Recent content by jdog5000

Playing the Viking scenario and have noticed the French AI embarking their special knight unit a lot. I was suspicious that the AI was trying to line up attacks with its embarked knights on my ships. This save is the smoking gun: Three French knights off the coast of Poitiers on the west coast...

In the attached save if you go to drop a nuke on some Greek districts or units, depending on where you select it will ask if you really mean to declare war on Greece even though you're already at war with them. My suspicion is that it's having units in neutral territory in the blast radius that...

Perhaps this is intentional, but it doesn't feel right to me. I have two roman forts in the southern part of my territory that are inside the borders, near Cumae and Eretria. The eureka for Ballistics has not triggered. If needed to check trigger conditions, there are also two roman forts just...

A chariot from a militaristic city state shows the red ! that's supposed to be for barb scouts. It has never visit one of my cities either.

See attached save, I can't city strike from Kandy as there's no little red circle. I've rebuilt Ancient Walls after capturing the former city state.

You can capture other holy cities, but even then you don't really take control of that religion - you only get to choose beliefs for the one you found.

A fully promoted spy can do a very good job of stopping AI spies, but if you don't have one it can be very hard to stop AI spies. If the AI has been stealing from you successfully for a while then all their spies are level III, and a level I spy just won't catch them very often at all. The...

Technically it should be "a unique" because unique is pronounced yoo-nique. It's whether the pronunciation starts with a consonant or vowel at determines a vs an, not the way it's spelled. More examples: http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheUseOfAnAndA/jwln/post.htm#sc52081 \grammartroll

My biggest hopes are: - Two-tier classical with a couple more techs - Delayed riflemen - Total redesign from Industrial on The late game tech tree is weak IMO, the beelines are much longer there than earlier which makes pacing of arrival of new units off. It just isn't constructed the same...

Health in CivIV was a way of limiting growth in a city until certain infrastructure buildings were built (and happiness was a second, stronger version of this). City growth limits are fairly foundational to overall pacing, not something to be added for the fun or wow element ... so my bet is...

I'm hoping that a significant effort went/is going in to the tactical AI and how the AI runs operations. It would make sense to do that if they're re-working combat, and weak combat AI was one of the most common complaints (but it always is ...). They also mentioned hitpoints are out of 100...

Mayans in 2012! And Boudica has to speak Gaelic or something, given how far they've gone with other civs in tracking down historical languages when possible.

I also hope the combat changes in the XP clarify the role of siege and ranged units. There was a machine gun in one of the screenshots, right? So maybe there will be ranged units later in the game now, and artillery can focus on cities. So much we don't know.

Well hopefully whatever they hopefully release will be at least 3 times bigger & better than what they've released previously. Hope springs eternal ;)

Very interesting news! Think about it some more ... Firaxis would have been working on this XCOM remake for a while seeing as it's so different from their other titles. Minimum two years, so it would have been in development in parallel with Civ5. They must have done CivRev in parallel...