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probably best not to get too emotionally invested in someone unless/until you already are in the relationship. all the more reason to ask someone out early if you feel strong attraction, get a sense of whether there's interest in return. should get easier to gauge interest with experience too...

The first 60 or so posts in this thread were moved from the Afghanistan thread. Birdjaguar TBF, I'm tired of tossing enormous quantities of money and lives at "helping" countries that clearly don't want it. No more "nation building" abroad, we could use a little domestically. If terrorists...

Just looking for consistency of standards. Seems awfully inciteful.

Order List (02/22/2021) (supremecourt.gov) Now would be a good time to shore up what can and can't be done prior to and during elections, without the baggage of fighting over an ongoing election or its results. It would appear SCOTUS is once again passing on its responsibility to do this...

Previous cases against big tech on 1st amendment grounds have failed, but it appears that Facebook/Google/Twitter are altering policy/making decisions based on government directives and/or communication with government agencies. Per a few articles the Biden administration has been pushing tech...

The newest iteration of spring leagues is upon us. So far, the XFL has been mixed for me but about as good as I'd ever expect a startup spring league to be. The good: Officiating: this is one area where the XFL 2.0 has been straight up better than the NFL so far. The process is more...

Last thread on this game is > 6 years old. I was badgered into playing this recently and over the past month it's been a fantastic time sink. Took a while to start winning, I'm up to 5 wins now. As far as roguelikes go this one is pretty brutal in difficulty. Even with end game strength...

While this was in ezmode emperor co-op and this position can win the game solo (apparently true even if you choke the opening micro and lose 5 turns recapturing a settler lol), it's still awkward. There were 5+ city states with acceptable capital land with actually better spacing from other civ...

Is there any way to determine what factors contribute to era score in-game? If you play without barbs you need to put a little effort to avoid dark age, though if not loyalty pressured you could do worse than pushing into heroic shortly thereafter.

Has anybody tried to make a city state ally and then repeatedly gift it units while dragging it into war? I'd imagine it's like herding cats but it seems a fun bit of cherry tapping to gift something like logistics artillery you can easily spam out in the capital (hammer out and rush buy with...

I have a small request for planning purposes from the Civ V experts. I am looking not for specific strategies or anything like that, but rather for benchmarks. For example in another thread I saw something like "archer rush t25" or "xbow rush t55" (assuming standard speed on those). Those are...

I've read on-and-off again levels of functionality regarding civ V and Linux with expansions. Last I checked, vanilla can be made to run with WINE...has anybody gotten single + multiplayer running in BNW with Linux? I'm running Mint 13, which is basically the equivalent of Ubuntu (stable...

Alright, so this has been nagging me since before I switched over to Linux (now running Mint 14, previously windows xp and vista). No matter what I do, the game gets pretty slow over time, and running things like HoF mod slow it down slightly more. I always thought it was a processor...

Specifically, this one: I can *very* clearly see why this is a banned tactic. In fact, I didn't know it existed (interesting to still be learning things even now). I am curious about the mechanics behind this; are people using the fist icon in the f1 screen to liberate cities while at war...

Surprise :spank:!!!!!! This is a new take on an old tactic that has been cropping up here and there and everywhere (like the gummi bears, except MOAR WIN :nuke::nuke:)! So you see an AI has the max gold available per turn that it is willing to trade. You have lots of resources and want to...

Hi all. I've been thinking a bit lately about how the RNG luck-****s us in the early game sometimes, and sometimes offers great rewards. Many have considered it a necessary evil, but I'm not convinced it's truly necessary. What if combat outcomes between two relative strength ratios were...

Or is the game still preventing people from actually playing it for hours per game? If it works now I'll get it, but if they didn't put any serious effort into the engine so the game runs decently then they're still failaxis. Let me know :).

They can trade fish for ivory, which is ghetto because it won't treat humans that way (collusion). But that's just foul play, not cheating. Cheating is when they can trade fish for ivory through your borders, when you have closed borders with each of them. Cheating is when they can build...

Okay, your catapult rush early on bogged down in longbows. Stubbornly, you've pushed on to slaughter the target anyway. Unfortunately, great people, tech, and most other facets of gameplay were sacrificed as you single-mindedly pursued blood. So it's late game and you're about to be last in...

I had a few requests for this in recent months, so I'll post a recent save. Playing through a game on strategy & tips as Qin, I found myself in an interesting scenario on immortal: - Monty had declared on me early and slowed me down... - He also capitulated Wang, so when I did fight him...