Recent content by NZV

This game just feels like another Empire: Total War. Fantastic reviews, and really fun for the first few hours. Then you realize that the AI is trash and the other new features are pretty dull and shallow. I'm pretty bored of Civ5. Guess it's back to Civ4 and Medieval 2. What a shame.

Making wonders underwater just makes them all the more impressive. Imagine all of the difficulties involved in building the pyramids, and now imagine it being done in the sea on a whale tile. I think underwater wonders should give an extra culture bonus, as they are far more wonderful.

They rush bought hundreds of kittens, and your forces could not bring themselves to fire upon a city full of kittens.

The AI is really, really lacking in its ability to siege cities in particular. It took me awhile to notice this since they very rarely attack any of my cities, but for some reason the AI likes to just pace its units around while being shot by defenses. It won't even attack with its archers most...

The game also states that stealth bombers can only land on cities, not aircraft carriers. But they land on carriers just fine. Not sure which of the two is how it's supposed to be.

I don't think the game shows you units that city-states have garrisoned in their capital. I've definitely given them units that I would never see until they were attacked.

Don't forget that city-states can bring political issues as well. If someone is attacking a city state that you need for growth and you sunk thousands of gold into, you are going to need to defend it. Or more likely, allow them to take it and then liberate it, but either way you go to war. Which...

Wheat doesn't really need a boost. The reason being that you put a farm on wheat to harvest it unlike all other resources, which is much, much better than what you put on other stuff once you upgrade them through techs.

On the flip side, I'm in a game right now where I've been harassing the other civs so much with my navy that I'm in the modern era and they've all just barely hit the renaissance. So I've been rolling around the world declaring war on each other civ one at a time, destroying all of their units...

No way! Whales, wheat, and fish are some of the best workable tiles. With the buildings to make them better, sea resource tiles are absolutely fantastic. And wheat is the only resource you can build farms on (which are way better than crap like plantations or pastures). No desert, now, or...

Accepting pacts of cooperation seems to do little but make civs more likely to constantly bug me for ridiculous amounts of money. And I assume declining pisses them off (maybe?). No, I am not going to give you 2,000+ gold just because you asked nicely, especially when you'd never give me...

If naval units did more damage to other naval units, it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass. As it is, it sometimes takes my destroyers/battleships multiple turns to destroy some horribly outdated ship like a barbarian trireme. Meaning that trireme gets a free kill on any embarked unit. Gets even...

Lol, youtube LPs. Cute.

They definitely do make more cities. My first game ever, I did a continents game and completely skipped naval techs until the late industrial age. When I finally got around to checking out the other continent, Japan had done the same thing that I did. That being, he took over his entire giant...

Wha? I got all of these in like my second game. On Prince. If I didn't get them then, i sure as hell would have on my next one, which was a One City Challenge.