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Do you build swordsman?

Archon_Wing — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:56:06 GMT

I find that in most of my games, I never build this thing. Maybe it's because I'll never self tech iron working, but by the time you can get swords they will most likely have axes, and that puts their City attack bonuses to waste. You'd have to support them with catapults, but if you do that, then the catapults are the one doing the work and I don't see a need to finish off weakened units with massive city attack bonuses. Maybe it saves catapults?

Or axes are just too good in this game?

The Total Map Conversion Project

GreatLordofPie — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:57:00 GMT

This is the official Total Map Conversion Project (TMCP) thread!
The goal of the TMCP is to convert every unique and non-mod reliant map available for download for Civ 4 (although it would be cool if those were included as well). This thread isn't to document maps for downloading, as there is already one for that (though it's been inactive for a while), but rather, for WorldBuilders to post the maps they wish to convert to C2C, and to discuss their map's specs when they're done.

Rules of TMCP:
1. Post in this thread saying what map you're converting (though it's probably better to post the map file somewhere else, but that's your call)
2. Maps that have more than one copy of themselves are the exception to the project's main goal; only the most current version of all maps should be converted, for simplicity's sake.
3. Don't forget to credit the creator
4. Have Fun :crazyeye:

List of already converted maps:
"Giant Earth Map" converted by Acularius, original by Genghis_Kai
"Earth 18 Civs" from the unmodded game, converted by GreatLordofPie, original by Rhye
"Standard Earth Pack (Beta)", converted by RidetheSpiral, original by ???
"Spain to Caspian" (edited GEM), converted by Hanny, original by Genghis_Kai
"Atlantica", converted by GreatLordofPie, original by el_hidalgo (this map is actually the "Europa Ultima" and "Eastern North America",maps combined, both by el_hidalgo, so both apply to rule 2)

If I forgot anyone, I'm sorry.
Happy WorldBuilding!

Will the Chu-Ko-Nu be affected by G&K

YouMust — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:56:53 GMT

In Civ V as China I would always conquer cities with the Chu-Ko-Nu. Will it's effectiveness decrease with the combat changes in G&K?

Immortal/Deity advantage?

Kokkomo — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:20:49 GMT

So I have been moving up to immortal, and on a continents map I noticed that Egypt had a scout at my base by turn 4 on Marathon speed. Upon further scouting of Thebes by turn 29 Ramses had 2 warriors, a spearman, a scout, and 2 workers. I am assuming this is normal, but how does someone overcome odds like those?

btw he DOWs me by turn 50something 1 turn away from me completing GL

I tried holding him off but decided to just give the city away to the only other civ on the continent (Ottomans) on the turn before Ramses took my Shanghai...

should I just be turtling better until my tech overtakes theirs.. (pretty tough considering he has 4 cities by turn 62)

Raids Arrest Suspected Cyberrasists

Mr. Dictator — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:05:37 GMT

Le Beeb

Quote:

Five men and a 15-year-old youth have been arrested in East Renfrewshire and Glasgow after anti-Semitic remarks were posted on social network site Facebook.

Almost 50 police officers raided seven addresses after complaints from members of the Jewish community in Giffnock.

It followed a number of offensive posts on a page entitled: "Welcome to Israel, only kidding you're in Giffnock."

The six people arrested were charged with a breach of the peace with religious and racial aggravations.

I can sort of understand the arrests here, if the comments were bad enough, sort of. I can't really wrap my head around 50 pigs raiding homes over this.

Then again, maybe it was one of those "we'll raid and arrest you to show you how easily we could raid and arrest you over this" debacles.

[C3C] Very special civilization 3mod, whole world only this one!!!

xiaoxiaoa — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:02:37 GMT

This is what I do on the Chinese and British War

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Multiplayer Patch

ferretbacon — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:37:49 GMT

I remember hearing about a patch that included, among other things, multiplayer unit animations. Is this patch scheduled to coincide with the release of G&K?

'The Internet' World Project. This feels like such a noobish question...

lindsay40k — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:15:48 GMT

...but every wiki entry I find gives minimal information on this.

It's a World Wonder? So, once someone builds it, everyone just 'downloads' all the techs known by at least two other Civs? Do they need Computers tech to access the Internet, or do isolated island tribes who haven't got Steam Engine yet suddenly get an uplink?

Soren Johnson joins Zynga to work on a secret project

The_J — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:55:11 GMT

An article on GamesIndustry.biz reveals that Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civilization 3 and 4, has left Electronic Arts, where he worked on Spore and Dragon Age before, to join Zynga to work on a secret project.
Zynga is the company behind many Facebook games like Farmville, and while Soren Johnsons project seems to be a social game as well, it should, like he says himself, still be interesting for the civilization audience:

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Originally Posted by Soren Johnson

I expect Civ fans will absolutely be interested in my current project at Zynga; in fact, I anticipate them to be among the first wave of players to try out the game.

For the whole article please see this link, and for the related thread at CivFanatics please see here.
Thanks to Vael for bringing this topic to our attention :).

Image of Soren Johnson by boingboing.net. The image is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
The Zynga image is from broowaha.com, as well under the Creative Commons License.

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xiaoxiaoa — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:46:04 GMT

This is wrong

Late Game Food Shortages

rsherm — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:24:05 GMT

Does anyone else experience this? I often find that as I have maxed out my cities (all railroads, farmlands, mines; all city improvements complete) I frequently run into food shortages and eventually will have a population loss (it takes a long time b/c of granaries, but by the end of the game it happens often enough). Is this a bug? Or is there a solution for this?

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I looked for a similar title in the Civ2 threads but didn't see one. Thanks!

City Nationality

fdrpi — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:57 GMT

How does this work exactly?

G-Minor XXIX

Denniz — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:46:05 GMT

[img=right]http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/170/hofgauntlet.jpg[/img]While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings will be counted towards the Gauntlet.

(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!

Settings:

Victory Condition: Diplomacy (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
Difficulty: King
Map Size: Small
Map Type: Any
Speed: Epic
Leader: Any
Opponents: Any
Version: SV8 (1.0.1.511)
Date: 16th May to 1st June 2012

The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

HOF V Update

Denniz — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:42:13 GMT

The Civilization V Hall of Fame has been updated. 63 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to FeiLing for the highest Firaxis score of the update with a Settler, Time, Quick, Large, Inland Sea, France (Napoleon) game for 30087 points.

ColinTH was the most active player during this update, submitting 12 games.

Only 4 players were brave enough to take on Deity this update

dribnairb - 1934 AD, Turn 237, 2125 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Archipelago, France (Napoleon)
dribnairb - 1930 AD, Turn 235, 1271 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Small, Tiny Islands, Egypt (Ramesses II)
dribnairb - 1904 AD, Turn 222, 2023 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Archipelago, Siam (Ramkhamhaeng)
dribnairb - 1728 AD, Turn 759, 4530 points, Deity, Science, Marathon, Standard, Fractal, Rome (Augustus Caesar)
keg - 1987 AD, Turn 267, 1538 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Tiny Islands, China (Wu Zetian)
numaru7 - 1736 AD, Turn 378, 2406 points, Deity, Domination, Epic, Large, Tiny Islands, England (Elizabeth)
Tabarnak - 445 AD, Turn 203, 1285 points, Deity, Domination, Epic, Large, Tiny Islands, England (Elizabeth)

Gauntlet Results:
G-Minor XXVIII - Domination, Immortal, Tiny, Inland Sea, Marathon, Germany (Bismark)
1st vexing - 3070 BC T-62
2nd The Pilgrim - 2860 BC T-76
3rd pontias - 2695 BC T-87

** New Gauntlets Starting **
G-Minor XXIX - Diplomacy, King, Small, Any, Epic, Any

>> Civ V HOF
>> Discussion Thread

HOF V Update Discussion

Denniz — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:19:32 GMT

dribnairb - 1934 AD, Turn 237, 2125 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Archipelago, France (Napoleon)
dribnairb - 1930 AD, Turn 235, 1271 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Small, Tiny Islands, Egypt (Ramesses II)
dribnairb - 1904 AD, Turn 222, 2023 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Archipelago, Siam (Ramkhamhaeng)
dribnairb - 1728 AD, Turn 759, 4530 points, Deity, Science, Marathon, Standard, Fractal, Rome (Augustus Caesar)
keg - 1987 AD, Turn 267, 1538 points, Deity, Culture, Quick, Duel, Tiny Islands, China (Wu Zetian)
numaru7 - 1736 AD, Turn 378, 2406 points, Deity, Domination, Epic, Large, Tiny Islands, England (Elizabeth)
Tabarnak - 445 AD, Turn 203, 1285 points, Deity, Domination, Epic, Large, Tiny Islands, England (Elizabeth)