Recent content by eireksten

My approach is to wait for the core source to be released :) But then I'm planning on overhauling the AI on a more fundamental level...

I've moved on to Civ5 now, but until some more patches are released I have to say I still prefer Civ4 BtS (where I was/am at Emperor level). I do think Civ5 does have potential, though, and that it can come up to, or surpass, the quality of Civ4 BtS in time.

Or the poll shows that Civ5 simply isn't hard enough.

It is likely to be very easy once they release the source.

It could be that since farms by default gives 1 food, they chose to leave it out. It could that if they put this in the xml, you would get 1 extra food from wheat farms, even if you have civil service / fertilizer. Or they just thought it was unnecessary, given that it is the default behaviour...

Windows + D is a much better combination for leaving the game window than Alt+Tab. Windows + D doesn't try (and fail, thus causing problems) showing you a list of windows to choose from. It just takes you to the desktop. Much easier to process for the OS, not having to fight against the...

In my first deity game, Washington rushed med with archers and spearmen on turn 40. I thought that was a pretty good decision of him.

I build farms to get a couple of huge production cities, which needs to work a lot of tiles.. If you don't grow your cities, you'll have a hard time avoiding long production times.

Unless I'm much mistaken, the "better one" from Civ 4 was the city maintenance system? You haven't noticed how this maps to the global happiness of Civ 5? Change how cities affect happiness, and you'll get a similar system for dealing with ICS. I'm not saying I think that's the best solution...

You don't see a way to nerf infinite city sprawl?? That could be done in a million different ways, and isn't even close to being the worst problem to fix, the way I see it. The AI needs a bit of work, however, and I'm guessing quite a few other parts of the game will need tweaking to make it fit...

No, we likely won't. There are simply too many plain bugs for them to fix before they can really get going on fixing gameplay specifics (like crashes and the ever-/never-ending trade bugs). Even though these things can be fixed relatively easy, they'll still take some time to sort out (you don't...

I didn't see anything new in that "report" either. And none of it can't be fixed relatively easy.

The way I've understood pacts of secrecy is that only you and the civ you enter them with are aware of the pact. Entering one will improve your relations with the trading partner. Then, if you trade (or similar) with the civ you are pacting against, relations with your pact partner sours. Of...

I can picture the strategy where I sell all my buildings and disband all units in order to bribe city states to vote for my diplomatic victory... Which is a stupid mechanic, btw. I was hoping for a more interesting way of dealing with city states than bribing. And also a more interesting...

No, we won't. There has already been a couple of minor patches released, and there wasn't much to download on them.