Recent content by _megafone_

Lol, talk about a cooked map. Can you post a save with the same start but normal speed? My PC can't handle late-game load times on Epic...

What is a good civ for someone may be a bad civ for others, if you're considering situational play. This is not what the tier list is about, the way I understood it. For example: when you talk about Venice's problems with warmongers, for example, it makes no sense to me; I usually play very...

Highest pop enemy city in the game, except for the tech leader's cap, which will most often have a counterspy. If there's a huge pop city that is NOT a cap, that's better, since it most often won't have neither counterspies, nor constabulary.

I don't know about other Deity players but I usually don't have work a lot of "blank" tiles (tiles with no resources or freshwater) until the early-lategame, when I already have Fertilizer or am close to teching it; between your resource tiles, freshwater tiles, and specialists, you only need to...

If you're giving extra consideration for Chateaus, maybe reconsider Polynesia as well? On a regular Pangaea start, if you calculate that a 4-city empire, with just 4 contiguous Moai tiles in each, that's a flat 40cpt (2-3-3-2) yield, if I remember it correctly. Sounds like a lot to me! Culture...

Yeah, the reduced XP cost for promotions makes your units come out with an extra one right off the bat if you've built up to Military Academy. Not a special promotion or anything.

Turn 291 SV.

Turn 308 SV.

Will try it out after I finish the Zulu map that was posted some days ago. Thanks for the save, OP!

My only ever Deity win with Shaka was an OCC SV at a deity challenge posted months ago... this'll be my second, and I also don't think I'll be building many Impis =P

Make enough musicians to fill Broadway (this means you only need to fill the Musician Guild once you hit Modern Era), then delay them until after Airports. After that just go ahead and pop them as tourism bombs whenever they spawn, because it doesn't matter. Oh, and don't neglect Faith even...

kb27787's explanation sums how Tourism works. Just gotta add that since Deity AIs absolutely hate taking Freedom, more often than not you can assume you'll always have the flat -34% penalty and will always use the diplomats to offset most of it (considering you're playing a tall/small empire...

I only dug three artifacts the entire game, the two that popped inside my borders and one that was close to Cahokia. I never bother with them, unless I'm playing France (if I'm in a position where I won't have enough Artists/Wonders I don't bother going CV). I always beeline Radio (Sci Theory...

Too many warmongers make those games too easy. Turn 292 CV here.

Don't ever open with Piety; get three SPs in either Tradition or Liberty to kickstart your empire, then go Piety. You need to hit somewhere around 250 faith by turn 70 to consistently found a religion on Deity (sometimes you can do it later, but that's a good benchmark). If you go straight...