Recent content by anti_strunt

That's another big thing, but it's so fundamental to how Civ operates it tends to just slip me by... Excepting some very specific slingshots, everything is so fundamentally linear. The capital of most Civilisations was founded and has been in continuous operation as a centre of government since...

This, times a hundred. Like the final, big battle scene from a historical epic... The general gives the order to "send in the artillery"... A hundred barrels appear from behind the crest of a hill... The guns reach the top and... Keep rolling, faster and faster until they smash into the enemy...

I assume you mean "there are always going to be more poor people than not"... Here's an alternative view, not necessarily my own: From the perspective of the majority taking money from the most productive citizens makes perfect economic sense. Demands from these most productive citizens (or...

And this statistic, on its own, means what, exactly? Some people are more productive than others? Is there some major benefit to keeping the least economically productive citizens employed? The mathematics are perfectly simple: given social security earnings even in the case of unemployment, the...

Usually the case in practice, but not theoretically necessarily. I wasn't trying to make a point beyond what I wrote: judging the success of a corporation is easy, judging the success of a government is hard. Comparisons on management between the two are easily made and often popular, but they...

Decent economists can (and frequently do) poke plenty of holes in the incentive structure of a stock corporation, but for the most part the market doesn't seem to be in a rush to embrace any alternatives... The government is obviously a organisation, but to what end, exactly? A corporation is...

"Pure capitalism" will never work because there is always a profit incentive to disrupting the market in one's own favour!

I'm terrible at Python, so I'll need to ask: is there a way to make it so that units do not take any damage if the plot has a road/railroad or is within the civilisation's own cultural borders?

Heh, for all we know the Battleship might even be a pre-dreadnought... Although we actually have both Stealth Destroyers and Missile Cruisers, so I don't see a reason to extend the courtesy of modern missile armament to the plain old Destroyer, usually the very first steel ship to see use (which...

Just for the sake of balance then. I hardly think anyone would agree that a Destroyer is "correctly" valued at 3/4th the combat value of a full Battleship (30 vs 40), but for gameplay balance it works fairly well... EDIT: and superior manoeuvrability at least could certainly translate into...

Babylon was famous for science, mathematics and astronomy, but they are not famous for their widespread empire. Babylon was always above all the city of Babylon with environs and vassals, which would translate to a very tall Civilization strategy. Their UA, on the other hand, directly favours a...

All the more reason to switch the two types around so the Attack Submarine is available earlier and, if anything, move the Missile Submarine a few techs further up the Tech Tree beyond the Manhattan Project; the introduction of ballistic missile submarine was one of the key strategic...

I don't know, given the released crop of DLC civilizations they appear to be working under the assumption that players really love archipelago maps and can't get enough of the exciting naval game... Regards with UAs etc. they'll just make up whatever they think will best fit peoples'...

Not specifically tied to global warming, but what about empirical observations of rare natural phenomena, like supernovae? That's hardly repeatable at will...

So, we have the Attack Submarine, which very clearly uses a Cold War ballistic missile submarine for its model, complete with several rows of hatches for a vertical missile launch system. It requires Rocketry... yet it cannot carry any missiles. It also requires Combustion, yet can only run on...