diplomatic favor

The recent patch included a penalty for owning a capital as a negative permanent modifier of -5DF per turn. Probably to prevent Domination to be used as a DV path. However, the penalty is not well balanced for the following reasons: If a player that is not a warmonger but also not a pacifist...

I play the PC Gathering Storm post patch version through Steam. At a world congress vote, I had no diplomatic favor points to spend so I could not select a choice to vote on. When I exit out it just shows "please wait" in the circle in the lower right hand corner (where it says "next turn" and...

Seriously, I get they wanted to force the players into the late game a little bit more, but this is just stupid. How am I supossed to beat this? I would have to farm like 1 million favor (and trust that there is at least one emergency between votes too). The only way I see to win this is...

Playing an MP game (in Hot Seat) with a friend. I was Ottomans, and she was Maori. She settled a city near me in order to claim a natural wonder that was near my territory. I asked her to promise not to settle new cities near me. Asking for this promise cost me 30 favor (as normal) (which...

So in the preview streams, both from FXS hq and now from the media builds, we've seen that Diplomatic Favor is tradeable. . . but even if the two civs are negotiating peace. That means Mr. World Slayer can extort the full purse of Favor of a, let's say "optimized Diplomacy game", from another...