Recent content by Henry_VI

That was Mohammad himself. It was Jerusalem originally, later converted to Mecca (interestingly, before the muslims had even conquered that city). There's some controversy as to the political motivations behind it. Sorry I should have provided a link: Civ V stock image scavenger hunt...

Suleiman's father may have been to Jerusalem; but to my knowledge he hasn't. The region was under Ottoman control at the time. The Dome of the Rock doesn't make sense for Suleiman; that's for sure. Here's my conjecture as to why the designers made it so: They probably Googled for a stock image...

The only reason why the AI doesn't always totally dominate as Greece, is that it doesn't have much of an 'I'.

What to expect 'quantitatively' is pretty straightforward, and helpfully tabulated at the following link: difficulties thread on civfanatics 'Qualitatively', though, I have to say that the game becomes a lot less enjoyable on higher difficulty settings. That's because 'higher difficulty', in...

I second that. I don't know about Emperor+, but on King, playing as Greece becomes too ridiculous to be enjoyable. You end up swimming in resources of all sorts, and in *total* control of the UN.

Suleiman at the Blue Mosque doesn't make sense, since it was built after his time. It's probably an approximation of the 'Kubbealti' where the Imperial Council (though not, I believe the Emperor himself) met, in Topkapi Palace.

Maybe 'the hyperspace jump' can be added as a future tech? Or 'the positronic brain'?

If I'm not mistaken, that sentence comes from a Monty Python sketch; possibly about Hungarian tourists. It's been a long time since I last saw my Flying Circus, so I might well be mistaken. :lol: (edit: or, could it have been a Lucasarts adventure? Monkey Island, perhaps...) (edit: The linked...

About Suleiman, way back on page 3: I concur; though I have to add, that even for modern Turkish usage it's horribly un-idiomatic. (edit: Having read the rest of the thread, I realize that this is a problem with several other leaders.) It's almost as though they used Google translate for the...

Not to mention the endpoint of that 'progress' being the reflection of a certain worldview----the stock exchange brings happiness to the masses; future technologies are introduced with a quote from 'that guy'; everything can be made into a commodity; faith points buy great scientists, and so on...

Thanks! I was a member way back before Civ III was released; I took part in the speculations, etc. I sort of returned to rabid fandom with the release of BNW ('vanilla' Civ V was a huge disappointment for me) so I thought I might join again. I'm not sure whether this is correct (not that I...

I've registered just to say that I'd love to see the Trojans. Pretty neat scenario possibility too...