Recent content by Thor7

This thread is an interesting read, but you shouldn't have to strategize to specifically build large cities- they should become large as a byproduct of persuing some victory condition. I mean obviously you have to focus on building some infrastructure, but it's totally ridiculous that you have...

This is my biggest complaint with the game. It was obviously designed by someone who hated the building/economy aspects of civ4 and basically wanted to spam a few units and take over the world. Civ5 is not builder friendly, if for one reason that happiness is ridiculous. Even if there was...

Can someone explain exactly how flanking bonuses work? Do you get these automatically or do you have to have that one policy in honor that increases combat strength by 15% when a friendly unit is adjacent? Also how does the stacking work? I was being overrun by gandhi's stupid elephants so I...

I played civ5 for a few hours, got bored and reloaded some old saves on civ4. Honestly there's a lot of issues with 5 now. Why can't you keep both anyway? Out of harddrive space?

What I don't understand is, everything in this game seems so dumbed down and precise, no randomness to battles, just hit points and combat values, no sliders and multipliers, everything produces a static amount of food/happiness/gold. Yet diplomacy is a complete mystery. There are no numbers...

How do you still run civ2? Thought it wouldn't run on xp.

Recommended specs are a quad core cpu so I'd assume the game is designed to use them all.

My comp is over 4 years old, AMD Athalon x2 2.2ghz, 2 gb of ram, ati x1900xt graphics, windows xp. Runs really, really bad. Everything on low and I get gray splotches when I pan which repaint themselves once I stop moving. Lots of lag on tooltips as well, and my last game crashed about 100 turns...

While I need to give it a few more full playthroughs, I am in agreement. They took way too much out and added too little. It feels like an rts now where all you're doing is micromanaging units instead of building an empire.

Creative lets me skip monuments and build granaries or workers immediately. Expansive makes granaries and workers cheaper. So one of those two, I voted cre, but they're equal to me. Imp is good too, but I find that a lot of my settler production comes from food, not hammers, so it's only good...

One more interesting thing, on my industrial start religion is a non factor. Every started with lib for free religion civic. About 3 turns in religions were magically founded in random cities but by then everyone was running FR so no one really switched out. Even now many turns in only a few...

Does anyone play many later era starts? All of my civ games are usually decided by the industrial era- around rifles and liberalism- and are always won by gaining a tech lead. Sometimes I'm behind in land and production but trade around some techs, research rifles or steel and make a land...

I find this interesting because it nets you theocracy and civil service, the prereqs to paper so you can get quick paper, trade maps around for some gold and run deficit research to backfill. But it appears a lot of the better players don't even need to use the prophets to do this.

Praets are so powerful because the have no counter. Base axes, supposedly the melee counter, are still weaker. Only dog soldiers have even odds. At least cataphracts are 50/50 vs pikes, meaning with defensive bonuses you can still stop them without too much trouble. Nothing stops praets until...

Uh everyone doesn't choose leaders just based on UU/UB. Traits are a big part, but compare say Cyrus to Victoria, where I'm sure most people would rather be financial, but Cyrus' Immortals are good enough to make him more desireable to some people than Vicky. As far as aggressive, I...