Recent content by snarzberry

Well it should be noted that this is something that has traditionally been very difficult for the developers to get right on the first go. Alpha, beta, whatever, it turns out that when you release the game to hundreds of thousands of players that are all trying to find the best way to win then...

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime - The bar has been set pretty high, after all. Sean Bean is a pretty damn awesome choice but some of the quotes are kind of jarring. It isn't that important at the end of the day and if I get to hear Sean...

Being able to catch settlers doesn't make much sense to me, in terms of game balance at least. It would lead to really weird games where you were just super lucky and managed to get three really early cities and you can just blow out any other game, no matter how well played. At the end of the...

Well, if you've chosen a civ that's designed for early war then to get the most out of them you're going to want to attack someone, right? Religion, citystates, resource trades, social policies, careful choosing of which cities to attack and which to keep... there are many ways to maximize your...

Try getting your early development techs then go for writing, then beeline iron working. Sell all extra luxes for cash and save it. Build warriors, half a dozen or more, settle 6 iron if you get lucky and upgrade to legions. Then here is a trick I use for Rome which is fun, instead of...

That's something I would advise in gnk and vanilla, but with the new mechanics I'm leaning towards building worker in the capital early. I'd prefer to have a worker chopping and improving luxes much earlier than is possible from a city state steal, which I will do usually anyway for another...

ah I didn't know that. So in my last game when I bribed the danes to attack Ghandi hoping to save time by not having to take Delhi that was completely wrong and I'd have had to take it anyway. I suppose that's fine, there were a few ridiculous ways to finish dom games in the earlier versions...

I'm experimenting on the beginning of the game as well and I'm liking going pottery - mining - lux tech while building scout - worker - granary(or shrine in a good religion spot) (worker chops granary) monument from tradition - then settler - settler with the worker chopping and improving luxes...

I suppose it must work something like that but I haven't figured out exactly what's happening. If I remember correctly in GnK if you dowed a second cs then they went into permanent war and wouldn't deal with you for the rest of the game, memory is a little shaky but I think that's right. It's...

If you're planning to win by domination then you're going to piss everyone off pretty quickly by multiple DoWs and taking a lot of enemy cities, but importantly you're still going to be able to maintain some trading partners, especially if you get early DoFs with civs that have low warmonger...

I haven't played them yet, but those early abilities sound nice. Think i'll try them in my next game. You should be able to gimmick that ability to boost a couple different opening strategies nicely.

Yeah it's still viable, just a bit trickier now. With the dom uberpowers like mongolia/arabia etc only deity is going to provide much resistance if you really know what you're doing. Remember it's a victory condition you're after, that's the payoff, if you kill everyone you win :)...

Firstly, it's possible that every roulette ball spun from this moment will come down red. Assuming infinite capital speaks to the observation that when you double a value over and over it doesn't take many generations before you have some very large numbers. For instance, if you were...

I was very similar to you coming out of high school. I've always been fascinated and engrossed in thinking about abstract concepts and have a deep desire to understand. I'll sit for hours on end deep in thought about the nature of beauty, questioning the idea of moral relativism or imagining...

re the martingale betting discussion (that's what these doubling up systems are called in the casino world), it's not a guaranteed way to make money which is thwarted by the casino having limits. It wouldn't matter if there were no limits, it has a negative expected return either way. You...