Let's post our initial thoughts while playing BWN over the next few weeks. :)
My favorite part is how everything ties together. Espionage can buy votes at the World Congress, which can embargo trade with a leader. Trade spreads religion, and religion influences tourism. Enacting a world religion or ideology in the Congress has a profound impact. It's all connected now!
Here's a tip: you can move a diplomat after purchasing a World Congress vote! Purchase one vote, then send her to a new leader, and purchase another vote. Each one takes about 5 turns to accomplish. We can purchase half the votes on the Congress to assure our resolution passes. This is really helpful to establish an early World Religion.
I find trade routes more exciting than passive terrain yields for rivers/coast. Ports are really vital, as sea trade routes provide double gold! Trade routes also naturally balance tech progress from science streaming out of highly advanced nations. I noticed foreign trade income is about a third of our total gold supply by midgame. This means losing trade routes can really cripple our economy. Some of the trade boosting buildings encourage us to cluster all our trade in one city, but if we do, it makes our routes more vulnerable to a mass attack. It becomes critically important to protect those routes with land and sea units.
One other small thing I like is they included more stuff in the Score, like policies and great works.
The best approach to culture victory seems like:
My favorite part is how everything ties together. Espionage can buy votes at the World Congress, which can embargo trade with a leader. Trade spreads religion, and religion influences tourism. Enacting a world religion or ideology in the Congress has a profound impact. It's all connected now!
Here's a tip: you can move a diplomat after purchasing a World Congress vote! Purchase one vote, then send her to a new leader, and purchase another vote. Each one takes about 5 turns to accomplish. We can purchase half the votes on the Congress to assure our resolution passes. This is really helpful to establish an early World Religion.
I find trade routes more exciting than passive terrain yields for rivers/coast. Ports are really vital, as sea trade routes provide double gold! Trade routes also naturally balance tech progress from science streaming out of highly advanced nations. I noticed foreign trade income is about a third of our total gold supply by midgame. This means losing trade routes can really cripple our economy. Some of the trade boosting buildings encourage us to cluster all our trade in one city, but if we do, it makes our routes more vulnerable to a mass attack. It becomes critically important to protect those routes with land and sea units.
One other small thing I like is they included more stuff in the Score, like policies and great works.
The best approach to culture victory seems like:
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