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It varies a lot from era to era. Later on you can do a real hard beeline on the bottom techs. To the point where the oldest and newest techs don't fit on the same screen.

I mean is it an issue if they are that far away? The Ai might snowball and get loads of wonders but they certainly can't win. As long as you don't die you can catch up with spys from almost any amount of techs.

Zealotry has a lot going for it. It comes out at point where you probably have a lot of faith generation but not much to do with it, the race is over. It gives you a big faith sink and you can paly very aggressively when your units have less value. Just throw them into the AI and make more hen...

I think the issue is any challenge at this level probably won't be fun, for you at least. I think this was roughly as hard as always war but that is also a huge grind

I did like those so maybe we could do more. The main issue is pitching at a level enough people will want to try. This one is very very hard. It is probably about as hard as always war and similarly takes forever.

Ok so yes it is possible however I'm not sure it is always possible. A lot of things can go wrong and you don't have a great deal of control over lots of it. the AI seem better at conquering on epic and snowballs even harder. The bonuses from conquering scale up so they had absurd amounts of...

Yeah I think the AI already follows this. When they ask you it is a pretty good indication they aren't planning on attacking you. I don't think I've ever seen them declare war within ten turns of asking you.

Yeah I guess the difference is I'm playing Netherlands so I can build it right away without having to wait for culture. After playing a bit more I don't think you need it but it or great library do help a lot. Feel like you need at least one force limit wonder but there are three of them. In...

So after playing a bit, the main issue is bonus yields are increased from speed and the AI has an awful lot of them. so you need a lot of your own, Like Milae said Sankore is very important. I think you do really want Terra Cotta too, otherwise your army is just tiny. It doesn't seem too hard...

I'd be amazed if it made it truly impossible, I've played lots of deity games with probably harsher restrictions. I have no clue what effect epic speed has so I'm going to give it a try and see. Egypt seems reasonable for early war with a good UU, similar with Assyria, as you can really abuse...

I did in on normal speed, no clue if it is easier or harder on epic. Culture seems impossible, you just can't generate enough with one city and you need to be faster than them. Diplomatic was a long way off for me but might be possible if you really focus. AI conquering CS is a big issue...

You can certainly restart if you feel that it will be a less enjoyable game. An isolated start is certainly very different. Said said I think it is literally impossible to generate a start that is impossible to win with. Authority bullying the CS multiple time then seeing what else is around...

I am impressed this is something that is more of a slog than always war :)

When I'm level in tech with the AI. I do still play it out after that sometimes, but I've never lost once I get to that point.

I think all peaceful civs is probably simplest, it won't 100% prevent it but it mostly will. Good city spacing might leads to no wars ever.