Recent content by vinstafresh

That is a nice way to win. Coordinating everything so that you win 4 victories at once. That should have been an achievement on 360 ;)

Everybody is strong for economic victory. Find a spot with lots of desert and plains and a couple of sea tiles. Don't hit 250 gold, whatever you do! Research currency and you will probably wind up with a free market in that city. Switch to gold. You'll be getting to 250 fast now to get the...

I use roads less and less. I'm even at the point where I build roads when I absolutely have to save a city from getting sacked by sending over troops right this turn. The downside from having roads is that enemies will use these roads as well and they can surprise you very easily, since roads...

I have dropped Civ for PC entirely and go for this Civ. Civ for PC has been fun, but I always felt it was a lot of 'work'. I rarely entirely finished a game because moving units around is very very tedious. I understand the beauty and immersion of games that take weeks, but I don't want to...

To me it's the civ I've always hoped for. All the fun, none of the 'work'. It's not as deep as the PC version, but there is quite a lot going on under the surface. If you like religion, micromanagement, workers, pollution, penalties, unhappiness in previous civs, you should stay clear from...

Reloading seems like cheating though, but that's all up to you. You should try and build roads between cities to reduce movement points. Since mathematics is the last tech you'll need for this win, you should focus your cities to gold.

Industrialization (and Corporation) for me. 5 gpt + 50% bonus for democracy and a marketplace (and bank) can get up to 30 gpt per city while focussing on science! If you have like 8 cities, you get 250 gpt and be fully focussed on science. Double that amount when you get to both first...

Getting University and rush the Oxford University wonder and hope for Superconductor or Nuclear Power. You will force the others to research those techs themselves in the end and that might buy you some time. You can always try to determine where you can send a caravan and get good money...

not even when you are at war. You'll have to switch governments

You forgot the part that the Chinese start with writing. That means that right after you research alphabet, you can research code of laws, so you can start spamming settlers and still maintain large cities!

It seems that a few of those bonuses get penalties when you unlock those bonuses in eras before you're 'supposed' to have them. India 'suffers' a lot from this in order to nerf it a bit. They would be an unstoppable powerhouse if they weren't nerfed. England has this too, with dye.

On Deity it's pretty hard to afford early wonders. France, Egypt and America usually have a lot of wonders and great people, so take their cities and their wonders/great people. If you want to do it yourself, do like Carch said: get monarchy and especially magna carta for courthouses to...

I play single player, but I can imagine this could work in MP as well: I try to get to steam power early for the free cruiser. I usually load a settler on that cruiser (galleon is possible too earlier on) and settle on an island. I rush buy a settler from that new city, load it on the cruiser...

I think you can only pull this off as the Chinese, Indians or Greeks, since it takes 5 turns to complete HR from the get go and then 5 turns to produce the first horseman. The Chinese, Indians and Greeks produce their first on their 7th turn (3x6s + 1x2s+2x2p + 3x6p). I've tried this once...

The bonuses that affect your cities for first discovered techs are carried over to cities you build after discovering that tech. So if you discover Literacy with only 2 cities, your entire empire will still have +1 science per city in modern times. Huge! But you still need production to...