u/Less_Hold6979

Twice now Xerx the Jerx has tried settling near the Great Barrier Reef, and twice he's chosen such an awful location to settle around it. Seriously dude, why not go a few spaces to the southeast so you can get all four tiles?? AND you'd get a nice little fake canal through that island! Funny enough, I conquered the initial town he tried to lay down there, only for his Independent would-be ally to steal it from me an burn it down to the ground. A few turns after we settled for peace, he brought his second terrible settlement to that island before my settler could take it. Now I guess I'll have to burn that one down too to get a better town there.

But why does the AI decide to have such stupid locations for their towns? It's like they just decide to plop one down anywhere without any rhyme or reason.

This is my culture output with Heian at the end of Antiquity with Toyotomi. I'm getting +216 culture on the Jo-Bo System I. I know the update just came out, but is Heian the new strongest culture civ?

Interesting side effect of the new ToT update: I set all the AI civ options to random, just to add in a little craziness to everything. As a result, Tecumseh chose Siam in Antiquity only to change to Shawnee in Exploration. In turn, Amina (who was obviously Greek in Antiquity and Ming in Exploration) decided to become Siam in the Modern Age. So did Amina hear about the wonders of the old Siamese and tried to emulate their society in Modernity? Or are they two completely separate civs that both happen to have the name Siam?

After seeing the Triumph where you're at war with every Civ in the Homelands, I wanted to try a ToT Assyria game with Tubman, leading to a massive, no-holds-barred, no quarter slug fest with everyone in the game. Little did I know when I started the game that this Continents + Fractal Map only had Machiavelli with me. Oh well, at least I had enough of a fight taking him out, but now I'm sitting here for the rest of the era without anyone to goad into war. Ho Hum.

"And when Harriet Tubman saw the breadth of her domain, she wept, for there were no more civs to conquer."

R5: Tried to conquer the Incan capital. Unfortunately, they have Halicarnassus built from the Ancient Era. So when I defeated their lancer to claim the last district, the lancer respawned per the Mausoleum's rules...right in the district I had already defeated him in. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Not sure if it's a glitch or how it's supposed to happen, but super annoying!

This is most definitely somewhere outside of Alpha Centauri. I think. Wait, Mexico?? How the heck was I supposed to get that??

"Ah yes, dear Trung Trac. Please do try and assault my towns. Hope you don't find the water too..hot? Mwa ha ha ha!" Really it was her fault for trying to launch a war against me in the first place, she should have known better than to come up against the Burning Arrows across the Mississippi River.

R5: When you're trying to move a ship to a better attack position, but the game automatically places your route through the city center, turning it into an attack instead. Maddening. Or when you try to send your missionaries through a land you're at war with, but the path they're supposed to take goes through a city's walled districts. Does the game try to automatically create the next shortest route around the city? No. The missionaries are just going to sit there and pout until you give them a more complicated route. Maddening.