Fippy
Mycro Junkie
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I can certainly understand your point, so far i have nothing against gifting cities for capitulation, but EP culture i really dislike.While I admire the skill of players and teams in using every tool at their disposal, the whole "gift cities to an AI and then immediately DoW and recapture them while they're undefended in order to get war success and make the AI capitulate" business has always struck me as exploitative. Gifting, running EP culture missions, and recapturing also induces my disdain. I would be in favor of an xOTM rule that you can't ever capture gifted cities (from the AI they were gifted to). And I'd like a pony and to be young again.
Turned our game into producing endless amount of Spies (boring city micro), GP were focused on GSpy and those like GMerchants were not even considered, which probably leads me to believe that EP culture makes this game less imaginative and deep, and i think that's not good.
Was entertaining when Plastic Ducks first used that, at this point adding to game value for some time, but once all mechanics are well explored it's an incredibly boring part of Civ that probably was never intended by it's developers.