Dexters - To my understanding, mousing over will show you the trade route, but will not show you how many spaces it will advance in the next turn.
It's really quite ridiculous how unwieldy trade ships are.
In one instance I was facing off against two Greek galleasses off my southern coast. How...
Governments do protect cargo ships.
Maybe today it's not so much a big deal, but you should be able to compare today to peacetime in Civ-terms, some barbarian pirates are hardly worth holding up a patrolling navy over.
Now think back to the British empire and the various trading companies...
This is not an instance of my inability, but an instance of bad game design.
They were not declaring war on me, I was declaring war on them.
I had the strongest navy in the game. Towards the end I **** you not I was sitting on ~30 battle ships ~15 submarines ~10 cruisers and ~4 great admirals...
1. Economy is VERY much based on trade. I ended up winning that Venice game by Diplomatic victory (ironic...I killed every other civ except the Iroquois, who I began nuking. Me and the 4 city states left that I didnt Merchant-of-Venice voted me for the "peaceful, diplomatic, victor")...
War is not a viable option any longer.There is literally no incentive for a player to go for war mongering, especially in a water-dominated map.
AI spam ships and manage ships better than a human player can, such that the instant a war is declared, you can expect all of your trade routes to...
I'm at war with England and I see one of her cargo ships heading towards Ethiopia.
I have 2 privateers, a caravel, and a frigate surrounding the cargo ship but the game won't give me any options to attack the cargo ship.
How do I raid her trade route?
I see a lot of talk in these threads about wanting Romania or Australia or the Pueblo in the game, but I really don't see much talk about some unspoken-of African cultures.
I feel like of the list of civs that make the Civ5 list, Morocco is really out of place.
Why is the culture of Benin...
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