I ' ve found that constant war is fine as long as you ' re hitting your objectives . Just finished a 300 turn deity huge island plate conquest victory where there was maybe 50 turns most of it early game where I wasn ' t at war with someone . Also another tip you didn ' t mention if you manage to get a civ down to the point where they feel imminent defeat , they will usually offer to trade off the majority of their gold resources for peace . Usually every few turns they will offer you a trade based on the current war conditions , and if you ' re close to capturing any cities . If you ' re obviously winning a war , don ' t accept peace until you get to milk them for all they ' ve got and don ' t return their capital if you ' re trying to go for dom victory obviously . On the other hand , if you ' re stalemated and probably can ' t finish the war , try to surround a city and get a slightly favorable trade agreement for peace .