Odin's Eye
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I'm not sure how well known this is, but I just made an odd discovery. Apparently, the diplomatic victory triggers the moment you hit 20/20 points, even if you lost the +/- 3 point resolution and end up at 18 or 19 points by the end of the session.
I was playing a game as Pericles on Immortal and had 18 diplomatic victory points. I had about 1,500 favor, which I didn't think was quite enough to brute force a vote for the 3 victory points against the no votes of everyone else. When the last session of the world congress came around, there were 3 proposals, the last one being the +/- 3 point resolution. I put minimum votes in the first two proposals and actually voted against myself for the 3 points on the theory that I couldn't win yet but maybe I could waste everyone else's favor and come back in the next session to give myself the points.
The next thing I know, the diplomatic victory video is playing. Apparently, I won the vote on the first two proposals, which put me at 20 victory points, then the -3 point resolution passed, dropping me back to 18 points (17, but I "won" the vote so I got a point for that).
This might be marginally useful going forward. If you are at 18 or 19 points but think you are going to lose the +/- 3 point resolution, it might actually be worth going all in on the first two resolutions to get yourself over the 20 point threshold even though you will lose 3 points on the last proposal.
I was playing a game as Pericles on Immortal and had 18 diplomatic victory points. I had about 1,500 favor, which I didn't think was quite enough to brute force a vote for the 3 victory points against the no votes of everyone else. When the last session of the world congress came around, there were 3 proposals, the last one being the +/- 3 point resolution. I put minimum votes in the first two proposals and actually voted against myself for the 3 points on the theory that I couldn't win yet but maybe I could waste everyone else's favor and come back in the next session to give myself the points.
The next thing I know, the diplomatic victory video is playing. Apparently, I won the vote on the first two proposals, which put me at 20 victory points, then the -3 point resolution passed, dropping me back to 18 points (17, but I "won" the vote so I got a point for that).
This might be marginally useful going forward. If you are at 18 or 19 points but think you are going to lose the +/- 3 point resolution, it might actually be worth going all in on the first two resolutions to get yourself over the 20 point threshold even though you will lose 3 points on the last proposal.
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