Poll: Best Civ Traits

[bleedblue]

I was just wondering what everyone thinks are the best civ traits. Personally, I like either scientific and industrious, or scientific and seafaring. How about you?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I like Industrious and Agricultural.

Industrious for faster workers and the extra shield

Agricultural for the fast expansion

 

[adog]

industrious, agricultural, and expansionist

 

[Marsden]

It's hard to vote for only one, but I chose scientific. It's just too handy for a good research game, the type I usually play.

The best overall are agricultural and industrious and commercial. They help through out the game. Ag means more food therefore more power.

Industrious and commercial are complementary to this by increasing either shields or commerce.

Scientific and Religous are nice, but if you don't play a style that has a lot of government changes religous is kind of limited.

Expansionist is good very early but rapidly goes away to nothing, adding no help later on. My least favorite

Militaristic sounds good, but really doesn't help. Barracks are already cheap, and if you use your troops correctly you can get enough elites without it.

Seafaring is nice, especially on archipeligo, but it's just like a quarter strength commercial with faster ships.

 

[The 777 Hoax]

Scientific, Commercial, Industrious.

 

[Tee Kay]

Industrious, religious, commercial

 

[Turner]

There is no "best one". It all depends on a variety of conditions. Anywhere from map size, number of civs, how much fresh water there is...even player skill. They all have their time and place.

As with most things, it's not what you have, but how you use it.

 

[adog]

Maybe it would be better titled "Favorite civ traits"

 

[azzaman333]

The best is undoubtadly Agricultural. It gives so much more power to any civ. Of course, certain combos can be better than agri, so it depends on the situation.

 

[Desertsnow]

Religious, far and away. I don't like to wait through anarchy. I also appreciate the Industrious, Militaristic, and Expansionistic traits, but most of my favorite civs are Religious.

 

[Bluemofia]

Personally, I like Militaristic, Scientific, and Industrious.

Industrious for making a military quickly.
Militaristic for getting expierence quickly.
Scientific for getting cheaper libraries and free techs.

 

[thetrooper]

Agricultural, industrious and commercial.

In that order.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Agricultural is without doubt the most powerful trait, but I can imagine situations where it is not so great.
My favourite is commercial which is always useful.
My personal ranking would be:
1.Commercial
2.Agricultural
3.Industrial
4.Seafaring
5.Expansionistic
6.Scientific
7.Militaristic
8.Religious

 

[Bartleby]

Mostly I'd go for Ag with Ind or Com, or Sea.
Under special circumstances other combos can be killer, eg. Exp+Sci for fast research.