Your favorite virtues?

[SeraphLance]

One thing I've noticed is that, as big of a deal as social policies were in Civ 5, virtues in this game seem to be even stronger. Go down industry and you'll be running hundreds of energy per turn by turn 200, but you can easily lag behind in science and health. Go down knowledge and you get massive buffs to science growth and improvements to the multiple-city penalties, but gold can be hard to come by. Prosperity gives large growth boosts, and some obscene boosts to health (I once got 40 health from a single virtue in that tree).

It's way too early to discuss optimal things here, but what are your favorite virtues?

[Dawid]

IMO industry is the best. Health is easily to buff with decision from missions. Science, well, just build more labs and colonies.

[Nocturnalx36]

Currently Prosperity is my #1, the health bonuses are great, and towards the bottom there is a +1 production and a +1 health from all basic resources...So in other words, fruit, algae, stuff like that. Both are insanely good, my capital in a marathon game im playing had little to no hills for production, I got the +1 production perk and jumped up from 14 production to 31...

However I think that it totally depends on your goals, if you want to develop towards a late game combat orientation, then go for the military tree, It takes longer for you to get going, but mid - late game you'll be rolf stomping any AI you come across if they are evenly matched.

I haven't touched much on industry yet, money isnt much of a problem when your spies are siphoning 13k or so energy regularly. The production would be nice, but I prefer city growth over initial production gains, I'd rather be able to work all my tiles.

Knowledge is also awesome, however again, I tend to go down knowledge as a second choice after im done with prosperity..

[GamerWolfOps]

industry and knowledge why you get the best free 10+ energy bounes :p