So I won a game with Endless Mod and the last message said: 

You have survived one of the four filters. To try others, choose a different game style in the next game.

What's a different game style?

edit: added spoilers warning in title

Yeah I don't remember exactly which choices I made during the first events, but I went with "ancient gods" most of the time.

Let's try to list what choices conducted to each filter.

• First event I chose: "Ancestors"
• Next event I chose: "Who are they?

My cultures went like this:

• Neolithic: knowledge star
• Ancient: Harappans (agrarian)
• Classical: Celts (agrarian)
• Medieval: Franks (aesthete)
• Early Modern: Mughals (builder)
• Industrial: French (science)
• Contemporary: Swedes (science)

"The Gods Origin" civic: Religiously (+3 Science on Holy Sites)

"Data of the Endless" technology completed with many cities having build the Project "Ultra" infrastructure.

I got the "Grey Goo" filter (alien nanobots virus) that put the cities the virus reached into quarantine, reducing every income by 30% (all my cities were touched).

The only way to survive was building "cloth manufactories" based on Endless technology on each city.

edit: ending event screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/1rCvWYJ.jpg

Tigranes wrote:

Finally finished the official mod. Might I say I am not impressed? Space victory gets disabled by default, so you just grind for 400 turns until mod thinks you have experienced all not-so-cool narrative events. All in a name of what? Obtaining some ailien technology to overcome one of the 4 "Filters"... I had more fun with WW2 scenario from Civ2!

I absolutely loved the scenario maybe the timing was off on yours because in my case I survived the great filter before any of the other win conditions would have triggered normally, the pacing felt great. I think it is so cool how the storyline is basically the Vodyani lore. If I recall correctly there's even some empire projects that you can do to mitigate the adverse effects of the great filters that have the names of the Vodyani arks.

Well I don't know how you get another filter... 

I made different choices for every events and used only african tribes dlc cultures and I still got the "gray goo".

events choices:

1. creators

2. how to contact them?

3. warn (1st game: support)

4. historical (1st game: materialistic)

5. ignore (1st game: creating a rrf)

gods origin: scientifically

I even built the special wonder that I forgot in my first game and allied every npc instead of making war.

I tried a first time a weird game in which I got the « grey goo », as most players seem to do. Nothing from my run differs massively from what has already been detailled in previous posts. I tried to get some era stars for the lunar event, not knowing if it's possible with the mod enabled while at the same time not building a single makers quarters. Maybe not the best setup to discover the mod but I had lowered the difficulty quite a lot (nation) to be sure to encounter no trouble and played a surprisingly easy but full of fight game.

I tried then a second game with the idea in mind that the « data of the endless » technology is optional and I shoud try to forgo it completely to get a different filter. To be sure to be left alone, I played on the first level of difficulty.
I started with « monsters » , then « who are they », choose « grant» and then « science » when I got the Vaulters and got a holy site destroyed, I choose « scientifically » for the battle in the sky, got an « impact », went also with « scientifically » for the civic, chose « support » for the tech event, refused to build any project ultra, still took the sponsor in case I'd need it later, at that point, I completed all research not getting any event. I finally decided to unlock the « data of the endless » technology and got the Virtuals event so late I had no Wonder to build anymore and quite some margin for the city cap, so I went « philosophical » and finally did not get « grey goo » but the pollution event. I was myself quite well in negative but other players seem to have decided for me. I got to build useless coreleecher plants, which are not the worst building of the game and got hit by gravity troubles which you can not really tame. All that leads to the « Industrial great filter » and the construction of a space station. Funnily enough, I got messages with the same two dudes while sending stuff in space earlier, before discovering the data of the endless and guess it's part of the necessary infrastruture to win with this filter and produce the great ark.

As I'm pretty sure my small summary will be bland and boring, I add a link to a more visual experience, as I thought of taking some screenshots during my very boring game. https://imgur.com/a/CaxHbVe

roger212 wrote:

I think it depends on the affinity in your last era. Scientific you get Grey Goo, Agrarian and merchant you get the Economic Crisis one, and apparently Builder gives you the Gravitational Anomalies one.

It seems to be the key!

Sweden -> Scientific -> Grey Goo

China -> Merchant -> Global Instability (Economic Crisis)

Australians -> Builder -> A new rift appeared (Gravitational Anomalies)

Nigerians -> Agrarian -> Grey Goo

Expansionist -> ???

Aesthete -> ???

Militarist -> NONE

irw wrote:

roger212 wrote:

I think it depends on the affinity in your last era. Scientific you get Grey Goo, Agrarian and merchant you get the Economic Crisis one, and apparently Builder gives you the Gravitational Anomalies one.

It seems to be the key!

Sweden -> Scientific -> Grey Goo

China -> Merchant -> Global Instability (Economic Crisis)

Australians -> Builder -> A new rift appeared (Gravitational Anomalies)

Nigerians -> Agrarian -> Grey Goo

Expansionist -> ???

Aesthete -> ???

Militarist -> NONE

I know its been 7 months and i Dont know if anybody cares anymore but I think i might of gotten the secret filter, i went with Japanese (scientists but i had over 2000 production in every city and over 200 Food in every city with over 100k Money) but for the virtuals i went philosophy and i got something were i got a cache of their tech and implement it into my cities, then i got -75% of Everything and -2 Unit Speed, and the Virtuals turned into a virus and multiple multi city emp charges to stop them and i ended up getting the soul of one of the virtuals as the end of game prize for beating the virtual great filter

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