Dear Pros: Much Harder Now?

[Catt]

YS - I think I've seen you post elsewhere that you're playing repeated attempts in the ancient age and then starting over -- if you are doing this, keep in mind that you're giving yourself very few chances at an SGL. Most likely, the entire first row of techs is known at the start by at least one civ. I doubt that you will be successful at researching more than 2, out the outside 3, second level techs with any degree of regularity. That leaves just a few additional chances for SGLs. My tentative early view is that securing ancient age SGLs will be harder than securing ancient age MGLs is (or was in PTW).

For those asking about the corruption and gpt bugs, just check out alexman's topped thread in the conquest forum, or the bug reports toppedthread in the conquests forum. The short answer is: (1) the FP and SPHQ will actually increase your corruption, or in the most ideal of circumstances, show no overall increase in corruption but provide no benefit either; (2) a "fix" to RCP has resulted in higher corruption than was found in PTW; and (3) any gold-per-turn payments are counted twice by the civ receiving gpt -- if you get 100 gpt for a tech trade, you'll get 100 gpt to spend and your treasury will also grow by 100 gpt too.

Catt

Edit: spelling and clarity

[vmxa1]

I concur, I have not gotten an ancient age SGL in any game. I have ToE done in this game and have help 3-4 tech lead for the last age and still have no SGL's.

so if you want to see one, you should at least play through the middle ages, even that is not looking all that strong.

[geniemalin]

Playing as the Byzantines I got an early tech lead and kept it (Seafaring gives you a coastal capital for Colossus and a fast Curragh for contacts, so is the perfect early synergiser with Scientific) and have gotten one late Ancient and one Middle Ages SGL so far.