Recent content by Tich

Hey Tommy! Good to see still kicking around :). You probably don't remember me but I was a regular Civ 5 player about a year back and I often approached you for advice. The game has changed slightly since I've left and I was wondering if there was anything that you'd be able to recommend for me...

Once your cities are 6-7 pop and your pop is >= the number of road tiles that you'll need to build to connect the city to your cap. Connect everything that you can sell, get your fresh water farms going, build 1-2 extra to account for growth and then connect them up. Should happen around turn...

Yeah late DoWs are the worst. The nice thing is that most games have a warmonger who you can pay like 4gpt to DOW whoever you want later on. What I usually do is pay that guy to DOW anyone who picks a different Ideology than me who is nearby. It was Poland in my game so he kept Egypt from DOWing...

What time did you manage Deau?

Playing the same civ over and over again is boring and pointless IMO. It's always better to vary it up so that you get practice with all of the civs :).

... yes it is lol :crazyeye:. I've played enough Shoshone to know that even though you get more tiles by no means do you always get exactly what you want.

Oh I see what you mean now. Yeah I'm not going to do that unfortunately. It's going to be "slower" and that's good enough for me.

I understand what you're saying but that's not really the point. The point is that YOLO strats are pretty lame if you're just going to re-roll if they miss. The thing about Petra is that there is no middling build for it. You either click on Currency and pray or you ignore it. Sometimes turn 55...

I think that going for Petra is always a bit of gamble. You have to go all-in on it starting on turn 1 and if you miss then you're pretty much screwed. That's a little dicey for me. You can obviously just re-roll or whatever if you miss but eh, I'd rather not. Petra may very well be ideal when...

Right... because you've never had a start with forests/hills/mining luxuries in your life or something? Believe it or not other civs can actually pump out Settlers too. Um... I don't even know what to say really. Doing a quest gets you Allied for what? A couple of turns tops? Doing a CS...

Feel free to prove it. It's a challenge, the save is there, if what I'm doing is sub-optimal then you're free to prove otherwise.

Ah. Well I mean I open Order so it's pointless for me to buy Factories and I can always buy at least 1 PS in my cap and buying a second would cost me the same as 3 RAs. I don't know the exact math or anything but I mean I doubt that 3 RAs are going to be significantly worse than a PS. Maybe they...

Probably because you got your Xcom 100 turns later than you could have :P. If you power them out then they're pretty... yeah...

Fixed that for you :). DoW + take cap + sign treaty a few turns later. Repeat. Unit needs to be removed from the game.

What does building Wonders have to do with saving money? Which are all incredibly risky and marginal given how OP Consulates and the World's Fair are. I basically allocate 0 hammers to culture stuff beyond Ampis because I can get all the Policies that I could ever need via the World's Fair +...