Recent content by Sirian

Your menu of dishes prepared at home may benefit from new recipes! Occasionally, I have seen a circumstance where both Wood and Iron are scarce at a given start location, and the player needs to train a lot of Slinger units (trained with Food), then make use of them to secure some Iron and Wood...

Urban terrain cannot be converted to wilderness. It's Urban forever. However, what's on an Urban tile can be overwritten by a new improvement. ... The Ctrl button required to be pressed, to overwrite an existing improvement, is there to help prevent accidentally putting a Farm on your Pyramids.

Like Soren, I have not made use of my CivFanatics account in a long time. I wonder how many people are still around who remember me? I noted some talk in this thread from a couple of weeks ago about random events. While there is a lot of randomness to the event system, there is also plenty of...

Congrats! Were any of them a big pain in the rear? Or were they all fun to chase? I've got a few games with all the achieves completed. Some were a pleasure. But some had that one or two achieves that were too much grind or just poorly designed. Some other games I might have finished all the...

Yeah. That error handling has two purposes: 1) Prevent the game from crashing or locking up (which is considered a more serious issue by the publisher than even an unplayable map situation). 2) Alert the map programmer to a failing case, so it can be fixed. The fallback is never supposed to...

Ya. Everything needed to fix the issue (in a mod) should be exposed.

Sounds likely. The addition of waterborne cities presented several new map design challenges that the franchise never encountered before. Although I handled maps for Civ for over a decade, including in BE, Firaxis opted not to use my services for Rising Tide. - Sirian

All the large deposits (and many of the small ones) for Affinity resources spawn in the alien habitats. That's by design. The dearth of nests in the tundra and desert wilds is not intended and will be fixed. So enjoy your easy access to Firaxite and Float Stone while you can. Or look forward to...

Those cracks in the planet look pretty cool. :cool: I bet I could come up with some interesting ways to distribute those across the map. :mischief: - Sirian

I believe it was released on Tuesday. Here's part of the blurb for it from Steam: "Scrambled Nations map pack includes maps for the geographic regions of Canada, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, Turkey, Italy, Russia and China." - Sirian

Terra is still the only map with a significant section of land set aside to have no major civs. Small Continents (the original, or the Plus version) could work if you were willing to tone down the number of civs in the game. Try a Standard size with four civs, for instance, and some...

There are two fully random scripts in with the eight drawn-outline scripts. If you're a big fan of Continents and Archipelago, you'd probably really enjoy Oceania (a concept much easier understood if seen as opposed to a description) and Small Continents Plus. But whether you'd get your value...

Hi. To answer your question, in a sense it's both, but the maps definitely lean more to random. Here's the blurb from Amazon describing the map pack: That's accurate and fairly pithy. The shape of the land remains the same, but forests, terrain types, resource types and locations, city...

I just checked my PMs for the first time this year -- apparently I'm fashionably late to this party. :lol: Pink Dot(TM) had long legs, eh? That's pretty cool. Interesting that the comic relief made a bigger impression than the dot map itself. In my first succession game, I had a vision of...

There isn't enough Marsh for it to dominate a region -- at least not on any of the Firaxis maps. Approx 8% of grass tiles turn to marsh. For there to be more than about ten plots of Marsh on a Standard sized map is rare. They are usually clustered in to patches of several, though. (And any...