cazaderonus
Actual Dad.
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2014
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- 640
Don't get all salty, man. Thing is, a game where you aim on a fast finish and your lands are virtually undefended are always treading on thin ice, sometimes that gamble doesn't pay off, bribes are a no-go and I'm pretty sure we've had many restarts where a late multiple DoW is pretty much KO
I'm not denying that fact, far from it. I just didnt like the way it was said is all. I think i'm entitled to that.
As for bribes they worked quite well until that AI decided she could war 3 people simultaneously, which coming from spain aint something i saw often. I got multiple DOWed late more than once but most of the time it happend i had trouble bribing AI i saw as threats early on.
Anyway, my game was faaaar from being perfect, or even good, so i'm not saying the game cheated me or anything. It's just always annoying when it happens and having someone state the obvious and giving the impression he didnt even red any parts of the story (i mean, not even stating the proper VC i was aiming for ?) is not especially helpfull. I'll take any advice any day, especially on how i could have sped up my Cultural Victory to avoid the risk of those late game dows. But a simple "you should have make more units" and "you can get a SV on any map" is just a no no for me.
I think my main screw ups here were :
- building cultural buildings too late (i was building them while popping archeologists)
- Getting to archeology too late, though i reached a fast 30 pop in my capitol. (Edu 110, ST 155/160 or so, archeology 175 something)
- Massive screw up with city states. Never managed to get any befriended. Even worse, i had the malus from attacking 2 different city states early for workers... Thought only 2 were mad but actually all CSes were -2/turn with me or worse. Decided to go on just to punish myself so i never do it again ever
- Still struggling with culture early but that goes back to CSes screw ups mostly as i still got decent times on artist\writer guilds.
So yeah, plenty of room for improvement here.