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Even if you are playing on Warlord difficulty (not Noble) raging barbs means that you will have to build a ton of military and likely fall behind in Tech. In the Warlords expansion, this can work pretty well cause you can train your troops up to 10/17 experience and this counts toward your Great Leader points. But in Vanilla it is largely a pain in the arse cause of the importance of building culture, etc.

Permanent alliances could be interesting, but only if there was only one of the 6 AI that was your ally. Actually, this would produce an interesting tradeoff in which having the ally might alleviate the pressure from the barbs a bit.

I have not ever noticed the Great General bar increase from fighting barbarians.

Thanks for clarifying permanent alliances. I'd say that is a cool option then since all it does is allow permanent alliances.

I'd say, unless other factors will mitigate the raging barbs, it could be a thrill killer. For example playing on Warlord instead of Noble diff, making sure about a good start location, specifying a civ that is aggressive versus mostly all non-aggressive AI, etc.

ADDIT: Mongoose just gave me access to the DGame area, and I read through all the past polls. Sounds like quite a sweet game ya'll been putting together! Warlords! YEAH!

I don't fully understand the philosophy of a DGame, but if it were me setting up a game, if I were to have Raging Barbs I'd take it down one notch in difficulty, e.g., to Warlord's Difficulty. That I think produces a pretty fun dynamic, though the late game can be pretty easy if you've done well early on.