--Dogpilers click here-- (PB7 Player Communication Thread)

[Meiz]

I think the rule is quite obvious. This is always war, no in-game trading or gifting, even though it wouldn't be done through diplomacy screen.

[plako]

No trading and gifting is still valid including missionaries or leaving workers to be captured on purpose. Information sharing is ok. Everyone can benefit from the information, even if the ones sharing probably more.

[sunrise089]

Current votes:

Interpret rule to mean worker/religion swaps and similar banned:

*Germany
*Egypt
*Khmer
*Netherlands

Interpret rule to mean only in-game diplo screen trades/gifts banned:

*China

[Azza]

Put me in the worker/religion trades banned group.

[Nakor]

Same goes for us. This is always WAR!

[Lord Parkin]

I thought we'd already agreed somewhere that Worker/religion gifts were out? In any event, that's my vote. This is supposed to be Always War, after all.

[AutomatedTeller]

wrong thread

[spacetyrantxenu]

Yeah, seems like that would be out of bounds to orchestrate an exchange. I think if we want a religion we'll have to take a city from someone who has it. Mechanics question, does religion autospread in an AW game?

[T-hawk]

Mechanics question, does religion autospread in an AW game?

A few players have asked this in thieir own threads, so here's the answer for all.

It can happen but only under a very unlikely set of conditions. The owner of an atheist city must have defogged a trade path up to the border of the civ owning the holy city, but NOT MADE CONTACT. In this state, the atheist city can catch an autospread because there is a trade path. (Trade path means road/river/water connection, not just defogging.) Once you make contact, there is no longer a valid trade path to the holy city because part of the route is hostile territory. So no autospread once you've made contact.

So for all practical purposes, there's no religion autospread in Always War. If you want religion, found it or conquer it.

[sunrise089]

Current votes:

Interpret rule to mean worker/religion swaps and similar banned:

*Germany
*Egypt
*Khmer
*Netherlands
*Mongolia
*Rome
*Ethiopia
*Native Americans

Interpret rule to mean only in-game diplo screen trades/gifts banned:

*China

So that's half of the civs alive in the game already. As such I think the appropriate thing to do is consider these worker/religion swaps and similar things to be banned.