Meh. The Arabs are easy to beat as Byzantium without being cheater-y anyway. Just spam Spearmen. They're useless on the offense when they flip to the Arabs but shred the Arabs' Camel Archers. You should also take and hold Tisfun/Ctesiphon before the Arabs spawn so they don't have a base outside of Arabia. (You could raze it, too, but it's a great city.) This is harder on Normal than on Epic or Marathon but still definitely doable.
The Turks are much harder to deal with.
New commit:
- standardized conditions for returning a civilization
- fixed a bug that prevented civs from randomly respawning if they have a scripted respawn
- the cores of civs that cannot return anymore do not count as foreign core anymore
That is an exploit I actually do want to fix. Do you have a save of that situation?just started as USA 600 AD:
It is still possible to buy slaves for 25 and sell for 70 to the same nation (Portugal).
But I think (since you can simply avoid exploiting that) the bigger problem is that the AI doesn't seem to know what to do with all the slaves. I hardly see any slave plantations on AI lands.
New commit:
- the culture of dead civilizations remains present
Culture of dead civs always has influenced stability already so this is consistent now, and easier to understand because its now openly displayed.
But it isn't present in later scenarios, right?- the culture of dead civilizations remains present