Your Favorite Secret Society?

[wcbarney]

I like the Voidsingers best. I really can't live without the "Old God Obelisk," and I find it really useful to park Cultists on all the spaceports around the world.

[wcbarney]

What? Nobody has a favorite Secret Society? Nobody else plays with the Secret Societies mode?

[ROCKETMAN JOE]

Definitely Owls of Minerva, I like the extra policy cards, but the other bonuses are eh

[Evrach]

Originally posted by wcbarney:

What? Nobody has a favorite Secret Society? Nobody else plays with the Secret Societies mode?

Tried it once or twice. For the achievements. Very unbalanced. Not fun at all. Never play with it since. Owls of Minerva seems clearly OP.

[Blue]

Originally posted by wcbarney:

What? Nobody has a favorite Secret Society? Nobody else plays with the Secret Societies mode?

Out of the two that I've tried so far, I enjoyed the Voidsingers more. I still haven't tried the Owls of Minerva yet though.

[colostmy4]

I'm big on voidsingers myself. To be honest they seem broken when going for a culture win.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by colostmy4:

I'm big on voidsingers myself. To be honest they seem broken when going for a culture win.

I don't understand why you say Voidsingers are broken when going for a culture win. With the Voidsingers you get Old God Obelisks which give you an extra slot for nearly every type of Great Works. Also it makes it easier to move Great Works around.

[Rhapsody]

Hermetic Order is my least favorite one, does that count?

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Hermetic Order is my least favorite one, does that count?

Sure! I originally started this thread a few days ago just to get a discussion going about Secret Societies. I may start other discussion threads, sometime, about favorite heroes and favorite wonders, and how to stop the AI in the space race.

[ayrtep]

Hermetic Order is my favourite, unfortunately it is so much weaker than the other choices that I have to precommit before the game starts.

I tend to get fed up of using owls as they seem to always be the best choice when you have a free choice. Although if you are going for a domination victory with an early conquest sanguine pact can be just as good.

If you want to avoid owls try playing without city states.

[gdshore]

personally I prefer the Voidsingers, i have stopped using them though because invariably the AI civ. closest to me gets the blasted Vampires.

[Maya-Neko]

Definitely Owls of Minerva. They're just universally strong, since every playstyle benefits from money, given that you can simply skip building time in many cases. And having 2 trade routes per coastal city is just broken in the late game.

The void singers are somewhat ok for a religeous or cultural civs, but it definitely takes away some flexibility regarding victory types compared to the owls.

Hermetic Order can be fun to play with, but sadly it's heavily dependant on lay lines. Though having the university generate engineer and merchant points is definitely the strongest unique building from the societes mode. Though i personally doesn't take them just for this single building, if i play somewhat serious.

And so far i've never felt like playing the sanguine pact. Might do that at some point for the memes in a stream some day, but i don't see, where this one is useful in any way, unless you're constantly waging war (and actually active ones and not a static war, where you just wait half the time do build stuff)

[colostmy4]

I've always liked the void singers. but then I'm the kind of person who likes to use spies to foment loyalty disruption in nearby civilizations and help boost it with the cultist while getting relics in the process.

[Luvac Zantor]

When I play, I play with Random Leaders. So it just depends on what victory I'm going for. Alot of the leaders are Warlike, so Sanguine Pact and those Vampires are nice.

[Cahlum]

Owls of Minerva is the best option 99% of the time, its just broken

[CafeSpy]

My favorite is Hermetic order...when it works.