First: Impressive play again!
But I also would like to hear why you don´t like religions...
There are a lot of problems. But in a nut-shell, gathering a bunch of these ends up with the AI becoming holy brothers with each other. You do not want this. You want them to found religions, because they will go fanatical over them, and this causes them to stop trading, and start pillaging at each other. Which puts you in a much better situation.
The problems get a lot more in depth than that, but that's the biggie.
P.S. Cabert, I changed the word to hunting. After writing a long write-up I have problems with trying to catch any wordings, typos, and other errors. I don't doubt there may be some others so forgive me if there are.
To the rest for the
just lucky part. I just use what ever the RNG gives me. I admit that I use wonders and specialists to GEAR me in a specific situation. I run a lot of priests because I don't mind getting priests. And I sometimes halt the NE because I don't want to risk getting a GA, and the same goes for Parthenon.
Some notes: I don't always start on GW first. Usually I start on SH before, HOWEVER; I ALWAYS shift que to GW as soon as masonary is researched. And I don't switch back until that GW is complete.
GW ALWAYS is made first, which means I am ALWAYS biased to get a GE. Now due to the RNG it is possible I may get a GP instead of a GE. That's fine. I love GP's and I am always doing things to maximize GP's over anything else when I have the chance (excluding emergency tech race). I will NEVER COMPLAIN about getting a Prophet!
I will admit that a GE has an advantage over the GP because of the buildings GE can rush anything, but GP can only be used on Shrines. And as everyone knows, I hate shrines, so you are correct in that I would put a GE higher up on the totem pole than a GP. But I am never terribly upset if I get one.
What makes me terribly upset is if I get an Artist. Even a merchant would give me +1F which is something I can put to use. But I have no interest for culture, and I don't care about the 4 pennies a GA gives me, since if I needed money I'd be building silly cottages.
If someone thinks I'm just lucky, they are free to go over the logs in the saves. I believe each time is logged for each wonder built. So it would not take a genius to figure out if I was getting the wrong Great Persons pop out at any time.
That said, I will probably shelf the game after this. I've spent too long trying to prove some myth's and other things on these matters. And it seems there will always be some great controversy here.
Maybe I'll come back in a month or two, or maybe next year, who knows. I have been coming on and off over the years to this site since we were playing Civ III pre-conquests.
Take care all, and enjoy life... it's just a game.
, because I'm not able to test it.
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