Recent content by pi-r8

I know I'm coming to this very late, but I finally got around to playing this scenario and there IS a way to win with Mao. It's very hard and requires some luck, but it can be done. Here's what I did: At the start just sit there. Don't try to fight or run away. The AI will usually not attack...

I agree that in the right circumstances, AGG can be very powerful. Early in the game, 60 hammers for a barracks is kind of a lot, so saving 30 hammers there is a nice boost. It's basically enough to give you one extra axeman per city. And then those double-promoted axes can really dominate any...

dang, those civ4 devs thought of everything!

Thanks for the code dive! I have to admit, that looks pretty robust. Still I'm not quite ready to give up... how much negative gold would we need to trigger an integer underflow?

Huh! Interesting. I wonder if there are any potential exploits with this? Like, if you stay in negative gold, can you avoid strike?

probably not gonna try this since I'm not playing civ right now. But from previous experience I do think this sounds like a very tough challenge. The AI just gets massive bonuses in the late game on deity, and not being able to launch offensive wars really limits your options. Even if you're...

To me, civ4 most perfectly captures that "exponential" feeling of 4X games. When you play well, your production, science, and military all surges faster and faster, so every turn is massively more powerful than the turn before. When you play badly, things really fall off the rails. And there's...

Normally I'd make a comment like "it depends on settings, it depends on the map, it depends on whether your want reliability or a high score, blah blah blah..." But then I saw he picked Churchill as his overall best leader and uh... no. That's wrong. just... no. I don't care who you pick but not...

out of curiosity, how would you play this if you couldn't build the GLH? It seems like such a massively powerful wonder for water-heavy maps that nothing else even comes close.

Turn 100, demigod, some good some bad

question for anyone suggesting moving- what are you hoping to find that would be better than SIP? we start with fishing, and there's a lot of forests there, and probably a resource to NE. Looks like it's mostly plains to the south, and maybe a tundra to SW. If you move down and find.... what...

@floydmcw I finished it

Played some more last night. Weird map indeed.

heh, i played a little and popped metal casting from a hut. that should make things easier.