Its Easy To Be Powerful!!!

[King Bubba Jean]

all you have to do is build a whole bunch of cities and people already assume your a whole lot better than them

 

[Mr Spice]

They tend to judge you by the size of your military, not the number of cities. But of course it is easier to maintain a large army with many cities.

 

[King Bubba Jean]

oh so thats why they thought i was powerful thanks

 

[No.Dice]

A large part of your power on the histograph is judged by number of cities. This what makes an ICS a powerful deity strategy, or rather exploit. Build cities 1-2 squares away from each other, and renogotiate peace treaties with the AI civs, taking several of their cities.

I wonder if they dealt with this in 1.21, maybe undocumented?