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If I recall the Swedes are eligible for a trading company colony. Has anyone seen the AI achieve this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_of_Egypt

Here's something from I think last week version. Upon Maya contact with Europe, immediately fail UHV#3.

Per new change "new Khmer UP: The Power of Hydraulic Engineering: additional food in capital based on building production" is this a ratio of the capitals hammers currently going to building production? If so is this affected by building speed modifiers (citizenship & clergy)?

If Paris has the Louvre, sisctene chapel, and three cathedrals you don't need syncretism, culture slider, or national gallery. The trick is production. Vassalage farms for production and specialists (mostly priests).

I suspect the theocracy balance is affecting the Arabs for the 600AD start. Vassalage main benefit for a wide empire like the Arabs is the decreased unit maintenance cost, but hard to justify with no farms first built.

Agree with above observations regarding Persia and neighbours. For France my suggested opening is switch to redistribution and citizenship - all cites make a worker while paris makes 3-4. chop forest accelerate citizenship buildings and restrict initial improvements to resources only. then make...

Japanese UHV allows for vassals - both explicitly stated and implemented.

German UHV requires control over all of Scandinavia. Iceland and Greenland are classified as Scandinavia. Not sure if this is intended.

Any suggestions for England? I am having trouble with the UHV1 ship requirements.

For free trade - I also find trade routes to be the main benefit. I suggest having the effect only for foreign trade routes. More in line with the David Ricardo explanation of free trade. Will be same result but benefits taper off when leading civs run out of profitable trading partners or...

I Have seen similar on regent. But I normally vassalage farm spam get those techs 200 years before persia. I find the manorialism farm to vassalage path is optimal outside of floodplains. I find slavery and caste system to be underwhelming compared to superfarms.

In recent games I observe the AI typically going for Fanaticism. Likely due to all the late game wars. Have others seen this?

I find the slavery civic to be underwhelming in the recent releases. In the old small map there was bonus commerce for mines - this made sense for the classical civilizations where mines are the most common improvement. What about allowing slavery to capture barbarian slaves to build local...

On a recent play - Polynesia no conquerors confirmed. Other civs contacted them triggered conquerors.