Recent content by Blackknight1239

Production is almost always the better priority, at least early. Getting stuff faster is good. You might have more of a choice later, when you have much more pop to play with.

Uh, yeah, always. I mean, growth is key to this game at all stages. Getting pop early means more access to food, hammers, beakers and gold because you get to work more tiles. The problem with patronage is that it isn't going to add anything until you get the chance to complete a quest; in my...

Did you use any concert tours? What about having the World Religion? Getting the religious tenants that give all your religion builds and Hermitage tourism is usually pretty useful early on.

What era? Against what kind of Civs? Are you fighting a runaway, or attacking a weak opponent? Civs next to you, or is there travel? In a warmongering situation, or is this a surprise attack?

What's an "average" war?

But with your science lagging so hard, you're not going to have a chance to hit Globalization before someone decides your lack of modern units is pretense for invasion, or something just hits space before you.

Was Peacekeeping and the UN not good enough for you?

I must be terrible at this game since I have no idea what you guys are doing to get so far ahead so fast! So, I'm playing on Emperor, and my biggest problem is the transition from early to mid game. After I hit the Renaissance era, it seems I just have so much to do I can't get everything...

But it doesn't, really. Even if the most vital resource in civ is more military power, then Honor does nothing to give it to you. The Opener and three of the policy options only reward you for doing military things, not actually making things stronger militarily. You'll want to go heavy...

Seems pretty anti-fun. This mechanic works with tech because you aren't losing anything; the AI gets a small advantage in their tech, and while that sucks, it doesn't hurt you anymore than it would if that Civ got it the regular way. However, Great Works represent a large investment of resources...

I too would love to imagine the world as a prefect meritocracy, where only the proper people get ahead in life, and those people who aren't well suited for a position. However, evidence would suggest that white men who hold power tend to make sure that other white men are allowed these...

Are you really suggesting that there is an agenda when showing that the human race was lead by people of both genders? Seriously?

I find the "they aren't famous, so they shouldn't get be a Civ" to be an incredible weak argument, all things considered. The West has crazy problems with Euro-centrism, and way to much love for the "Great Man" style of history. In game like Civ, we should be trying to show off not only the...

Yeah, the points are all kinds of messed up. They seem to focus primarily on number of cities and population, leaving everything else to basically rot. Luckily, they don't actually mean anything.

I'm surprised the Celts are considered so bad. Their UA let's you get to a pantheon super quick, which is really useful in the higher difficulties, or sometimes needed, to get to a religion. While I think Pictish Warriors are particularly interesting, the Ceilidh Hall is all kinds of good when...