Recent content by LlamaCat

sorry I guess my save is from a few turns later - I had not met certain leaders earlier and that message showed up. if you first left click different leaderheads on the diplomacy screen, then mouseover each one, you will see different popup information and that's where it appears. I think it's...

here's a save like what DMOC is talking about... I presume it's happening in any game save though. I noticed it right away, kind of distressing when these patches miss big things like this. I think the game is the victim of its own complexity.

you have this set on Epic speed - not sure how anything can be done in only 50 turns - it will take half that time just to get a worker built. unless one just gets lucky with the voting rounds.

how do you propose to win if you can't capture holy cities? are you saying the team has to raze them? might want to clarify that, because in this mod that victory condition means you either need to capture the city or raze. and to do that you need to go to war so I'm not sure how you would go...

you seem a little unsure whether the AIs are running mercantilism or have open borders agreements with you... but all of these questions can easily be answered by simply looking at the diplomatic advisor screens. all the information is there for this reason, to keep you informed of the world...

keep in mind you need to have researched Music in order to build culture in any city

Serfdom ... end of discussion, move on to next thread. Hereditary Rule: that is a whole other debate. I'm of two minds about it - yes it can be really useful in some situations but no matter how or when you use it, it really is a very soft fix for happiness. One step outside the city, and...

you get a percentage of their land and population counting toward domination victory. or, if you don't have enough land/pop for that type of win, if you make everyone else your vassal, you get a conquest victory, so it's one step closer to that. but before victory, you get the benefit of...

the same reason you would not want your city to grow as any other time... to grow higher than the happiness/health limits for that city and cause wasted citizens or starvation. it's the whole reason the game limits your city expansion until you have enough resources/other benefits to expand...

also check the religion status screen - if you made contact with the civ, it will show the religion's founding city underneath the religion I think. how do you get spy points against a specific civ?? ummm... I think you need to read up on how Beyond the Sword works -check the manual. Or...

well the bottom line unfortunately is that you are using the biggest computer exploit in this game, and that is worker stealing. it's something that has still not been addressed in any patches. ultimately you are just negating one of the AI bonuses on this level by taking their extra workers, so...

how about putting it with agriculture? it would be a second wonder on the first line of techs, and supposedly they might have had to do with worshipping of gods to have better crops, etc. as for the benefits, maybe something like +1 food on all farms (or just irrigated farms?) and +2 great...

I think if you managed to convert all of their cities, like in the example you give, that option in the diplomacy screen should not be the reason that appears. I would go back and check that carefully to make sure the religion successfully exists in all of their cities before you ask them in the...

every time I've done it, I get something like 5000+ points. usually it's some weird number like 5,250 points. I usually play normal size maps and normal speed so I'm not sure what all the factors in play are here.

that screenshot showing your victory conditions is from 1810. I see from the log that Hamm capitulated in 1812, but in the interim you reached the land and population threshold first, so it was a domination. But yes otherwise if you make everyone a vassal it's a conquest. here is your...