I'm trying to beat deity. After playing emperor/immortal for a while, it became obvious that trading luxuries for gold is central to victory. The amount they give is certainly large but didn't seem like an exploit; just a necessary game mechanic to allow players to compete. But naturally I discovered that you could very easily milk the AI for all of its gold by DOW'ing, or even better (zero diplomatic repercussions) by having the resources repeatedly pillaged and repaired. I don't see how you can argue that this isn't an exploit, but it's part of the game. Worst of all, it's up to the player to determine how much to abuse it, which puts power gamers like me in a bad spot.
I'm going to try to play with a new rule "no lump sum trades", but I'll still have a bitter taste in my mouth.
So does anyone else think lump sum trades should be removed from the AI?
I'm going to try to play with a new rule "no lump sum trades", but I'll still have a bitter taste in my mouth.
So does anyone else think lump sum trades should be removed from the AI?