Recent content by lolo79

Once you tweak the 18 civ map to take 34 civs (improvize: I put the portuguese in Brazil, for example) there is ample space for civs to grow and interact. And no civs are overwhelmingly advantaged. For example, before the Aztecs in North America and the Chinese in East Asia got an overwhelming...

Too bad strategyonly's answer makes no sense and doesn't speak to me at all. I've opened the Worldbuilder, and can't add any civs.

Hi guys, it's a simple question, I haven't found a clear answer on forums yet: - I am using BTS. - I want to play on the 18-civ map as it is on BTS. I don't want a bigger map or a different map because I feel game is too long, civs too big, etc. - I want to up the number of civs to 24. On...

In fact, completely wrong. There are many maps with 24 or 34 civs. Obviously there is a way; what is it? Anyone? this is a really interesting question, no? Hello? Guys? Girls? Hello?

Hi there, I want to keep the original Earth 18 civs map that comes with BTS, and ADD MORE CIVS. I want to keep the same map, though, as no other map I find seems reasonably balanced. I want to add: Khmer Korean Babylonians or Sumerians Native Americans Maya Ottoman Zulus Ethiopians...

Playing a huge empire in 18 civ (Russia, if you must know, expanded to RL proportions, thank you very much) I wanted to stick to free market but I see that State Porperty provides equal maintenance costs for each city + extra food from workshops + no corporations + !! + 15% PRODUCTION IN EVERY...

And this time, it's for real. I'm top of the game, it's 1540 and I'm over halfway across Siberia. I keep churning armies, so I have no short supply of troops. Siberia is defended by a strong China (1st or 2nd after me on scoreboard) but my Greek vassals are lending a good hand so I'm taking...

I just wasted an entire weekend trying to recreate RL Russia while combing military and development strategies. I end up feeling like by rhllthe renaissance that I'm wasting my time. I'm not quite cultural, not quite a military powerhouse. I need to rethink strategy. I think another option may...

The oracle technique works GREAT. Get confucianism, spread it and it offsets the expansion costs. Failed at my game, though; can't seem to balance city-building and army creation yet; a lot of Russian land comes of a pretty weak as soon as you try to do everything at the same time (as you could...

Ok, basically I'm not happy. Sure in terms of sheer size I recreated Russia but as a soulless backwater! I didn't even build the kremlin. There has to be a way to expand russia historically and make it a real cultural and military powerhouse. Resolutions: - get a religion. - build...

The thing with the land, is you have to develop it with cottages and keep going East. Then you build units on a rolling basis: the cities farther East built units to keep pushing, the Western cities develop to maintain the whole infrastructure. I had to accept being backward (fighting riflemen...

OK, well, I did it. From sea to shining sea. (Egypt won on culture, though, but I was dog!-should've seen it coming) What fun we had. This is a pretty solipsistic victory though since nobody on the forum seems to care!:king:

Well, in case anyone gets interested: I was among the top 3 in the world until the 800s then started dipping as everyone else built wonders. However, I took advantage of the time to build up an army with which I took all of Persia's Siberian possessions 1100. Quite a few cities along a...

I just played a game as Elizabeth in Earth 18civ(prince). I was very advanced (armor, etc. but no air force or nukes) and Monty had taken over all of America (vassalized Inca and US-he had a HUGE empire from Canada to Panama) but was fooling around with grenadiers and riflemen. I had a nice...

Well, I've started a new game. I started Moscow 1S, 1E of the starting pos and was excited to see that wheat pay off right away. It's -2600, I have 3 cities: Moscow + 1 city where Minsk would usually + 1 city where St-Petersburg would normally be (with access to precious copper and blocking the...