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[10101100]

How much is it necessary to get the diplomacy buildings and units from the CSD mod for the domination and science victories?

 

[Rean]

Not at all necessary, but it never hurts.

 

[youngsteve]

Is it possible for a friendly nation to pillage your trade routes & it gets blamed on barbs. In my game I have three vassals, two of whom are Morocco & Inca's. We are currently at war with Cathage & allies so have made sure to move my traders away from them. Twice, my traders (caravan & cargo ship) have been ransacked by barbarians according to the log, but there haven't been any barbs on our continent for over 1,000 years, & both were deep in Morocco territory when this happened so even more suspicious. I have authority so know when any camps appear, & none have been around since classical age. I reckon Morocco did it, but have no proof, & is it possible they can. They also keep bleating about destroying their trade route, which is nonsense, & would know if I had. Only trade routes routed were the enemies, which Morocoo is also at war with.

 

[Rean]

It's part of Morocco's ability to plunder trade routes without declaring war, so yeah, most likely just them.

 

[Jiggly]

Do you share the reformation belief (in this case tourism to faith buildings and hotels) of someone elses religion in the cities that are converted to them even if you have your own religion?

 

[youngsteve]

It's part of Morocco's ability to plunder trade routes without declaring war, so yeah, most likely just them.

Never played Morocco, & never knew that. I can understand them having the ability to plunder trade routes but surely you would know. Also, this seems to be a bit silly considering they are my vassal & we have DOF & good relations. Understood if it was someone they hated, though may well secretly hate me.

 

[Solic]

Never played Morocco, & never knew that. I can understand them having the ability to plunder trade routes but surely you would know. Also, this seems to be a bit silly considering they are my vassal & we have DOF & good relations. Understood if it was someone they hated, though may well secretly hate me.

You will know it's them if you have vision of the trade route being pillaged. Otherwise you will get a notification it's barbarians as far as I know.

 

[SuperNoobCamper]

How much is it necessary to get the diplomacy buildings and units from the CSD mod for the domination and science victories?

If i understand your question correctly (about optimizing your chances at winning rather than something technical) you really want the chancery as early as you can if you have some nearby citystates that you can befriend as each city with a chancery gets 2 for each CS friend which is a big deal by the time you unlock them and allows for instant purchase of diplomacy units with gold.
later buildings are not as urgent in my build order as the chanceries (whether it's the wire service or the National wonders unless i'm hurting for paper).
For domination victory i tend to have my closest CS allied after entering the medieval era (before that i prefer tributing to alliance) to have someone to trade with and securing my borders .... the rest of the CS i cannot maintain an alliance serve as a fodder for my army.
CS really help science victory if you are able to pass Scholars In residence, so if you can maintain an alliance with the CS (both the chancery and wire service are worth it if you have enough CS allied) you would be researching techs way faster.

 

[Recursive]

Never played Morocco, & never knew that. I can understand them having the ability to plunder trade routes but surely you would know. Also, this seems to be a bit silly considering they are my vassal & we have DOF & good relations. Understood if it was someone they hated, though may well secretly hate me.

AI Morocco isn't supposed to plunder trade routes if you have a DoF, this is a bug. Savegame would be appreciated.

You will know it's them if you have vision of the trade route being pillaged. Otherwise you will get a notification it's barbarians as far as I know.

This is correct. When a human plays Morocco they likewise won't get diplomacy penalties if they do it out of sight.

(Doesn't apply human to human or while at war)

 

[LifeOfBrian]

In my opinion Great Scientists have been nerfed way too much. How can I manually adjust the amount of turns of science bulbing a Great Scientist gives?

 

[4CV]

Is it possible for a friendly nation to pillage your trade routes & it gets blamed on barbs. In my game I have three vassals, two of whom are Morocco & Inca's. ......

Are you sure your vassals are "friendly nations"? If Morocco had capitulated to me I wouldn't expect them to be...

 

[Jiggly]

Can you utilize another civs Reformation belief if you adopt their religion in majority of your cities even if you ALREADY have your own religion?

 

[youngsteve]

Are you sure your vassals are "friendly nations"? If Morocco had capitulated to me I wouldn't expect them to be...

Who knows what nations are friendly. All I know he was my vassal & we had a DOF & open borders so presume so.

 

[psparky]

Can you utilize another civs Reformation belief if you adopt their religion in majority of your cities even if you ALREADY have your own religion?

My understanding is that you cannot unless you lose control of your original holy city.

 

[InkAxis]

In my opinion Great Scientists have been nerfed way too much. How can I manually adjust the amount of turns of science bulbing a Great Scientist gives?

Community Balance Patch\Balance Changes\Units\UnitChanges.sql

probably this on line 46-48:

-- Great Scientist science boost lowered slightly.

   UPDATE Units SET BaseBeakersTurnsToCount = '3' WHERE Type = 'UNIT_SCIENTIST' AND EXISTS (SELECT * FROM COMMUNITY WHERE Type='COMMUNITY_CORE_BALANCE_UNITS' AND Value= 1 );

 

[Alpharius]

Can you utilize another civs Reformation belief if you adopt their religion in majority of your cities even if you ALREADY have your own religion?

I'd say yes you can. I remember being able to purchase universities and public schools with faith when some of my cities were converted.

I already founded and enhanced my religion, though I didn't have my own reformation belief so I'm not sure if it's a relevant factor.

 

[Alpharius]

Is it normal to get more than 900 warmonger diplo penalty from capturing a single city? It was the Moroccan capital btw. It's my first time getting this high of a Warmonger penalty. I have 900+ for both Morocco and Egypt(directly adjacent neighbors) and 140+ for Sweden and America(Next nearest neighbors)

 

[Recursive]

Is it normal to get more than 900 warmonger diplo penalty from capturing a single city? It was the Moroccan capital btw. It's my first time getting this high of a Warmonger penalty. I have 900+ for both Morocco and Egypt(directly adjacent neighbors) and 140+ for Sweden and America(Next nearest neighbors)

Morocco will certainly hate you.

May be excessive for Egypt.

 

[LifeOfBrian]

Thanks, InkAxis

 

[Jiggly]

It is Modern era and all of a sudden it says impossible when I try to give my open borders to other Civs. Is this a bug or is the AI making it impossible so I don't steamroll them with tourism?