Some more things I have noticed. 1.73 patch H.
When selling a building, why not just list the real amount (the 20% amount) of gold that you'll get back for it in the drop down instead of making us do calculate it or wonder why the hell we didn't get the amount listed because we (ok... I ) didn't bother to read the message at the top saying I'd only get 20% back.
I love playing the Hittites. Their UB is the best, in fact it's overpowered. I refuse to even upgrade them to steel mills (except maybe 1 or 2) because its a net loss for me. Logically, why would access to Iron give a 10% food bonus? That should be dropped, keep the regular production bonus though as it's unique feature.
Am playing Diety, ruthlesss AI, raging barbarians, start as minors. I am sure it has been said many times, game is still too easy. AI can't build proper economic assisting building ans just mass spams military units until it chokes on them. AI doesn't value writing enough when Start as minors is enabled. In my game, I am about to enter the medieval era (in 1st century AD) and this only after delaying it on purpose by researching every ancient and classical era tech before going after one that would bump me to the medieval era. I am x4 score compare to my best rival, (whom I just recently vassalized, after steamrolling over his hordes of archers and spearmen with heavy swords) I had to wait for the idiot to finally research writing or I would have done in centuries earlier. I've built every wonder of the ancient and classical age except Sun Tzu's, the Collossus, and Chichen Itza.
Also another odd circumstance, I am on continent A shard w/ 2 AI civs. I have discovered and explored continent B which began w/ 4 AI civs, but spawned 3 more from Barbarians. The only reason I can reach continent B is because I settled a city that had its culture expand out enough to reach the coasts of some islands off Continent B's mainland. So I am the only one that can reach continent B. The AI's on continent B and continent A have no contact with each other. I am the only civ with Alphabet (or was at the time I noticed this) Several of the AI civs on Continent B have developed writing so I can talk to them and have many times, I've never given away contacts. As soon as one of the AI civs on continent AI, develop writing (the one I have been waiting on so I can make them capitulate) the AIs on continent B start demanding that I make peace with this AI. How do they even know of this AI's existence? They can't send explorers over (ocean boundary through my territory), and I've never told them about them.
A last thing I have noticed, is when I jump down to a very high tax rate for incomes of 1000+ the amount that I get back on the next term is FAR less that what was predicted. For example I was poised to have +1459 gold to be added to 255 gold in my treasury after dropping down to 0% science. (I wanted to horde some gold to spend on finishing buildings) Yet on the next turn I got 1200 something instead. Where did 400+ of my gold income disappear to? It wasn't road costs that is for sure, not 400 gold worth... nobody stole from my treasury, no one has spies except me, and I should have gotten a message. Inflation? something else? When I pump my science slider back up to get smaller per turn gold gains It does not appear to go missing anymore.