Recent content by James T

This is my new favorite thread. I can't imagine my 5 year old playing civ!

If a citizen remains unassigned, you will lose 1 turn of productivity... Calculation of yield between turns goes Food, Pop, The rest of tile yields. So, you do not want your newly generated citizen working a high-food, low-other tile in the turn he spawns because he will produce no food for...

I have no experience with Nights, so not sure I can help you. However, in my experience, here is a very general hint/principle: know what you want to do and plan accordingly. Short-, medium-, and long-term goals should be set, and these should cohesively tie to your grand strategy. Maximize...

Tested my faulty memory against your list, hobbs: Byblos is actually an Egyptian city Taipei is Chinese Couldn't find Kiev...

Samarqand is one of the Mongolian cities in the game, and I've seen something like Biblios (can't remember the spelling I saw, or the civ, but i think it was Greece), and I think I've seen Taipei as a Siamese city, but not certain. Also vaguely remember seeing Kiev in a large Russian empire...

Note: I have not yet played G&K, my comments are based on Vanilla. As far as I have noticed, all other players are always above me in the general score. Score is largely meaningless, especially in the early game. From what I could see, the score depends entirely (or almost) on how many cities...

Fair. But are Camel Archers that much more better than Siam's Elephants?

+1. Never lost an immortal game, I've beaten maps of all sizes and won with all the VCs, I'm currently about half-way through beating with all civs. I've won a handful of Deity games, lost many many more, but for me it just gets too tedious with insane turn times, etc. slogging through the...

I agree... Siam's/India's elephants don't require horses, why do the camel archers?

Also the game has built-in economies for larger gifts. 500 gold nets you more than 250 twice will net you, and 1000 gold nets you more than 500 twice.

Try to spend as little as possible in terms of hammers and/or gold on workers. Steal 1 from a City State, rescue them from barbs, steal them during war, get one from liberty, etc. Some times you will have to bite the bullet and buy one, but I can't remember the last time I built one. Hammers...

I think war could be a lot more interesting, defensive strategy could be complex and satisfying, and defensive/peaceful/turtle approaches could be more competitive options if a few tweaks were made: 1. Allow units the movement benefits of roads even in enemy territory. This may seem...

You've got me stumped on this one. I think I've read that melee can use promotion after attacking, and ranged cannot, but that clearly doesn't apply here. My initial thought while reading your post was ZOC somehow affected your ability to promote, but you disproved that as well. I have...

My first gold expenditure is to ally a cultural CS, probably about 75% of the time (settler or military the other 25% of the time depending on opportunity and/or need). Early to mid-game, cultural is the only CS-type I will spend money on. Mid- to late-game, I prioritize resources or strategic...

I'm still curious about my second set of items above, in the OP. Does anyone have any facts or guidelines around hammer, research, and growth costs in advanced era starts?