Recent content by saraid

I've won a cultural victory with only a single city as Egypt in an Earth game. I got into exactly one war, during which I took and razed a city (I was going for having only one city) and got into a slugfest with a city-state briefly. For the rest of the game, I had made friends with the dominant...

It really annoys me that I keep bankrupting the other civs by selling my luxuries. They keep begging me to take their strategic resources when I'm not interested in more gold-sucking military units.

My teammate got this bug with the negative in the game we played tonight. He's running at around -20 horses right now.

Yeah, I refuse to pick +range and +attack for my archers/longbowmen/crossbowmen because of this. Knowing they'll turn into a "melee" (read: guns in face) unit, I know I'm either expecting them to die or choosing a useless promotion. This, basically. Archers have historically been used as a...

Some data: Prince difficulty, Huge Map, 90% approval, 10 happiness, 390000 population according to demographics screen, 17 population in cities. I don't see anything obvious jumping out as "oh yeah, I'm 90% of that".

It uses (1) the one you have the most in, (2) the one you picked most recently. So if you have 4 Piety, and then you pick a Commerce SP, you're still The Pious. There's an odd seeming-bug where I picked Free Religion, then finished Tradition branch, and then finished Freedom branch: I went...

Out of curiosity, I took note of each of the honorifics that come when you pick social policies. Tradition: Lord X of Y Liberty: (Guessing Consul -- PROBABLE) Honor: X the Great of Y Piety: X the Pious of Y Patronage: X the Enlightened of Y Commerce: Doge X of Y Rationalism: (Guessing Wise --...

I recently went for a cultural victory that involved me hitting Renaissance before anyone else, but I had never actually gotten Horseback Riding. *shrugs* Actually, I hit Industrial first, too, but that was an accident. :p I didn't mean to get Biology. But I don't honestly think that's what...

Autocracy is also out because the Freedom tree is better. Your options for a 5th are Liberty, Honor, Order, and Commerce. I think Order is the best since you get a culture boost from the unhappiness drop, some extra defensive strength, and +5 production. I actually did a 1-city Egypt CV the...

I get the feeling that what people really need is a Lapdog status for AIs who have given up and are willing to help you win instead.

"wargame" is the wrong term. It's a competitive game and there's no allied victory.

I gotta say, your RL diplomacy skills are in evidence here. It's like you would be able to work with this system intuitively.

People are heavily invested in their cities, emotionally. :p They have names, and you spent time doing all that careful infrastructure. And there are the pretty graphics. What are tile improvements? 8 turns of some random worker. Psh. Plus, you can repair it all in 20 turns.

@Rittmeyer, I can see a problem where Darius was being stupid and didn't do the obvious thing to secure a Domination victory. My gut says that there's a bug in the AI decision algorithms related to continents: some kind of assumption that a civ should focus on their own continent. But...

When I tried out cultural victory, I had a lot of cities (didn't realize it increased cost of SPs), and was making 700 CPT or so despite that. Granted, I was also spamming great artist landmarks, but still. I have yet to try out a larger map or a harder difficulty (kind of feeling like a...