Recent content by Scottay

Cities can be (either as an option or a requirement) founded as puppets and annexed later. Founded cities could spawn as allied city states. Possibly as part of a civ's kit like Greece or Carthage. City states can be peacefully puppeted or annexed via influence or quests. Recapturing previously...

It depends on the civ and policies. If I'm playing tradition then yeah mostly food routes to the capital so I can send the population through the roof and get all the GP. Otherwise its one or two food routes to the capital, occasionally a food route to a production focused city that isnt growing...

I agree that voting pattern for Poland is very strange and 'gamey'. I enjoy the game more when I can interpret AI actions in a realistic way and that one is hard to reconcile. However both you and the OP could have used diplomats to secure nay votes. In the case of vassals you can just tell...

The second camp also has a tendency to consider not being a total a-hole as sufficient diplomacy to maintain good relations. For many of my peaceful games I certainly defaulted to that thinking. What the current system does well IMO is force the peaceful player to spend effort and resources to...

I also think the AI logic is effectively that you are getting to powerful and they are trying to even things out. It could be that your citizens are making so much gold that its raising the world average and making their citizens unhappy due to poverty (though I'm unsure if the AI takes that...