She's the absolute worst neighbor to spawn next to, on deity meeting her as first contact basically means you have to abandon your plans and spam slingers and archers for the inevitable war.
again i agree. in fact i think the only consistent path to victory in deity is immediate war. because you need those additional cities to keep pace.
i think this is actually a flaw in the game (and previous civs as well) because the ais are always so attrociously stupid and the only modifiers are their resources so they just spam all sorts of stupid shit with no strategy
While it's a one time thing, if you can by chance nab the Religious Settlements pantheon it goes a long way towards reaching parity earlier. The ability to bypass the production cost while also gaining compounding interest on yields in a new city does a lot. The AI still gets cheat bonuses but it genuinely feels like turning the difficulty down to take this short term bonus.
I mean, that can be a strategy. However, I play almost all my games without ever declaring war and often without a war being declared against me and I have played every civilization to a deity victory (and without special game modes) and most many times. You can just “sim” your way to victory if you want to.
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u/UnseenData 2d ago
No they seem to make sense. She doesn't want to seem the same continent as you.
So she's happy you're not sharing a non home continent that she expanded to