Recent content by Drill IV

Even as long as the AI always votes for itself, shortening the list to the two candidates with the most votes would not always be logical. I had one game where I was the one with the second most votes. I used them to make the one with the lowest score chair of the congress, because he was the...

Well, that resembles the role of the Habsburgs realistically, which does not sound as bad. Austria arguably was the foremost single power in the world for about 140 years after the reformation, and they achieved that status precisely by repeated very profitable marriage. At that time, most...

Perhaps a confused German person was involved in the design process. In German, the same word stands for "enlightenment" and "reconnaissance" :-) EDIT: Could have been worse, come to think of it. The same term also means "sex education" :-)

In my opinion, this is the point exactly. It is sufficient if the game uses the terms established by the community, and since it *is* a game, terminology may well deviate from word usage in real life. Beakers, for instance, have no real equivalent except perhaps "scientist-time", and what are...

By that thinking, it should be beneficial to throw in all the existing civs for free. Why do they not do that? Because they know it would put some people off.

Indeed the marketing model for Spain in this case is a psychologically dangerous one. On the one hand, the publisher potentially attracts many more buyers for the expansion, offering something "for free". On the other hand, *everyone* wants to have a "free" advantage very much (opposed to...

In Civ5Buildings.xml, a field "FreeBuildingThisCity" is defined. I do not know where to look up how it is evaluated, but that would yield the answer to that question. Though I've not seen any double buildings in my games yesterday. I'd guess your first library would lose its maintenance...

That's how it is described in the patch notes. Wonders do not require maintenance. A wall has no maintenance anyway, but you also get one automatically when building the Great Wall. Patch notes: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=427485, includes a list of the newly free buildings...

So that's how that looks :-)

It's downloading :-) EDIT: 124MB

http://store.steampowered.com/news/5739/

I would count China among 1). http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-38wsWDlg6gksgnaXzkrOZQ0tGA

Medical Lab now stacks with Aqueduct. Still says Hospital in the description. Hospital now gives a whopping 5 food. Just played a game up until 2010 AD or so on Prince and did not get a single DoF offer. Funny.

I found that CiV is a good game to play while cleaning my apartment. When one activates "do not wait on end of turn", all turns without pop-ups go by smoothly. Pop-Ups make a sound which lures me back to the computer :) It is only a pain in the behind when there's a war, because I sometimes...

Wouldn't that be 2 :c5happy:, since it is Spain we are talking about? So 22 :c5happy:? I do not think that Spain is overpowered, anyway. They get one or two natural wonders in their territory if they do not greatly expand, and the money is one-time. Probably the 500 once or twice a game and...