Recent content by JonoLith

So, I was playing Civ5 as Arabia. I made a declaration of friendship with Egypt and Ottoman. I made a defense pact with both as well. Then Egypt attacked the Ottomans. This automatically made me go to war with Egypt. This, in turn, made everyone put up the diplomatic negative marker of "You went...

You're on the mark with this one. The Civ franchise is about long term planning, and diminishing a unit's usefulness due to poorly laid out upgrades is something that can only be considered horrible game design. Pikemen are supposed to get murdered by longswordsmen. That's the point...

The reason you play on Marathon difficulty is to get the most out of every single decision you make. Planning ahead is extraordinarily important on Marathon. If you have completed iron working, and your enemies have not even started researching it, then it's not just a quick "Oops, better...

Arabia: 14 +1 France: 6 -2 Japan: 12 Persia: 7 Siam:12 Songhai: 12

I truly do not want this to deteriorate into a religious argument of any kind, but I do need to correct you here. During the time this specific conversation was going on (The conversation about whether or not the earth or the sun was the center of the universe) there was no separation...

I stopped reading here. Hammurabi is very well known in secular culture because of the Code of Hammurabi. He was also a fairly capable military leader, controlling the Southern Euphrates river, near the modern day Persian Gulf, in his lifetime. In terms of building, he oversaw expansion of...

Then why'd you start your whole point talking about realism v. gameplay if you had every intention of belittling those who used realism to further their own arguments?

Another one of these.... ugh... When are people going to figure this out. Hitler is not renowned as being a Great Leader of the German People. (Great in this case meaning either Wonderful or Terrible.) He is renowned for attempting to set up one of the largest and most terrible genocides in...

For me, it all boils down to a complete disconnect between the way the AI treats you in diplomacy, to how he acts in the game. For Example: I'm the Iroquois. On my continent is the French, Babylonians, Ottomans, and Germans. The moment I get my Mohawk warriors I start plowing into the...

This is entirely your personal opinion, has not been experienced by the entire player base, and therefore is a point that cannot be argued with. It's as if you have said "I like the color pink." Good for you. Gold exists. Use it to buy those buildings. You don't need a stables in every...

Hey Mad Hab, I enjoyed listening your story. It reminds me alot of the exact same thing I did the first time I tried to go cultural. I just remade the game and won that way! Hope that helps! Have fun!

Knee jerk reaction thread. Civ 4 still exists. You're welcome to keep playing it.

I think it's quite prudent to exclude the argument that it's simply "Better then previous combat." It's too much of a fallback position that doesn't really mean anything. You might as well say "I hate the civ 4 combat, but I love the color pink." That statement holds as much weight to the...

Well, here's my game. Win in 1969 (Aw yeah.) Ultimately this was a pretty disappointing game for me. I really think I ended up putting far too much weight on the Cristo Redentor (Or however that's spelled) and wasted alot of great people trying to power up to it. Major things I did learn...

Tried my first playthrough today and abandoned it after I realized it wasn't going to fly. Here's a few thoughts. 1) If you're not near any cultural City States you might as well just restart the game. I don't think you can get a cultural victory with any haste if you don't have those city...