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Is the AI incapable? Are turn times excruciatingly long?

Barbarossa gives an extra military slot for the government, and a combat bonus against city states. Germany gets an extra district than what would normally be allowed with the current level of population. Germany gets a unique industrial district, the Hansa. It gives bonus production if...

Catherine de Medici has the following agenda: What is diplomatic access though?

Wikipedia says that he is responsible for Zen Buddhism becoming firmly established in Japan. Which means religion related bonuses for sure!

You're going to need a lot of production. This is why full Knowledge is bad for OCC in my opinion.

Weather Controllers.

Actually winning with just one city, even on Apollo, is quite possible and not difficult either. In order to get a challenge, one would have to place restrictions such as these: - 1 city max. - African Union. - Bad starting location (near wildlands, isolated, tundra?) - No contact victory. -...

I've also lost interest pretty quickly. It's obvious this game needed a few months of beta testing and tweaking.

In single player you can buy firaxite from other factions, then it's easy. Disband your other firaxite using units and you only need enough for two angels.

Have lots of cash. Buy and send an Angel in every turn.

I've already won an OOC with Franco-Iberia. Apollo difficulty, Contact victory around turn 275 with standard settings on a protean map. It might be possible much earlier. I'm trying other victories now, and Contact seems easier than the others. What I've learned is that you need a lot of food...

I'm pretty sure you can have multiple terraforming satellites per city.

They do matter. With Elodie, Metaresearch Methods could be a little less useful because the leaf techs are good choices when taking a free tech. You want to maximize the beaker gain from each free tech, and leaf nodes are the most expenseive techs. Cohesive Values is a little bit more useful. If...

True but you need affinity level 13 before you can win, so you should take the route that gives the bigger early game advantage. In the long run you'll want both anyways. The highlights of left route is the autoplant and nanopasture. The highlights of the right route are several health and food...

Good post. Robotics is really cheap at 254 beakers for its position. Genetic Design is an alternative. It leads to Social Dynamics which has some very nice stuff too: Civil Creche, Soma Distillery (+4 health), and Terra Vault (+15% culture). One leaf tech unlocks the wonder that gives +2 free...