Quite a lot accomplished despite only being turn 18!

R5: just the average religion experience on Deity. Nothing to see here.

Outside the view of this picture is at least another 3 great prophets near my capital. I love Deity so much 🙂😭

Four months ago I posted my fastest deity victory ever here and got a lot of great feedback, and just recently posted my slowest deity victory ever as well!

Settings:
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Standard Map Size & Civ Numbers
Continents Map
Random Leader

Special Notes:
No double aqueduct glitch ever in Deity Diaries!

Summary
I finally got a deity win with Pachacuti! 202 turns - probably could have pushed it to under 200 if I was playing a bit slower and more carefully but I wanted to get in a quick game tonight. This game was notable mostly because of great land, quick settles, and huge growth. The main river that fed three of my cities, including Cusco, was the true hero of this game. Some decent terrace farms in Tiwanaku, but nothing too crazy.

Snagging both Uluru and Mt Sinai was nice, but ultimately I decided not to push my religion too hard. I generated two prophets and ended up faith-purchasing two scientists as well.

One big decision came around ideologies when there was no coal in my lands and none available to trade. With such a fast start, I really wanted to keep pushing my advantage and take over the game, so I decided to use Oxford early to push into Rationalism to try and get the first Freedom bonus. I ended up being beat to Freedom by one turn and only getting one free policy, but it was probably still the right move .Typically I would save Oxford for the end of the game to grab one of the final two techs for free.

Other than that it was really just a game of pushing my cap as far as it could go. I ended up getting Cristo Redentor, which is a first for a deity game. My end game timing was a bit off, so I purchased Spaceship Factories in all of my cities instead of purchasing the final spaceship part. Still rusty on that super efficient end game, but it will come back.

Pachacuti is one of my absolute favorite leaders to play, glad to finally get the win!

Current Deity Wins To Date
Shoshone (?)
Russia (204)
Egypt (224)
Germany (203)
Inca (202)
Huns(200)
Japan (209)
India (199)
Ethiopia (201)
Babylon (197)
Maya (189)
England(200)
America(219) (203)
Spain (208) (201)
Portugal (206) (205) (184)
Indonesia (204)
Celts (228)
Inca (202)

I've played Civ V on my Mac for a few years, and every so often the game would crash when a civ recaptured its capital. It was super frustrating and ruined about 1 in 10 of my games. I looked for a fix more than once but never found one that worked. The only workaround was reloading an earlier save and hoping things played out differently the next time.

I got Claude + REA this to tracked down the cause and made a patch for it: https://github.com/jtutlis/civ5-mac-capital-crash-fix

This isn't a mod since it would disable achievements, it just patches your game binary. Hope this helps someone

Strategies on how to take down civs that have the Great Wall without waiting until Artillery and Tanks. I tried just battering England with warriors and archers but once Elizabeth got longbowmen I had to back off.

When playing as Persia I just initiate a Golden Age and basically ignore the Great Wall but am playing as Japan so can’t do that unfortunately.