Recent content by Tusked

GigaNerd, I like the bit where Ireland and England connect =P

Latin is the least dead of dead languages. If you can find me a college course ANYWHERE in the United States that teaches you to speak ancient Egyptian, I will mail you the laptop I am currently typing on. By contrast, EVERY college teaches Latin. It's not hard to find a competent Latin...

I don't particularly care either way, I'm just arguing that it qualifies.

One has to assume that the game designers knew at least somewhat what they were doing. At least they got Venice.

Well, there's no denying that the city of Rome had an effect on the landscape of feudal europe, and that it qualifies as a city state. With that in mind, what should we call it to distinguish it from classical Rome? Feudal Rome? Pope City? That one place with the guy with the hat? Ooh...

It was feudal europe, everything had some degree of self-government. That's not an argument against Vatican City as a city state. There are other arguments that could be made, but that's not one.

But it was much more than that historically. Rome-as-the-vatican-city had control over large pieces of Italy at certain points.

Probably. I only just entered this discussion, and probably don't understand the overarching argument, so I'm going to take the opportunity to exit gracefully and quickly. Toodles.

Working hard =/= slavery. Though I have no problem with the mechanics as they were in civ 4, though it was a bit annoying to have to stick to slavery the whole game to keep those cities competitive.

I think the reason it feels a bit funny is that the influence Vatican city exerted over civs was religious - a mechanic that isn't implemented. Vatican city is a bit of an oddity among city states in that without the religious power of the pope it probably would have been ground into the dust...

...the entirety of Polynesia?

Heh. Maritime/Irrational, make it so the code always puts it on a one-tile island with no resources nearby.

Hypothetically, they could fix the whole "can't include some city-states because they're part of civs" thing by just putting in a filter that says, say, the city-state of Amsterdam and the civilization of the Netherlands can't be put in the same game. Since a city state would only invalidate...

Wait, so you're telling me the Vandals had aqueducts? 'cause I seem to remember that being a Roman invention.

I don't believe people overemphasize Rome. When you consider the impacts they've had on world history, it's pretty amazing. From one city-state built up a few centuries before Christ, you get Christianity (which might be slightly important in the scheme of things) and successor states in the...