V95 Playing China but about India

[dissatisfieduser]

I'm about 500 turns in and I had a look at the infoaddicts menu and saw something I felt was broken. India has about 40 policies whereas everyone else is below 30. India is getting a policy about every 5 turns pretty consistently across the game.

 

[dissatisfieduser]

Here are some screenshots from after I won the historical victory. The Turks really ran rampant across Europe, even taking New York sometime near the end.

 

[navivoleb]

In my games, the Turks and the English are the guys who share Europe.

 

[PiR]

I'm about 500 turns in and I had a look at the infoaddicts menu and saw something I felt was broken. India has about 40 policies whereas everyone else is below 30. India is getting a policy about every 5 turns pretty consistently across the game.

I've played India and it was more every 20 turns (around 1000 AD) until I adopted the policy decreasing the cost of policies then it was around 14 turns.

Maybe they spammed artists in your game?

 

[PiR]

The Turks really ran rampant across Europe, even taking New York sometime near the end.

Only to raze it! AI is amazing. Mounting such an operation accross an ocean just to raze the city. lol

 

[dissatisfieduser]

I've played India and it was more every 20 turns (around 1000 AD) until I adopted the policy decreasing the cost of policies then it was around 14 turns.

Maybe they spammed artists in your game?

I was the one spamming artists and great writers in the mid-game and it didn't see me catching up to India's culture production. If it's really not a bug, here's what I think was going on: India's unique ability is it reduces unhappiness per pop which grants it naturally higher happiness, combined with not a few CS allies giving more happiness and culture yields, combined with having all those pops working jungles with the pantheon that gives jungles culture yields, combined with the policies that turn happiness into culture and reducing the culture cost, combined with having four cities most of the game maxing out at 6; India was playing a game with lots of culture but with cheap policies.

Point is, I phrased it as a bug, but perhaps this was working as intended. 40 policies by turn 500 is ridiculous and needs to be nerfed: either the pantheon that gives jungle tiles culture should be removed or India's unique bonus needs to be changed.

Edit: also I was playing on Prince, so there shouldn't have been many or any bonuses to culture generation.

 

[PiR]

Or maybe for once the AI just played very well and consistently?