Recent content by voskhod-1

I've begun to wonder: How do most people play the game? I've settled into a steady rhythm of playing from Ancient to Industrial on Perfect World2 maps, using either High to Low or Flexible Difficulty to make things interesting throughout the entire game (and prevent me from snowballing into...

I figured as much about the others, but how does Ruthless AI give the player a lopsided advantage?

Wasn't sure if the AI could use GC's or not, apparently not. I only use them to assault cities though. What other options should I look out for that make the game easy? I imagine the AI also can't handle Surround and Destroy?

Revolutions is fun, so is barb-civs, I always play with both enabled. The only problem is big maps. I kind of don't like playing on anything larger than Small w/ low sea levels to compensate for less land. Mostly because I find that Normal sized maps and larger start having unbearably long turn...

I guess I have a question. How do people usually play this game? Me, personally, I have never actually made it past the Medieval age because I'm always the #1 world power by then and have eclipsed all the other empires. I actually want to get into the Industrial era but I feel like I can never...

That's the thing though. Always War is the same as all the AIs being in an alliance against you. They're at peace with each other: Always War means they're only in a state of war with the player. Despite this, I never had any of them even try to attack my cities with anything more than a stack...

After winning my second game on Deity level with the "Always war" option on and Conquest-only victory (both times having won during the middle-late Medieval era) I'm starting to find it a bit preposterous how peaceful the AI is. They almost never seem to care about producing military units...

Why not give both Despotism and Monarchy the +1 happy per military unit, then?

Is there any particular reason why Despotism doesn't give +1 happiness per garrisoned military unit like Monarchy does? I would think that the primary method of maintaining power in a Despotic government is through crushing military dominance

Whenever I tinker with settings and options in RoM and load a game I'd been playing previously, I get a prompt asking me to recalculate the new variables that are being used - which I obviously want to do. However, every time I do this I notice my gold and research plummets dramatically. Upon...

Whenever I tinker with settings and options in RoM and load a game I'd been playing previously, I get a prompt asking me to recalculate the new variables that are being used - which I obviously want to do. However, every time I do this I notice my gold and research plummets dramatically. Upon...