Recent content by aday

The best solution is to play a game that the developers actually finished, not some hack job like Civ 5. This post does not add to the discussion, as such please refrain from such postings.

The part that doesn't make sense is that you're gaining reserve troops / reinforcements from fighting and gaining combat experience. "Oh, I wish we had some fresh men to send to the front lines. Maybe if we can just survive this next battle, 6000 fully-trained soldiers will appear out of thin...

Absolutely! In my opinion, one of the biggest things missing in CiV is the loss of revolutions. I think you should be able to spend a certain amount of time in anarchy in order to "reallocate" some of your SP's, the exact amount depending on how many you are changing. There could even be some...

I don't know why anyone likes that "wait 10-20 turns after launching before victory" feature to begin with. In addition to being totally boring, it doesn't make any sense. What, is your spaceship going to turn around and go surrender itself to your conquerers if your capital gets burned down...

Don't think of it as people being unhappy that there are more cities. Think of it as it being more difficult to keep all these outlying cities under your rule. It was no small feat back in antiquity! Supplying them with pretties and noms keeps them from rebelling.

Like a lot of values in CiV (e.g. social policy costs), there are some hidden "true" values that are rounded up/down (no one's really sure) to a multiple of 5. The modification probably gets applied to the "true" values, and the rouding can cause some significant divergences from the stated 25%...

None of the above! You pretty much listed all of the GOOD changes they made! I would vote that they bring back diplomacy. I know, I know, it's still there, kinda. But there's no longer any such thing as a lasting friendship/alliance, or even a dire nemesis. It's just a temporary thing...

Wow, he was 100% on target with that review! Sums up my opinion of the game perfectly.

If you mouse over the top part of the UI where it shows you your happiness level, it will tell you which luxuries you have at least one of. The only way to see the quantity of those luxuries you have is to see them in the diplomacy screen of a leader who lacks them.

I have built roads inside a rival civilization's territory before. On my first game, before I realized there were no foreign trade routes, I built a road to two of my opponents' borders and then finished it for them one tile inside their territory. I never bothered to check whether I was...

25 here, started with Civ1. I really really like a lot of the things they've changed/added in this one. I just feel like it's a sloppy release, beset by lots of bugs the should have been caught in testing, and by the UI being all-around awful. But I still vote it as a "like". I can't...

This could be a bug, or it could just be that I'm a dummy and can't figure things out... Anyway, I can't seem to edit the amount of gold that I am giving or receiving in trade negotiations. I usually start my deals by putting something on the table and asking what they'll give for it. They...

But units with different owners don't stack, even if one is a combat unit and one is a worker.

You're right that Commando is all but useless due to the high-level prerequisites. I usually play with a modded promotion tree so that building a Commando and/or March army is feasible, by unlocking Blitz/March with Combat 2 and Commando with Combat 3. Or something like that. Many would...

Roleplaying games, eh? Sounds awesome. I've just started playing FFH2, but I can already tell that playing against the AI is going to get boring. (No Education or Code of Laws on turn 250, hmm...) And I also can't stand playing against powergamer humans who play for maximum efficiency with...