ggmoyang
Emperor
One of City state suzerain bonus is '+1 yield for respective buildings per number of CS you suzerained'
And I am controlling 9 CS in the example:
As you can see, the yield is so high. 35 gold from 2 gold buildings without specialists. It makes Exploration age's science path trivial.
To get maximum benefit from CS bonus, I converted all of my 10 settlements to cities. And thanks to the Tecumseh's ability, every city can build buildings in reasonable time.
I wasn't expecting this, so things weren't optimized, but I think general strategy should be like this:
Pick Tecumseh + Greece, Get Ekklesia civic ASAP for Xenia tradition
Try to become a suzerain of science CS early, and pick the free tech bonus. We need techs to unlock various buildings, especially ones with influence yield (Monument and Villa).
When you become a suzerain of CS, you get a diplomatic attribute point. If you got another point from memento, you can get the befriend CS cost discount bonus. And befriend all those CS!
Convert towns to cities and spam buildings. Gold and influence buildings should be priority. you want to keep those influence buildings till the modern age, so plan accordingly.
Economic golden age is absolute necessity, you don't want to spend all those golds again.
Stockpile 3000 gold and 500 influence before the age transition (Excess is wasted)
Pick Shawnee in exploration age, they have befriend CS cost discount tradition. You probably won't benefit from that in the age though, but it'll be useful in the modern age.
It's hard at the start of the age, as all those CS bonuses is gone and obsolete buildings don't get bonus from newly gained CS. But you can quickly fix it if you had built enough influence income in antiquity.
Siam would be interesting choice in the Modern age. They have an ability to instantly upgrade IP to a CS and become suzerain of them. But this costs 540 influence and the cost cannot be discounted.
Memento choices: Probably 1 scouting bonus and 1 diplomatic bonus.
For scouting bonus, Imago Mundi(+3 sight with scout ability, legacy level 7) or Merchant's Saddle(+1 movement and sight for scouts, merchants and settlers, Ibn Battuta level 5) would be good.
For diplomatic bonus, Treaty of Kadesh(+1 diplomatic attribute point, legacy level 3) or Shisa Necklace(+100 influence when you become a suzerain of CS, legacy level 29) looks great.
That +100 influence does not scale with game speed so it would be insane in online speed game.
And of course, you can change mementos on age transition. +1 diplomatic attribute point is only need at first, so change it to something fits the situation.
In modern age, Golden Seal Stone (+1 influence per age on science buildings, Himiko, Queen of Wa level 2) could be nice, especially so with science golden age bonus.
And I am controlling 9 CS in the example:
As you can see, the yield is so high. 35 gold from 2 gold buildings without specialists. It makes Exploration age's science path trivial.
To get maximum benefit from CS bonus, I converted all of my 10 settlements to cities. And thanks to the Tecumseh's ability, every city can build buildings in reasonable time.
I wasn't expecting this, so things weren't optimized, but I think general strategy should be like this:
Pick Tecumseh + Greece, Get Ekklesia civic ASAP for Xenia tradition
Try to become a suzerain of science CS early, and pick the free tech bonus. We need techs to unlock various buildings, especially ones with influence yield (Monument and Villa).
When you become a suzerain of CS, you get a diplomatic attribute point. If you got another point from memento, you can get the befriend CS cost discount bonus. And befriend all those CS!
Convert towns to cities and spam buildings. Gold and influence buildings should be priority. you want to keep those influence buildings till the modern age, so plan accordingly.
Economic golden age is absolute necessity, you don't want to spend all those golds again.
Stockpile 3000 gold and 500 influence before the age transition (Excess is wasted)
Pick Shawnee in exploration age, they have befriend CS cost discount tradition. You probably won't benefit from that in the age though, but it'll be useful in the modern age.
It's hard at the start of the age, as all those CS bonuses is gone and obsolete buildings don't get bonus from newly gained CS. But you can quickly fix it if you had built enough influence income in antiquity.
Siam would be interesting choice in the Modern age. They have an ability to instantly upgrade IP to a CS and become suzerain of them. But this costs 540 influence and the cost cannot be discounted.
Memento choices: Probably 1 scouting bonus and 1 diplomatic bonus.
For scouting bonus, Imago Mundi(+3 sight with scout ability, legacy level 7) or Merchant's Saddle(+1 movement and sight for scouts, merchants and settlers, Ibn Battuta level 5) would be good.
For diplomatic bonus, Treaty of Kadesh(+1 diplomatic attribute point, legacy level 3) or Shisa Necklace(+100 influence when you become a suzerain of CS, legacy level 29) looks great.
That +100 influence does not scale with game speed so it would be insane in online speed game.
And of course, you can change mementos on age transition. +1 diplomatic attribute point is only need at first, so change it to something fits the situation.
In modern age, Golden Seal Stone (+1 influence per age on science buildings, Himiko, Queen of Wa level 2) could be nice, especially so with science golden age bonus.
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