Favorite Traits ?

[GT_OKEZ]

It took me a while to figure out which triat combo I like the best . I tried ALL of them and I guess it really depends on what kind of game your playing .

Overall I think FIN/ORG is the best combo and really synergetic . Your gurenteed to have a lot of commerce and can pretty much pic what civics you want ( even police state) with out much of a cost penalty .

Downside is that both traits only REALLY get strong as the game progresses . STill , if your fortunate enough to be by some coastal tiles or oasis then FIN is all the more sweeter . ORG really doesn't start to show its advantages until later but constructing quick lighthouses and courthouses are nice in teh beggining .

Any other nice combos people like to use the most?

 

[GT_OKEZ]

For a great leader/civ for FIN/ORG its Darius-Persia . Immortals , you can even early warmonger with these powerful UUs . The UB replaces the grocer and gives a +2 health bonus which is a nice little EXP trait quality .
Darius can be the perfect warmonger or peacemonger . The extra commerce and savings is benificial to both styles . If you warmonger you can still keep your research at 70% and earn some gold to boot . Cheap courthouses help take care of some of the expenses of taking over enemy cities . For later in the game you can go for expensive civics like police state but it won't be all that expensive .

 

[Sjaramei]

Charismatic and Organized. Awesome traits for domination. (i hate not having the +2 happy from Charismatic early game, it's invaluable)

 

[zenspiderz]

I am a SE junkie at the moment so philosophical is a no brainer for fav trait.

Peter of Russia is my fav for the space win; philo + expansive + bee-lined and then spammed research institutes = very powerful late game SE tech rate and spaceship build.

I like spiritual but have not had much luck with it combination with philo since this combo moved from saladin to ghandi with warlords.

 

[classical_hero]

Financial and Philosophical are a great combo, since you get great gain from both a CE and SE economy.

 

[Terrance888]

I like Charm and Agg! 2 promos with barracks and instructer baby!

 

[Mortac]

I usually prefer any combination of Charismatic/Financial/Organised. I just can't put any other trait at the same level as these. Of course, traits also matter in strength depending on if you play multiplayer or not, and which victory conditions you have selected, and if you intend to warmonger or not. Financial is also less favorable on pangea-style maps. Organised is not that awesome early on, but becomes really great later in the game. I have a tendency to have sorted out my economy by the late game however.

I do not find that Firaxis have balanced the traits out very well, and most anyone would agree, which makes it a bit odd that they don't improve the less liked ones. I suppose developers usually have a tendency to ignore their communities.

 

[mintyfreshdeath]

Playing as Agg/Pro Tokugawa has always worked out very well for me, particularly rifling and onwards. I also love Imp/Agg

 

[remko]

I love creative/organized 6 cheap buildings cheap civic upkeep and fast cultural border expansion

 

[troytheface]

phil/charismatic (Lincoln) ...second and third on the poll that someone took on "favorite trait" as voted on by viewers....(Fin/ #1 as voted on)

 

[GT_OKEZ]

I am a SE junkie at the moment so philosophical is a no brainer for fav trait.

Peter of Russia is my fav for the space win; philo + expansive + bee-lined and then spammed research institutes = very powerful late game SE tech rate and spaceship build.

I like spiritual but have not had much luck with it combination with philo since this combo moved from saladin to ghandi with warlords.

Peter was one of my favorites . The EXP trait goes very nice with PHI . However I find a Financial triat more useful and the PHI trait can almost be copied by constructing the right buildings and perhaps taking on Pacificism . Of course PHI is always gonna have that edge , especially in the early game but I found I can still suppport a large army w/ FIN and incorperate pacifism .
Using Fin/Org ( Darius) I found I can still compete will with the PHI player in GP production .

If I want to focus on GPs , I might pick Elizabeth , an all time favorite . I like the ' hybrid economy' concept .

 

[AfterShafter]

Spiritual, organized, expansive, financial are probably my favorite traits, in that order. Oddly enough, my favorite leader is probably Ramses of the Egyptians, who only has one of those traits... But Mehmed, Pacal, and Asoka all fit the bill a bit better. Shaka and Wang Kon are also two of my favorites, with each one only having one of my favorite traits.

 

[DigitalBoy]

My favorite trait combos are Agg/Phi (Alexander the Great), Agg/Cre (Kublai Khan), Cre/Org (Augustus Caesar in Warlords or Zara Yaqob in Beyond the Sword), or Cha/Phi (Abraham Lincoln).

I like Alexander and Kublai Khan for warmongering. Zara Yaqob is pretty well-balanced with some emphasis on land grabbing. Lincoln is rather fun to play a builder game with.

 

[eewallace]

Almost any combo with financial is exellent--probably elizabeth and huayna being my favorites.

But one of my current favorites is spiritual+industrious, plus building pyramids and shewdagon paya, for an extremely flexible civics-switching game.

 

[AfterShafter]

Almost any combo with financial is exellent--probably elizabeth and huayna being my favorites.

But one of my current favorites is spiritual+industrious, plus building pyramids and shewdagon paya, for an extremely flexible civics-switching game.

Oh yeah, mighty Ramses... Add to that possibility of a war chariot rush, chance for an early religion, UB that makes early great prophets easy, and you have one rock on Civ