Diplomatic

Diplomatic

Using diplomatic means to achieve victory in civilization stage is so-so.

You wont be able to ally with every nation.

Basically start out on your continent and destroy the other civs on your continent ether through religious, military or economic means. set up all your cites to make the most money possible without going in the red faces take out civs that have only one city.

stockpile your money when your vehicles are attacking a city and your city comes under attack build turrets and replace them when destoryed that should hold the enemy back on normal difficulty

Before you start with the multi city civs choose one to fight. Complement the other civs and give them money frequently. don't destroy you enemy too quickly. protect the other AI civs from your enemy to get the relation effect at the most.

You will get this relation on the other civs:


 * Your Complements
 * Your Gifts
 * You fought our Enemy

those should ofset the negatives


 * your nation is too big
 * your borders are too close
 * your a religious/military nation

Your allies will ask you to side with them against your other ally while you enemies are still alive deny them. You'll lose relationship with them but you can recover from that.

Try to ally with atleast 1-2 nations and keep them allies. When all the enemy nations are conquered your allies will offer to join together as one to keep peace in the world.

The advantage is you get all their cites like using the final power for your civ without the assigned affect on the card you get. Also all the cites are converted to which method of conquest you have been using mostly military, religious or economic.