Best BNW Addition

[Teholb]

I like it all, but mostly the trade routes and World Congress. So much potential gameplay with those two additions alone! Firaxis really pulled off a good save from Vanilla, which, I've got to say, was pretty bland. There just wasn't much to do, heh.

 

[Aaron90495]

I like it all, but mostly the trade routes and World Congress. So much potential gameplay with those two additions alone! Firaxis really pulled off a good save from Vanilla, which, I've got to say, was pretty bland. There just wasn't much to do, heh.

Hence, "Vanilla."

 

[PhilBowles]

Trade Routes. And Borobudur.

EDIT: And something not listed - iron at Bronze Working.

I'm not surprised there are few votes for new wonders... most of the new wonders were added to make a cultural victory overhaul.

That, and they're lumped together as one item and no one can bring themselves to vote for Prora.

Compared to the other additions, I thought ideologies were fairly minor. The SP trees are also fairly minor changes, given that most of the changes were just moving around existing policies and dividing them up better according to purpose.

The dilpo hits in G&K were irrelevant. Ideology now defines the late game (arguably more than it should), more than the World Congress, and is the only way that tourism is game-relevant rather than just a countdown to victory. You might as well ask what the best feature of G&K was, but exclude religion on the basis that it already existed as a policy tree in vanilla and all G&K added was a few extra policies (beliefs) and a "minor tweak" in the form of a resource whose only function was to generate more religion.

 

[Buccaneer]

Another underrated change to the Policies were their better definitions, balance and openness. No more choosing just between Tradition and Liberty (which they made more relevant), then going a little into Patronage before Rationalism. Now we have a lot more choices at the same time and a lot of them look appealing. This does not include the addition of an Ideology, which in itself a hard choice, and deciding between Tenets and Policies (and their finishers).