I doubt Futurism can win autocracy games.
I have won plenty of games using futurism, the reason i started this post was simply to see if i could find a way to improve it.
And even if you have a 1000 tourism/turn, the trick with futurism is to not generate any culture GPP until you've hit futurism.
And the reason to go piety is to get lots and lots of faith that you can use to buy culture GPP. But i was wondering wether to enable that through a reformation belief, or finishing aesthetics.
Usually if i try to go for an autocracy culture victory what i do is pick a civ with decent faith bonuses like Maya( 2 faith shrines ), Askia ( maintanence free tempels ) or something in that direction. Then i open up with Liberty because many cities means lots of shrines and tempels, then open Piety to make those better, get secularism because it's the best policy in the game IMO, and when I've got futurism ( usually by oxfording radio ) i open aesthetics to further improve my generation of GPP. By this point you should have all your culture buildings built, your guilds city should have National Epic and preferably Leaning Tower as well ( basically anything that improves generation of great people ). At this point I usually spend all my saved up faith for GPP but i'm debating on wether i should wait with that a while, and when my tourism/turn gets higher, use all my faith for great musicians. Thoughts?
For religion i usually go tithe because gold OP, but maybe i should pick something else? Faith from ampitheaters is the other thing i pick. But here is the question: to spread religion for tourism modifier or to keep it as your own. This is important because if you want to spread it you can't really go follower production. And if you want to spread itinerant preachers is obvious due to the amount of cities you should have ( making pressure ridiculously high ), but if you keep it then maybe go cheaper prophets for more holy sites=more faith/turn to buy GPP with, or maybe something else?
These are my thoughts so far but i would love other peoples input. Remember that this strat is something that i'm ready to try both in SP and in MP.
Thnx in advance, Warimano