Why?????? Don't do that, keep on playing, you are flipping a lot of cities so you can't be too far away from 75000c. They are advanced? so what? I have seen 1200AD UN before, you just keep on 100% culture, strait ahead, don't look back.
well you saying there's a chance does give me hope, thank you
. if an emancipation vote passes i won't make it tho. the early 2 are spitting out a ton of culture on their own, but the GA Farm will need at least 3 more artists, and i just can't get them in time from any other city if i can't run caste, and it's debatable even if i can. i'm not even sure 3 will do it, i'm definitely not as good as knowing the dates and planning things out as you and WT are. *crossing my fingers*. what i do love is that i stole hagia sophia/spiral minaret city, the second city he built so it had to have quite a bit of culture in it, from the side of my empire that doesn't have any of my big 3 cities
! i put some culture over there just to ensure freddy didn't intrude my terrritory too much, and when that slider went up, he had no chance on the border really
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In terms of diplomacy, is anyone else not having any problems with the AI's? I've worker stolen and still not had any relationship problems. It's just so easy to get fair trade bonuses. Or am I just getting lucky?
i don't worker steal. i wish i understood how you guys pull off the worker stealing thing, since i'd love free workers! but i've never tried it, i'm not a brave soul, and i just know it would wreck my game forever as far as politics *giggle*.
diplomacy is flat-out critical for how i approach this gauntlet. i mentioned what a jerkface cyrus was being, and how scared i was, because that's not rare, that's unheard of. earning enough negatives with someone to be at cautious while simultaneously having +4 fair/forthright was a completely new experience for me. i wasn't even a heathen, i was still in NSR! i had pissed him off way too many times
. i think this was only the second time i put cyrus in as an opponent, i guess he's just a bad choice.
surprise DoWs from nowhere i have had happen. i depend on Pleased status to protect me from that given my guaranteed low power rating. i have permanently black-listed the leaders most likely to declare at pleased. victoria, who most seem to love having in their games, is one who is not invited to my parties, she's done it twice. altho she's not very warlike in general, she is really vicious backstabber in disguise (i'm telling the truth but yeah i'm kinda bitter still), and will declare at pleased on days the RNG or her mood tells her it might be fun. since that doesn't fit in with my strategy of how to not get declared on, and there are several leaders guaranteed not to declare at pleased, that's a showstopper, bye-bye vicky.
if you watched me play this gauntlet up to the point i turn off research, i doubt you'd be able to guess whether i'm going for diplo or culture other than the techs/wonders i concentrate on; i study the diplo screens that much
. it's easy to get the bonuses but for me that's not getting lucky. i want to be 100% sure iget those bonuses, i know that after a certain point i will not be able to get any new ones, unless they demand something civic/religion wise and i can give in (i love being spiritual). so i need to earn them early. and i have "hand out free tech" time when i get the pre-req for something i CBA to research myself but need as a prereq later, like machinery. when i finally get metalcasting in a trade from somebody, i hand it out like candy and hope someone gets mach and trades it to me so that i can get PP later. that's something i do in diplo games, to speed up global tech pace, but not in my non-gauntlet games where i actually, like, wanna be smarter than they are.
just my own 2
, earned while building my own workers
faces, i want my unlimited artists. *crosses fingers*
But there's no point in doing the ... hesitate ... testosterone thing of feeling like a wuss if you don't just take what the game throws at you. You have to embrace the rules and play them. It's actually quite interesting to do it that way and you do learn stuff that you can take back to the straight games. But there's no point competing and then hobbling your own legs. The game is what it is - and GotM etc provide opportunities to do the other thing.
) Well ... good luck 
keep at it and good luck.
! i'm certain that my people won't revolt to join another empire due to culture being better than mine. but sheesh, i'm in trouble if my great artists decide to move somewhere else because they're sick of their old fashioned clothes!
