Now, it's possible to stay heathen throughout the entire game, gaining for cultural benefits of ALL religions in your empire.
This neutrality means that no-one will really hate you, but on the other hand no-one will really like you enough to support you.
What this means is at some point an AI might decide to attack you (despite not really hating you, it just smells oppurtunity), but you wont have any friends at all! Thus the AI can bring in his friends and gangbang you.
On the other hand being religious guarantees you some enemies, but you can also get a staunch friend or two who will back you up in a war, and possibly more importantly, WONT join in the gang-banging.
In some ways it's a pity that success depends largely on avoiding being dogpiled, but I'm also impressed by the degree of diplomatic strategy involved.
CIV is definitely very strategically interesting at many levels.
This neutrality means that no-one will really hate you, but on the other hand no-one will really like you enough to support you.
What this means is at some point an AI might decide to attack you (despite not really hating you, it just smells oppurtunity), but you wont have any friends at all! Thus the AI can bring in his friends and gangbang you.
On the other hand being religious guarantees you some enemies, but you can also get a staunch friend or two who will back you up in a war, and possibly more importantly, WONT join in the gang-banging.
In some ways it's a pity that success depends largely on avoiding being dogpiled, but I'm also impressed by the degree of diplomatic strategy involved.
CIV is definitely very strategically interesting at many levels.
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