelled, no matter if i switch to christianity or stay in hinduism. Nothing else happens, no AI changes religions...

Is going for the oracle to get Theology not the preferred strategy or is bulbing faster?

grats to swordnboard, i had an amazing gold/gem double cow start, got free wheel, but I went for HA and overproduced units at the end, could have easily shaved off 10 to 20 turns off my date with better play.