One of my least favorite things about Civ V is the extent to which ideology choice affects both happiness and diplomacy. I play on Deity (although Deity is challenging for me), and the only way I've found to mitigate the massive unhappiness and diplomatic penalty to wait to be forced to choose one (e.g. grabbing Radio/factories) until the culture leaders have chosen, and then picking the one they already have picked. This loses me any free policies I'd get from getting one earlier, but saves me the huge penalties and worldwide DOW when I go Freedom and the other seven civs go Order.
I've seen people referencing grabbing Radio early, and picking up one of the first ideologies. I was just playing as Babylon and I did that, grabbing Freedom, and I ended up with 18 unhappiness from the desire for a new ideology after 3 other civs had picked different ideologies (2 autocracy, 1 order). I was doing okay otherwise, should I have just gone full production into happiness buildings until I made that -18 up? (I was -15 total at that point after the -18 hit)
Is there a way to mitigate this somehow? I suppose going for great works like there's no tomorrow would put me in the position to be influencing their ideologies, but that's not always the plan in the games I'm playing.
Also, if anyone can recommend a good video Let's Play of someone doing a culture victory on Deity on standard speed, preferably somewhat recently (at least since the Tradition policy tree was reworked), I would appreciate it greatly.
I've seen people referencing grabbing Radio early, and picking up one of the first ideologies. I was just playing as Babylon and I did that, grabbing Freedom, and I ended up with 18 unhappiness from the desire for a new ideology after 3 other civs had picked different ideologies (2 autocracy, 1 order). I was doing okay otherwise, should I have just gone full production into happiness buildings until I made that -18 up? (I was -15 total at that point after the -18 hit)
Is there a way to mitigate this somehow? I suppose going for great works like there's no tomorrow would put me in the position to be influencing their ideologies, but that's not always the plan in the games I'm playing.
Also, if anyone can recommend a good video Let's Play of someone doing a culture victory on Deity on standard speed, preferably somewhat recently (at least since the Tradition policy tree was reworked), I would appreciate it greatly.