Sure, or you can choose never to open your borders.
You should be building archaeologists as they can't be bought with gold. Actually if you are 165 and you haven't build aqueduct by then, something is wrong with your early game. You should really prioritize those once you have secured enough excess happiness. I usually delay temples as there are usually better things to build. Markets are always my default if I have the time. Bonus buildings such as stables are useful if they're built early and have multiple pastures. Stoneworks are always worth building for their happiness even if you only have 1 quarry.
Valid points, but I disagree for a few reasonsDon't agree. On the higher difficulties, Order is the easiest to use for a couple of reasons.
First of all, Order double dips on Tourism tenets - 34% to other order civs, and 34% to civs with less happiness. I usually have more happiness than 5 or 6 out of the other 7 civs immediately upon taking it. Second of all, Order is the default ideology for civs, if they can't make better use of another ideology, they'll go to order. This means that the world will clump as Order, and you'll get that tourism boost as well.
I used to do Freedom CV's, but the fact is that Freedom suffers from having viable policies, and you get A LOT of policies when you're doing a CV. You can get many more useful policies in Order, and you're not stuck looking at the tree going "uhh, I don't really need any of this stuff, where should I waste policies next...?"
Freedom specialists are great and all, and obviously SoL is awesome, but I have far better empires with Order.
Disclaimer must be made that I am playing very wide these days.
As other said, you want GM late, after internet tech or after your tourism output is maxed. A way to do that is to build up a lot of faith (~5000), then buy them. I don't work the musicians guild until late.I still don't understand how this works. Moreso the tourism aspect of it and how you influence other cultures. It seems a great musician doesn't really generate that much influence when used in another civs territory, so is it better to make a great work of music?
This is my first go at winning cultural, I have never played with Morocco before and think they are a good fit for this type of win. I am on emperor and usually get conquest victory or science.
I also don't really understand diplo victory, but that's another thread.
Any help or advice on what to do would be appreciated. I know I must build the culture buildings and but am not sure which wonders are best or techs I should rush as this level is tough for me and I can't get them all.
Thanks!
Better to just pay them 1 GPT to open up their borders early on.Am I right-that you can wait until late game to open borders?
Better to just pay them 1 GPT to open up their borders early on.
You make excellent points. I have more trouble with Order because the tourism boost from happiness I never find applicable. But at lower difficulties, it would work quite well! Nothing wrong with Order for CV, for all the reasons you list. I still think Freedom CV is more straightforward.