Any tips for winning a diplomatic victory?
I recently finished my first 50% speed game of GS, and I have to say, the diplomatic victory really skirted me. I got close like 3 times, only to be voted down with 45 votes against my 23 (23-25). The technology helped me stay at 8 points but every time voting came back around I got shutdown. Canada was the biggest opponent of my victory, so maybe it was their doing, but I feel I could've maxed out my chances better had I done something differently. I was playing as Australia.
Posted Feb 22, 2019, 5:50 AM UTC
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In My first GS game I won Diplomatic on emperor difficulty with Dido. Basically, it was an accident. I was going for science, and trying to stay peaceful as much as possible and just fight wars if I had some grievances (thanks TR, for breaking the ‘no spying’ promise enough times for me to acquire half your empire).
I always traded my luxuries and strategic resources as soon as I could for max lump-sum gold + diplomatic favor. I saved favor from votes I didn’t care about in the early game. In the late game I won all the contests, and use diplomatic favor to earn bonus diplomacy points.
Some contests were hard, like CO2 minimization. Luckily, I was far enough in science to unlock carbon recapturing. For that contest, any city that could do the carbon recapturing project was assigned to do it. I used to production queue to make them basically do whatever project was best for some contest for the duration of the contest.
So based on what your saying, my mistake was being unsure of what victory type I was going for, and as a result I didn't hoard my diplomatic points. I usually stay on prince diff, so I don't know if maybe that has an effect on it or not.
That doesn't sound like you won by accident, but rather you worked to get a diplomatic win.
Maybe .. I really wanted the science V, though it was convenient to go for Diplomacy in the end. I only hoarded the diplomacy points because I didn’t have a real use for them, and others were willing to throw them away. Having the scientific achievement of CO2 recapturing ended up sealing the deal imho.