I promised myself I would stop making Yamama jokes but that one was semi-intentional

I’m such a child lol

The dumbest thing was I had hundreds of gigs on my D drive, I had just been saving to the C drive for no reason

Not even for the Great Elevator Strat?

@@suedeciviii7142 Nope. They can have a lot of gold at Sid.

@@Spoonwood Oh so using the road cut exploit to get the gold?

@@suedeciviii7142 Yes.

I disagree, unless your using road cut exploit trade with ai on sid is useless. They rarely ever honor there deal, if had so many deals cut short by ai. Also having excess gold is so minimal in benefit unless you got an absurd amount which is rather unlikely on Sid. Wonders are effects that you can’t get no other way, like GL, Pyramids, or SOZ. I’d ruin rep for any of those since it legit could win you the game, or put you in a position where winning is much more feasible.

Gonna record the next part now.

Great question! And the answer is complex. Generally I would say go for strong civs, if you can succeed at it. But ask yourself, do the weaker players have stuff you want? If they have lux, res, wonder with global effects, or techs they can give in trade deals, it makes sense to target them.

both! usually the stronger civs will declare war on you via a sneak attack because you're "weak" or a contender. Maybe you can declare them out of your territory to force war, or refuse one of their demands. The key is to make them declare war on YOU, so you get war happiness, and not weariness. Then recruit another civ or two on their border via a military alliance immediately if you can. Play defense first with the stronger Civ and don't immediately overextend on offense and get picked off - allow them to move units against ur allies then strike. try not to let your allies get run over and make the strong civ stronger. they can sign alliances too. you can give free resources or shit techs you dont need to neighbors so they are less likely to pile on you. The weaker civs can be your armies focus, and they are most important as Sued said is if your targeting a resource or land you really need immediately or really soon. It can be really bad if you're running through a weaker civ on one side of your empire and the stronger civ sneak attacks you from the other side.. avoid this. try to make sure immediate threats are already at war somewhere else before you commit to an attack elsewhere. maybe the weaker civ itself is already at war and you have to race to prevent a strong civ from accumulating more. It really is an opportunistic decision in the end. If everyone is at peace, no one is directly threatening you, no one has something you NEED, and you're ready to strike, i would go after whoever makes my borders safer, and gives more productive cities. Clearing the side of a continent where then you only border 2 civs instead of 3.. versus taking over a civ and now you have more new neighbors than before. you can then empty old border cities and concentrate units elsewhere.

⁠@@suedeciviii7142thanks man, it sounds kind of like a play it by ear kind of thing then? Usually the problem I face when playing on Demigod is that my wars take too long in the early game, which allows another civ to run away with the game, so I need to be more aware of that

@@Cygnus__X1thanks for that, that’s some really good advice

@@t.purkess9682Exactly Avoid grindy wars. get what you need and get out.

It's not out yet!

@@suedeciviii7142 That would be why then lol