What is your favorit affinity or affinities in the Poe version of the game, if you don't remember you can read about the affinites here. Please explain your choices if you can, like why do you prefer those affinities over the rest?

roger212 wrote:

Builder, because the buyout is nerfed to the ground, having farmers is useless because building the district is much better, aesthete has an underwhelming active and expansionist civs are situational in most cases except for the achamenid persians, maybe. I like scientist too but builder just seemed better in this build with all the stability problems that builder would let you ignore as long as you were pumping 1 building every 2 turns.

Agarian and builder affinities allow a strategy in which you ignore stability and use the passive parts of the affinites to keep your cities at high stability. Here you can read about the strategy.

Mine has to be scientist.

I’m someone who loves doing crazy things in games and while I personally don’t fully resonate with the cultures of this affinity, as much as I do with some others.  The ability to tech one era ahead just allows for so many interesting strategies.

I remember doing a Babylon into Rome game where as Babylon, I bee-lined the tech for Rome’s UU, and only a few turns after becoming Rome, I had a super powerful unit.  This was just so satisfying for me.

 I didn’t try for it in Poe, but I get the feeling that if there are a few mountains someone might be able to go from Zhou to Greek’s and get crossbows before turn 50, which would just be insane.

While my favorite cultures historically are in the expansionist affinity, and my favorite culture in-game is probably Nubia (I just love their playstyle), the affinity I spend the most time thinking about, by far, is scientist.

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Owlexander wrote:

Mine has to be scientist.

I’m someone who loves doing crazy things in games and while I personally don’t fully resonate with the cultures of this affinity, as much as I do with some others.  The ability to tech one era ahead just allows for so many interesting strategies.

I remember doing a Babylon into Rome game where as Babylon, I bee-lined the tech for Rome’s UU, and only a few turns after becoming Rome, I had a super powerful unit.  This was just so satisfying for me.

 I didn’t try for it in Poe, but I get the feeling that if there are a few mountains someone might be able to go from Zhou to Greek’s and get crossbows before turn 50, which would just be insane.

While my favorite cultures historically are in the expansionist affinity, and my favorite culture in-game is probably Nubia (I just love their playstyle), the affinity I spend the most time thinking about, by far, is scientist.

I really enjoyed this question.

Scientist affinity is unchanged from Lucy to Poe from my knowledge, the difference would be in stuff like tech cost.

As a choice that I predict will be uncommon, Aesthete.

While I like som individual cultures with other affinities better (Greeks being my top pick) I like the Aesthetes. The passive ability to get very cheap independent people inegration is very good in the late-early game (classical/medieval era) as it lets you focus less on expansion, and the "wildcard" feel of aesthete cultues is pretty cool. Based on the Poe build, I did feel that some Aesthetes did better at other affinities than cultures from their era; just look at the Zhou compared to Babylon for example.

I would probably go Merchant as my second pick, as they let you do a completely different strategy compared to other cultures with a Money based economy. That strategy was a bit weak on Poe though.

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roger212 wrote:

Builder, because the buyout is nerfed to the ground, having farmers is useless because building the district is much better, aesthete has an underwhelming active and expansionist civs are situational in most cases except for the achamenid persians, maybe. I like scientist too but builder just seemed better in this build with all the stability problems that builder would let you ignore as long as you were pumping 1 building every 2 turns.

Agarian and builder affinities allow a strategy in which you ignore stability and use the passive parts of the affinites to keep your cities at high stability. Here you can read about the strategy.

Oh, thank you, I didn't know you could do that with agrarian since the black AI kept picking them before me lol. I will look into it!