Things I like:
Evolution and customization of religion
City state interaction*
Espionage*
* Insofar as I understand them, anyway. Espionage in particular is not the most transparent thing in the game and I guess I'll just have to play more to get a better feel for it. There are a lot times when I want to know why something is happening the way it is and the only response the game has is "well how does it feel to want."
Things I don't like:
Nonsensical bull****. I don't even know how to make heads or tails of the AI opinion of the player. Caesar has declared war on me no fewer than 5 times, but after every single war he goes right back to friendly with the only opinion modifier being "we were at war but they don't seem to hold a grudge." And then he goes straight from friendly to war and back again and we repeat the whole process again and again. Meanwhile, everyone else bounces around between friendly and guarded and denouncing me with little seeming to change in the process. Some of them I understand because I might have sort of taken their capital from them so it makes sense that they hate me forever, but most of them just happen out of the blue. I go to see why Siam suddenly wants to denounce me after we just exchanged BFF bracelets and the only opinion modifier is that he is currently denouncing me. What the hell.
It's also kind of dumb how you or the AI can just march a great prophet through someone's territory and completely flip the religion in every city. It's not permanent and it bounces back, but being to flip my holy city to 100% heresy with the push of a button is a tad silly. Got an achievement for, though!
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