The keys to a diplomatic victory? (BNW)

[troc]

What should be your focus when pursuing a diplomatic victory?

-Should you try to become wealthy? (i.e. trade extensively with others)
-What are some key wonders?
-Key social policies?
-When should I ally CS?
-Any civs that are particularly good at diplo victories?

Generally speaking, what should be my "game plan" if i want to achieve a diplo victory??

(i'm kinda noobish, especially in BNW)

Thanks in advance, people...

 

[noontide]

This might be a long wound answer: I'm a Civ4 fan, but if I have to pick one thing that I like better in Civ5 than Civ4, it is that Civ5 is a more interwined game, so there is really no one strategy that fits one type of win. In Civ4 you see a lot of discussion about beeline one particular tech to get that Wonder you must have, and on high difficulties pretty much everyone is doing that ppl farm thing. In Civ 5, if you have to pick one factor over the other, I'd say growth, or "tall". A handful of well-fed cities is a very solid way to keep up with AIs at higher difficulties, that's of course over simplify things. But think of this: science grows with populaton, which advance you in ages, which in turn adds trade routes, and also, enable you to defend your cities better later into the game. You see ppl talking about going wide too of course, I'm just saying going tall is one of the ways, so key wonder, Artemis and Hanging Garden. And if you did go tall, specialists are powerful later in the game, so grab Pisa and Status of Liberty if you can, this becomes a watered-down version of ppl farm in Civ4.

When it comes to Diplomacy victory, there are already multiple threads here discussing how it becomes kind of inevitable, i.e. something to dodge rather than reach for, if you keep up with AI well into the atomic/info age.

 

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