IS Domination Broke or...

[IAM]

Is Domination Victory broken or is it just me. Almost every game that I am coming up on Domination victory I'll have 35% to 40% land area and already be at 50% to 55% population. Partially I understand that in attacking an AI I capture mostly their best cities which ussually are higher population.

It just seems that perhaps the thresholds should be different. OR am I the only one in this situation... if so; advice?

 

[DaveMurray]

Move up a difficultly level. If you're already playing at Deity, don't start your wars until the Renaissance.

 

[unclethrill]

Getting the population limit is easy. By having the huge difference you can milk your score by really increasing your population while not crossing the land limit until later. If a high score is not what your looking for, then switch to slavery and slave away that excess population. It will make capturing the needed land easier.

 

[tsentom1]

You can always edit the VictoryInfos file and set them to whatever percentages you want...

 

[champ82]

@ OP - It’s not just you but it’s not everybody. I find culture and space the easiest.

 

[LegionSteve]

Is Domination Victory broken or is it just me. Almost every game that I am coming up on Domination victory I'll have 35% to 40% land area and already be at 50% to 55% population. Partially I understand that in attacking an AI I capture mostly their best cities which ussually are higher population.

It just seems that perhaps the thresholds should be different. OR am I the only one in this situation... if so; advice?

I have noticed the same thing, when I go for domination I hit the required population % long before I get near the required land %. But from looking at the victory conditions screen, the AIs don't. If anything it's the reverse, they seem to do slightly better with their land % than their pop %. So maybe the required % are set that way on purpose, to give the AI a (very slight) chance of ever getting a domination win.

 

[Crusher1]

@ OP - It’s not just you but it’s not everybody. I find culture and space the easiest.

X2. But throw in diplomatic as easy too. Domination forces you to manage a large empire while the rest allow you to win with very few cities - less planning - less managing - and hitting enter for a longer period of time until you win.

 

[JonathanStrange]

Yeah, most of my wins have been cultural and domination, but domination feels more tedious to achieve since at a certain point victory's very likely but getting it requires knockin' a few more heads. I wouldn't lower the percentages personally, because they're lonly a rough indicator of what's going on but I know what it feels like to see the stats creep slowly towards the right percentage...

 

[mechaerik]

I prefer conquest.

 

[UWHabs]

I've wondered that too, but I think it's to balance out with diplo win.

So, in my current game, after my recent conquests, I was sitting around 58% pop, but still only maybe 40-45% of landmass. In that case, I decided to turtle up, grab the UN, and coast to an easy UN win (since I had like 4 vassals, I knew I could get the votes), instead of going for the other 20% of the land that I would have needed.

The key to a domination win is you dominate the land. UN win means you dominate in population. Often times it's easier to get conquest than domination (especially on a map like Earth 18). If domination was also based on pop, then you could just turtle up, farm everything, and make your cities grow bigger, even if you're on a smaller continent.

 

[justininian II]

I got domination on a duel... size matters!
That was the best game I ever played-- but my gold was absolutely ZERO, my sci slider was also, and I lost like seven units from "an axeman unit has been disbanded for insuffiecient funds"
I was Byzantanium, vs Alexander
I had like thirty cities