Recent content by Arachnofiend

You sacrifice EVERYTHING to go Piety though. Tradition and Liberty both have huge upfront bonuses - nothing in Piety is as strong as Collective Rule or Monarchy. The absolute best thing about the tree is boosted Holy Sites, and you only get that at the very end! Tradition can go wide without...

Science has generally outperformed the expectations of doomsday theorists. We should be sleeping in piles on the stairs, all transportation reserved for the wealthiest of the wealthy, and eating people in green squares by now but science just keeps getting better and outrunning society's needs...

No, the Gems is definitely the best settling location. You get everything you want out of it. Unfortunately the rest of the island is total trash so you need to take your settler off coast to find a place for your next city. You should have gotten a Trireme out ASAP to start exploring...

I generally prefer gift cards because the things I want are usually fairy expensive and I can't expect everyone in my family to drop 50-60 bucks on me. Many times mothers appreciate the sentiment as much if not more than the gift itself so it's certainly not a good idea here but I wouldn't write...

Considering the fact that every game mechanic ever favors going tall over going wide I really don't think we need to give tall players another advantage. The problem with Piety is that you have to go wide. Taking Collective Rule before going into Piety is the best way to play the tree right...

That was actually declared a bug and fixed in the last patch. Kind of sad really, I would have kept it as an "unintended gameplay feature".

Do you read? Get her a book you liked that she could potentially enjoy. I know my mom always appreciates rec's.

Persona Persona Persona The gameplay in Innocent Sin pales in comparison to that present in 4 but the fact that Lisa Silverman and Eikichi Mishina exist more than makes up for it. Having plenty of fun catching up on the games I was either too young or too poor to play at the time, heheh.

I don't exactly know what you mean by "level of play", but if you're talking about how many people are playing it then Civ V has been in the top 10 (usually the top 5) most played games on Steam since its release so I don't think they're really hurting on that front

This mass murderer lives in conditions equal to or better than anyone in my apartment complex. Norway I respect you for your stability and all but this is kind of ridiculous.

America expands early and builds good infrastructure because the UU doesn't come until later. If they're still around when Minutemen come online they can and probably will wipe a continent.

Whoa there friend I think you need to slow down Completely ignoring infrastructure is definitely a bad thing to do. I don't think it would even be possible to do something like this unless you're playing the Huns and get very lucky. The similar but better advise is to play games where you...

The Ikanda promotions carry over when you upgrade to a gunpowder unit (you just can't hard build said gunpowder unit and get the bonuses). The Zulu also get 25% faster promotions on all units. I wouldn't say that that puts them over the Minutemen these are the freaking Minutemen but it's not...

Post-AoE civs are to be judged by their effect on global politics. America had very little influence other than expanding into areas that white people considered open territory and making Mexico look very foolish. The Monroe Doctrine was primarily backed by the threat of the British navy because...

Not a bug. The great person from building the wonder is increasing the cost, which bumps back your natural GP.