Randall Turner
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- Feb 8, 2011
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I doubt that GL is a wise move on Deity unless you're willing to restart if you miss it (which is a bit cheesy IMO). I tried it yesterday on Immortal with a straight beeline (mining->writing, two chops) and wasn't even near to get it. Others have reported they have got it easily, so it seems to be very game-dependent. However, if you lose it you're left in a very bad shape, so the risk is great. And the effect isn't so big after all as you can only take Philosophy. You will get Philo around the same time by just researching it.
This. (wonder completion being game-dependent.) The AI was very agressively building Wonders in my first game. I restarted (not because of missing wonders, because of the damn Aztecs overrunning me while I still only had one city) and managed to build a few key Wonders, including the Great Libarary. (On Deity, both games.) Small sample size, still.
I'm no warmonger at heart, but in my first game I'm running Honor with the Aztecs, and it's FUN. In my previous Aztec games pre-patch, they always seemed better suited as a builder civ, and I'm guessing that this new version is the way they were originally intended.
These numbnuts have started right next to me on both my games so far, I'm glad you're enjoying them, I'm starting to seriously dislike them.

Odd that they declared war so soon in my first game, I didn't really have a weak military nor was I expanding towards them. <shrug> I can see how their culture points would really pay off, I'm getting a significant boost from Barbarian culture even as a "normal" civ. (Playing as Songhai, hunting them for the money, but the little blue "6" floating up is nice, too.)
These guys (stoopit Aztecs) are #1 on my hit parade now that I've got an infrastructure set up, by the way.
