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I'm enjoying it... but there's just... something. I'm not a civ pro or anything... but is anyone else coming to some of these same conclusions?:
1) Cities states are pretty worthles, unless you exploit them via Siam.
- They don't really go on offense... ever. I've seen them declare war countless times, just to sit there and do nothing.
- They get steamrolled so easily. Forget diplomatic victory... 80% of them are dead by late game.
2) The AI can't use the oceans worth a damn.
- Out of the 4-complete games I've done, I've not once seen the AI use its navy in any effective capacity... or even try to. I've seen whole conitents go to war, but not send any ships to attack.
3) Military victory is 10 times easier than any other victory. In fact, if you are going to try for any other victory, you may as well just stop, and change to a military one. Because:
- You need vast resources (ie cities) to complete any of the victories.
- To get vast resources, you need a big army to conquer dudes.
- If you've wiped out an AI's army, they won't be recovering any time soon, so you may as well just conquer the whole empire... and so on, until you wipe everyone out.
Am I doing it wrong?
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Once you have Theology and you are in the medieval era each maritime city-state you are allied with gives you +4/+2 food bonus. You can trade your resources to other cities to get the monehy to ally with the city-states. You can use this to grow your city, allowing you to focusing on production in yoru city.
I can't comment on your second point, because I have not had enough experience with ocean battles.
On your third point, I think it is directly related to map size. If you play on the largest map size, cultural victory is way easier. I played a 1 city challenge with Ghandi and obtained a cultural victory. I think in that particular game, culutural was much easier than a military victory would have been.
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