I've been playing 2.2 for some days now. I love some unique things in this mod: religious discovery system and the unique units (the religious linked units and the national units). However, here are some of the "remarks" I want to make:
1. AI seems to be struggling with the city culture thing. They put huge distances between their capital and their new cities (they try to avoid late game overlap I suppose ….), but that makes them build very few cities (some just have the capital), when they can easily put 3 or 4 cities in their own land. They therefore have a hard time thriving.
2. AI tends to build cities (first one after the capital) miles away from their capital, two or three civilizations away !!!! That is maybe linked to the remark 1 though.
3. AI seem to be crazy about building over strategic resources: iron than copper and horses. Sometime it is understandable but sometimes it is just so dumb: they build a crappy city when they could by moving one tile build a magnificent city and still keep the bloody iron in the first ring!!!!
4. AI barely build any military and that is the first time I see this, very often in other mods, I complain because AI tend to build hordes of units. In this mod, I could wipe every one if I really wanted to with just a dozen swords. Oh and I play Emperor or Immortal.
5. The game is unbalanced between the stuff to build and the production available: you added many wonders, buildings etc, and create many expensive units but production and growth did not follow. There are so many wonders that many ancient era wonders are still not built in the middle ages, and again I play Emperor or Immortal. I usually play standard size, so I tried to play large to put more civs in and increase the number of potential wonder builders, but the result is still not that good. In the last game I am trying a large map (18civs), full of resources and hills (for production and growth) and without the city culture condition to see if the result is better. I honestly think that you need to balance things out because it is frustrating (and it does not make sense) when you can still build the Mausoleum while you’re searching Guilds!!!!