Recent content by YukiN

I think having a civ spike a tech is not new, and having the spike be bigger or smaller gives variety to game play as long as they are generally balanced by other factors. On a seperate note though, I would like to mention again that the Japan is heavily gimped on slower speeds. Promoting units...

Did you apply the hotfix and load up an old save? If so it'll supposedly go away over maybe 20 turns.

It's not just about people breaking agreements. Yields now is always better than yields later.

On one hand, it's the game speed. On the other, it's by design really snowbally, giving much of its yields early on and not much after a while, so we are seeing it at its strongest phase right now.

Not high priority and not easy to implement, but I feel that the AI should have a time discount when evaluating yields where possible. For instance, 30 gold lump sum and 1 gpt are not worth the same. Maybe discount it to 25 gold = 1gpt. Same for any other yields. Even rough values would likely...

I like peaceful. Means you can build buildings and wonders. :P

I agree with Minh Le that Beauty is really good. Renewal is also very tempting given the amount of unimproved forest you'll probably work to the South.

I will settle 1 tile islands if there are good tiles and I expect to have naval dominance in the region. Being up to date on defensive buildings and having a garrison also gos a long way naturally. Vulnerability isn't an issue if no one can exploit it. For religion, any spreader belief, such as...

I would have gone Progress for this start since there are no immediate neighbors to fight and there is a lot of land to grab. For Pantheon, I would go for Goddess of the Sea. It goes well with Authority. You have the extra hammers for fishing boats, a faith monopoly to offset your slower faith...

Were you building needs-reduction buildings? Military buildings also reduce distress.

I think Iconography is a waste since you went Statecraft and you are China. You aren't going to be behind on policies and Statecraft gives policy reduction on wonders once you complete it anyway. Still, that looks like an excellent game. Council of Elders really is a more powerful snowballing...

It's both. As it stands, it's an RNG factor that seriously influences your early game without meaningful ways to interact with it. Science and culture just feels worse because the barbarians can somehow steal more of those yields and those yields are more valuable. The 5 turn limit IIRC is a...

Also, is there a reason why Expertise yields are 10 per 2 eras instead of 5 per era? Seems like an odd way to nerf(?) Progress.

I got 3 GAds from one CS quest (circumnavigation). 3 seems a bit much, even with the statecraft rewards boost.

I got 3 GAds from a single city state quest. I should probably raise that on the broken things thread.