Recent content by lauer

Nice :goodjob: You basically describe what I do. However, I am usually to busy (or lazy) to change tile improvements later in my games. So farms remain farms. I know, it is not really optimal, however, I just can't be bothered to micromange my cities. As I said: lazy :blush:

Why the bashing? :hmm: The OP clearly stated that having a good time (= not wasting time in failed attempts) is key for him. I can perfectly understand that (having no time at all to play a game like CIV during a work week). Moreover, I couldn't care less if someone cheats in SP to...

A bit OT for this thread and definitly not to bash your strategy (the game obviously allows it), but isn't multiple civic changing within one turn (and using benefits from the "intermediate" civic) an exploit? Sounds a bit strange for a turn-based strategy game...

Well, the growth penalty for building workers (and settlers) might make you postpone building them. Also, your starting tech might make workers less desirable early on. Plus, there is your early game strategy. For example, if you go all out early in founding as many religions as...

No joke, I think. I believe the AI is coded quite deterministically. This means that some strategy module of the AI has decided that in this war it has to land troops on your continent and some other module computes the "ideal" (according to some hardcoded (?) parameters) landing location. Since...

My vote is for Pericles. :thumbsup:

Yep and there was a thread somewhere that you can "swing" the votes in your favor by simply nuking (with a serious lot of nukes obviously) your opponents to reduce their population. Quite bizarre way of winning IMHO.

Ah ... I've never dared to test this. Will do next time. Thanks!

Partly yay. I've had a nice - if somewhat frustrating - highlight when some Barbarian Archer attacked a border town of mine with only one warrior as defender (my mistake). Boom ... Barbarian town. This town was crucial for me, since I used it to block Isabella from entering what I considered...

Maybe it's just me, but while liking an intelligent AI as an opponent, I absolutely hate having an opponent enjoying an easier life than me. :nono: Therefore I am reluctant to move past Noble right now. A pity, really.

That's how I found out about this: trying to get the AI to sweeten the deal ... nothing appropriate available ... EXIT and bingo no -1 for "you have refused to ..."

LOL! :goodjob: I'd like to watch...

I personally consider this to be an exploit and I'm ashamed :blush: to admit that I use it all the time. I've done this in past CIV incarnations too ... Allthough fixing it will make my games harder, it should in my opinion be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Hm, I could image that this leader would be kind of hard to sell here in Germany. Whenever games are released that carry even only the symbology of this period, usually only a censored version is allowed to be sold. :nono: And BTW, I disagree with the Philosophical part. Looking at what...

Very true. :goodjob: That's why I suggested to read the worker chop related threads. They contain a plethora of very good information, which cannot be easily summarized in 2-3 sentences. The decision, to chop or not to chop, has to be made taking into account your style of play, the early...