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Himeji Castle & Oligarchy make me invincible to the AI and it feels unfair :(. Personally I'd like them both gone, walls, castles, etc are enough.

The biggest thing letting the game down for me is the AI* which is what I thought you were getting at with that subject line but then you end saying its the basic design and a board game designer could have fixed it... So I guess I'm disagreeing, its not a design problem for me but an...

The only one I turn off is diplomacy just because I dont agree with the 'he who buys the most wins'. Even then I only rarely do it.

I disagree. Just because there is no negative to a SP doesnt make it an easy decision.

same game as my earlier post. The aztecs that were friendly to me for the entire game just turned on me. I took a city state before but had checked their demeanour for a few turns aftwerwards and nothing chnaged (no red modifiers) BUT they did change their language 'bloodthirsty, etc'. I may...

I managed to get 'silver mountain' or whatever its called in my capital with spain. Very nice. Maybe a bit overpowered but Im stuck between 4 civs so I think its fair.

Emperor level. It's likely they saw a civ suddenly double its city count and with a relatively weak army thought they could have a shot. Pity is they didn't actually team up to take me down (would be hard to program I imagine). They did go from Friendly to DoW. France didn't even bother to...

Some social policies help too. Tradition (top left of the policies) has a -33% in your capital city which is nice and easy to get at the start. Also look at the piety tree. Curciuses (spelling?) are good to build too if your city has the option.

Interesting extra facts from Emperor game I am currently running. Spanish capital with a natural wonder (the 10 gold mountain). I have grown to 4 cities on a standard map but those 4 cities cover a LOT of area unlike some of the AI which seem happy to ICS (others are settling like normal sane...

If you play on emperor level or lower I'd say yes. If you have a ton of other stuff to play though Id say wait until you have nothing to play first :)

I did manage to get a standard fractal map starting city with the following resources once though: -2 river wheat -3 silver -1 aluminium -1 iron then gems & coal just outside the 3 ring radius. I wish i could repeat that again!

As at last nights game my catapults still needed iron.

resources are set at the time of the map beign generated. You can test this by restarting a map and noticing the Iron/horses still pop up in the same place every time. You may find that your settling cities in places with lots of resources already, its unliekly that coal will pop up next to a...

thanks! i'll have to grab it as I looooove a nice blob of a civilisation and AI cities plonked down in 'my area' is almost guaranteed war. Though landed elite drops the cost by 2/3 (66%) so ankor wat would only drop it by another 20% befor eit hits the cap of ~85% .... right?

Just putting it out there.... he might have quit for more money somewhere else. Hes a lead designer now, quite a resource, even if he did work on a "terrible aboniation wurzt game evar!" million+ selling game.