After absolutely dominating at my first try at emperor with Darius, I've decided to make the jump to Diety to see what it's like. I just bought the DLC packs, so I'll be playing as Korea. I've decided to pick a huge Earth map, since I'm quite familiar with it from my days in Vanilla, but to counter that advantage I'll choose all the DLC leaders (whom I've never played with before so they'll be pretty unpredictable) as my opponents with the rest of the slots filled by randoms.
I will be cheating a little, resetting until I get a good start near a mountain on a coast, preferably near the desert, which means an African or Arabian start. I'll also quicksave frequently in the first few turns and load back when I discover a ruin until it becomes a unit upgrade, faith, or tech ruin. If the AI ever looks like it's about to declare war on me, I'll give it loads of GPT in exchange for all its gold so that when war begins and the deal is cancelled I will have a net gain of plenty of gold.
So I'm wondering what strategy would be good to use. I don't necessarily want to win, I just want to hold off until the game ends. I'm thinking of going for Great Library, then National College, then Stonehenge, then the Hagia Sophia and the Great Mosque. My religion will be desert folklore with pilgrimage, divine inspiration, religious texts, and swords into plowshares so that I can accrue loads of faith to spend on Great Scientists once freedom is unlocked. Is there anything you can recommend to help me survive?
I will be cheating a little, resetting until I get a good start near a mountain on a coast, preferably near the desert, which means an African or Arabian start. I'll also quicksave frequently in the first few turns and load back when I discover a ruin until it becomes a unit upgrade, faith, or tech ruin. If the AI ever looks like it's about to declare war on me, I'll give it loads of GPT in exchange for all its gold so that when war begins and the deal is cancelled I will have a net gain of plenty of gold.
So I'm wondering what strategy would be good to use. I don't necessarily want to win, I just want to hold off until the game ends. I'm thinking of going for Great Library, then National College, then Stonehenge, then the Hagia Sophia and the Great Mosque. My religion will be desert folklore with pilgrimage, divine inspiration, religious texts, and swords into plowshares so that I can accrue loads of faith to spend on Great Scientists once freedom is unlocked. Is there anything you can recommend to help me survive?