Deity level gameplay

[peddroelm]

you can purchase great sceintists with faith thinking it may be a good long term strat but noticed the cost of them goes up fast.

had all possible scientist specialist slots filled at all times (constantly generating great GS points) - the main purpose was of course maximum beaker output ... Purchasing great persons with faith kind of interferes with the natural generation of GS (point costs increase ..) ... The religion that invaded my cities allowed me to spend my faith on cathedrals ... And a GS very late game ....


EDIT - no matter the victory condition type (scientific, diplomatic or domination ) - you must be able to keep up in beaker per turn output ...

 

[CatDawg]

Scrajm - thanks for filling in the gaps for me.

Aspon - interesting strat. I read your "new diety beater" post. I noticed that you were playing on the new abora map (mostly forest). That map type obviously favours hiawatha and would allow 5 early cities. However, I'm not sure whether it would be as effective as Scrajm's strat on a random map type or at least a map with decent landmass and random terrain. Hiawatha will spawn in forest, but you would have to be pretty lucky to have enough forest close by to locate a further 4 cities with decent surrounding forest.