Recent content by scheines

Do you make forges in most cities? Why or why not? Latest discussion I could find was here, and it's quite old. So, I thought I'd ask. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/forge-every-city.265405/. I assumed the answer would match those given for most buildings (don't make most buildings)...

Well in this case I do grab marble, but it’s pretty out of the way. It takes maybe too long to get online; after replaying, going right for CS gets me ready for war a bit sooner. Interesting point about the copper... I found that the barb axes were giving me all I could deal with. What exactly...

I ended up looking back at your prior post, a few notes: 5 cities at T88 on monarch is definitely behind schedule. I will let others weigh in to confirm but why is the colossus any good here? The land isn’t stellar but 2:food:3:commerce: coast tiles (assuming you built a lighthouse) for 3...

@prettification

The AI is not quick to yield techs in my experience. Even if you’re beating them badly, it can take quite a bit of knocking around before they’ll start to relinquish them. This varies by AI of course. Typically, you can nab a few techs as you capitulate an AI. I can’t see plainly extorting...

My gut was to SIP but after reading sampsa’s post I think settling on marble just might be better. The extra hammer just feels too helpful to pass up. You can still get 3 FPS, cow, and various other riverside tiles. Plus, it’s not like your capital will be able to work more than 7-8 tiles for a...

Welcome to the forum! I believe you’re correct - the hill would reveal the tiles. But, it’s a good habit to get into to move one tile at a time early game when there is lots of fog and unknown tiles. There can be barbs, etc. and you want to have as much info as possible before each move...

I saw a BUG tip yesterday that said to watch civics, since it could give clues regarding your opponent’s goals (e.g. theocracy -> making units). Surely this works vs human opponents; does it work on the AI? Moreover, what drives AIs civics, aside from one being their favorite? For instance, I...

Is this the current REXing benchmark? I think I saw 6 by 1 AD in the past; perhaps I need to up the ante :undecide:. This also seems to deviate a bit from what I see in some Lain games, but I guess sometimes you just get boxed in at 6-8 cities? Back to the OP, I can’t add much more than what...

Lots of good insights. I agree, bulbing math here is such a big help because I am negative GPT at 0% science slider after the war. Bulbing math saves so many turns of research in this case. I built an academy to try to avoid changing too much just to pick out specific things I was doing wrong...

Trade routes might be the most confusing thing I've seen in this game... It definitely seems like you must have discovered a city to have TRs there; it is not enough simply to know an AI. But why, in the trades-w-birka save, do I have a TR with Birka, but not say, Barcelona or Thebes? I do see...