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You said he was at war, were there a bunch of enemy units in his territory? Maybe he never had a chance to safely send it to his capitol. Maybe the city he built it in was surrounded by enemy units.

This is actually usually the correct move for for the AI to play Venice optimally. After the first couple of puppets Venice should use the MOVs to get influence and gold to buy more influence. With MOVs and tons of trade route gold Venice can coast its way to a diplo victory. Of course the...

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No your culture is not factored in at all. It just doesn't bother saying it is falling if your tourism level is Unknown because it can't go below that.

Well in the game where I won a culture victory I was generating over between 500-700 tourism after bonuses to every civ at the end. Throw in a couple great musicians and its actually pretty easy to catch up.

If you put Kasbahs on all of your flood planes and hills you will probably end up with about the same food and production, but something like +10 base gpt. I would say that is much better than many unique buildings. It also allows you to get a bit more production in a desert start which is...

This would make sense if it only applied when the trade would put them into negative gpt. However, it still happens even if the AI is making hundreds of gpt.

I suspect this is because the devs didn't do too well in economics class back in school.

Liberty can be powerful under the right circumstances. Most of the time tradition will be better though. However, if you can quickly grab 3 city states and have them all sending food cargo ships to Venice it can be very impressive. That will give you far more growth than Tradition can...

I would say that you should probably stick to Emperor and work on your skills. Don't back down to King. You might need to change your build/tech order a bit since the AI prioritizes wonders a little differently than it did in G&K, but you should be able to get all of the important ones on...

They have to be caravans, trade routes from cargo ships don't count.

The optimal number of cities for a CV is simply however many it takes to make sure you have slots for all of your great works with theme bonuses. Setting up any cities past this is basically wasting resources as they will not contribute in any meaningful way to your CV. The actual number will...

I would say it depends on the suggestions. If people are saying something is too difficult and needs to be made easier after only 8 days then yes, the devs should give people more time to develop new strategies. However, it doesn't take more than a game or two to tell when something is not...

Personally, I have not had any difficulty at all building early wonders in BNW. I've played 4 immortal games so far and am currently playing a deity game. For the immortal games I built the Great Library in 3 of them, Parthenon in 2, Colossus in 2, Petra in 2, Oracle in 2, and Hanging Gardens...

Yeah world ideology is pretty much required for it to hurt the AI on Immortal. That's why I make it priority. I have proposed it and gotten it passed in every game I have played so far. I pick the same ideology as the culture spammers, who tend to be less aggressive. This usually forces the...