Age of Monuments

[Riftwalker]

This age feels really hard to get to, it requires you to have 3 regions and to build a pretty beefy thing in each(you need 3 civil monuments which are the tier 2 influence generator, a pretty low priority construction i think for most cities being made this early). this means getting a crap ton of culture and production pretty early if you want to ensure it happening.

this is my game after my first victory and all the odd numbered ages were easy to get into, but the AI is pushing into the age of kings before i even have my 3rd region locked in(i'm just now getting enough culture to support it).

Especially since this is also in the same time as the age of plague.

I don't see the AI ever pushing for this on their own either, since getting a 3rd region in general this early seems like a big penalty over being a boon.

[IKerensky]

This was to be expected, special ages having the same number of discoveries required make them impossible top get if you are not cruising so far ahead it doesn't matter what age you are in anyway.

[Riftwalker]

it would be doable if it was 2 civic monuments, but 3 is playing the entire game specifically to do this up to this point.

like compared to age of heroes, which is just have explorers find some stuff

Like you have to go HARD into culture and basically do no goverment reforms.

Kinda lame because I also until i got the age of iron was looking to just stay as 2 regions

[Ricochet]

I never got age of monuments to appear on my game. Are ages popping up random or is there a specific thing you need to do? My second playthrough (still in age IV) is stone>bronze>heroes>kings (no branching ages). My age of king has age of conquest (golden frame), intolerabce (crisis), explorer (silver frame), and renaissance.

[LumberJak]

I spent a chunk of last night, and most of today trying to get in to this age with no luck. I've managed to get pretty damned close, being just a couple of turns behind one of the AI going to age of kings.
I got angry at my most recent attempt where I was on pace, then got a crisis that I couldn't afford to pay off that destroyed all 3 monuments the turn before I could start to advance to the next age.

I agree that it is a bit too hard to get to, 2 monuments likely would strike a nicer balance, you still have to make a 2nd region pretty much as soon as you can for that, which I don't believe to be efficient gameplay for anything other than getting to the age of monuments.

[LumberJak]

Originally posted by Ricochet:

I never got age of monuments to appear on my game. Are ages popping up random or is there a specific thing you need to do? My second playthrough (still in age IV) is stone>bronze>heroes>kings (no branching ages). My age of king has age of conquest (golden frame), intolerabce (crisis), explorer (silver frame), and renaissance.

You can't do 2 variant ages in a row, so you didn't get the option to go to the Age of Monuments (Era 4 variant) because you had the Age of Heroes (Era 3 variant).

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by LumberJak:

Originally posted by Ricochet:

I never got age of monuments to appear on my game. Are ages popping up random or is there a specific thing you need to do? My second playthrough (still in age IV) is stone>bronze>heroes>kings (no branching ages). My age of king has age of conquest (golden frame), intolerabce (crisis), explorer (silver frame), and renaissance.

You can't do 2 variant ages in a row, so you didn't get the option to go to the Age of Monuments (Era 4 variant) because you had the Age of Heroes (Era 3 variant).

I'm doing my 2nd full run now. Yep age of monuments appeared after an AI out teched me to kings.

[taomastercu]

I got Monuments from the AI on Grandmaster. I was so hyped since my play style focuses on a single large region. There is a particular Super Monument that is *insane* for Influence generation.

[xyzapip]

I still feel some of the ages should not be shared. Age of monuments is such an age. Also age pestilence and blood should just be auto assigned to neighboring nations

[Riftwalker]

Originally posted by Ricochet:

I never got age of monuments to appear on my game. Are ages popping up random or is there a specific thing you need to do? My second playthrough (still in age IV) is stone>bronze>heroes>kings (no branching ages). My age of king has age of conquest (golden frame), intolerabce (crisis), explorer (silver frame), and renaissance.

Variant ages cannot follow each other, it's a varient of age of kings.

[Verenti]

Originally posted by Riftwalker:

Originally posted by Ricochet:

I never got age of monuments to appear on my game. Are ages popping up random or is there a specific thing you need to do? My second playthrough (still in age IV) is stone>bronze>heroes>kings (no branching ages). My age of king has age of conquest (golden frame), intolerabce (crisis), explorer (silver frame), and renaissance.

Variant ages cannot follow each other, it's a varient of age of kings.

Which is kinda insane when you think about it, history should increasingly diverge after a variant age, not converge back into an immutable historical path.