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Deity
My point isn't that the strategy is not optimal. We all agree on that.
My point is that any policy strategy can give you a diplomatic victory and that things like City states being bought or captured, which can make your life difficult, are not influenced by it !
See the honor, commerce, autocracy strategy for exemple. Not optimal/fastest but at least it is a sound idea and leads to a victory that is not possible if you completely mess your game.
Really I don't have a problem with Piety itself. I have a problem with this whole "play from behind because anyway you can always win diplomacy" idea. Hell it is even written in Mitosu's report: "Failed at everything. [...] And eventually I won, though not on the first vote."
Crafting a guide on Piety and then find the best way to use it to win say domination would not make me frown as much.
That said I'll let this subject alone since I'm just stating my opinion on it and think I cannot be clearer.
My point is that any policy strategy can give you a diplomatic victory and that things like City states being bought or captured, which can make your life difficult, are not influenced by it !
See the honor, commerce, autocracy strategy for exemple. Not optimal/fastest but at least it is a sound idea and leads to a victory that is not possible if you completely mess your game.
Really I don't have a problem with Piety itself. I have a problem with this whole "play from behind because anyway you can always win diplomacy" idea. Hell it is even written in Mitosu's report: "Failed at everything. [...] And eventually I won, though not on the first vote."
Crafting a guide on Piety and then find the best way to use it to win say domination would not make me frown as much.
That said I'll let this subject alone since I'm just stating my opinion on it and think I cannot be clearer.