As a result of a game I will probably quit out tonight, prince normal speed and continents, I had a thought for an alternative to the single city challange, the single religion challange.
Only one religion, no-one gets to found or there is too much of an advantage every city automatically gets it. onbviously the AP become more crucial. happiness is a real problem as religious building are limited and its a builders dreqam in a way as everyone is likely to be pleased with each other a lot of the time.
In the game i'm in ended on a not large continent with 4 other civs and i'm not sure how but we only have budism, somehow I missed founding a religion, big big mistake. There is not a single city with anything other than budism and basically it sucks. My start was not great, no cheating then, with few happiness resources and limited health with a fair amount of damn jungle. Got to 8 cities but towonga has 12 or so was behind tech wise but we are now at infantry and he is all caught up. Being first to riflemen with the other not very far behind I gambled I could go hard for space race and signed a defensive alliance with towonga allowing me to get a bit out of date troop wise in favour of tech. Basically my 8 cities, 2-3 of which are culturally challanged as they were taken from war around mace time.
Basically it didn't workand there is now way I can win now. I am damn sure I made mistakes but had religion been more varied might have stood a chance.
On a side note the larger continent over the way only started with 3 civs, now thats just not fair.
anyway what do you recon to a single religion challange..
Only one religion, no-one gets to found or there is too much of an advantage every city automatically gets it. onbviously the AP become more crucial. happiness is a real problem as religious building are limited and its a builders dreqam in a way as everyone is likely to be pleased with each other a lot of the time.
In the game i'm in ended on a not large continent with 4 other civs and i'm not sure how but we only have budism, somehow I missed founding a religion, big big mistake. There is not a single city with anything other than budism and basically it sucks. My start was not great, no cheating then, with few happiness resources and limited health with a fair amount of damn jungle. Got to 8 cities but towonga has 12 or so was behind tech wise but we are now at infantry and he is all caught up. Being first to riflemen with the other not very far behind I gambled I could go hard for space race and signed a defensive alliance with towonga allowing me to get a bit out of date troop wise in favour of tech. Basically my 8 cities, 2-3 of which are culturally challanged as they were taken from war around mace time.
Basically it didn't workand there is now way I can win now. I am damn sure I made mistakes but had religion been more varied might have stood a chance.
On a side note the larger continent over the way only started with 3 civs, now thats just not fair.
anyway what do you recon to a single religion challange..
would have to be removed or else it would be too easy to expand small cities. There would be some strange challenges, as declaring war one someone might mean death for you, because of all the negative modifiers. It'd be fun to try, though.
