Recent content by Talq

Neither. 2K Games, the publisher seems to have all responsibility for news on Civ. Steam is a retail outlet. The only news it shows is what is already public knowledge. Firaxis never seems to comment on anything (except when Sid does a rare interview) nowadays. Personally I do find this a...

Pretty much as Yzman put it. They start with and (due to production bonuses) build more units, and so are more likely to think they can win a war with you.

If the AI in CiV worked like the OP thinks it does (and I know enough to know it doesn't), then one could note that his CiV AI could use multiple cores by the simple expedient of each core moving units in different areas of the map.

The concept behind the Gaians is more the pro-green anti-free market environmental protesters who were prone to peaceful and not-so-peaceful acts of civil disobedience to raise awareness of environmental issues. They were relatively more prominent in the 1990's (when SMAC was made) than now...

Brian Reynolds and Soren Johnson talking Alpha Centauri for an hour was quite interesting. Well worth a listen.