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Dale, just wanted to post a shout-out for great work. Played your patch today for the first time and it is awesome.

I tend to rush the strategically important units (hardy pioneers, seasoned scouts, jesuits) that make a huge difference early on. Otherwise I try to get my church with firebrands up ASAP because the immigration crosses generated are just insane and the rush value pops up quickly as you...

-Multi-production tiles. I like this quite a bit, because it gives much more flexibility in colony design since tiles can produce so many things. -Someone already mentioned it, but refined resources. I almost wish there was a third tier of goods, or maybe something to do with silver. Or...

This seems to be the Firaxis business plan these days. Release something flawed with great potential, and let the community fix it. Good points and good thread. I think the underlying engine is a lot of fun and the potential is there, but the game is limited unless it gets beaten into...

During one of my WoI, I had an indian ally declare war on the king. He didn't get to the front lines before I managed to sink the royal fleet and win, but somewhere around 10-15 braves were making their way through my colonies. If they had gotten there, they'd at least have died valiantly. I...

Keeping your gold low to "hide" it from the king's demands is good, but outright rejecting him is better. The benefits for doing so seem to far outweigh accepting-- Dale, one of the testers, has also indicated the penalty for such an action is also quite low. Another tip is to make sure to...

Especially when attacking the Incans for example, who have a trait that yields more gold when their villages are pillaged (yes, you read that right). I didn't notice this until my 5th game (of restarts, of course), but take a look at the native traits if you haven't. As opposed to colonial...

I also had the cycling problem in my first game, but it hasn't resurfaced yet. I can't tell if I like the UI yet, but it definitely took some getting used to. I like drag and drop, but I do not like the graphical sketchy stuff for each building in your city.

Free Colonists are the vanilla, good at everything. Indentured servants get a penalty to manufacturing goods, but otherwise can do whatever. Petty criminals get penalties to raw materials and manufacturing, but are great for arming up as soldiers and sending off to die-- but there are no...

Been playing (and restarting quite a bit) and my biggest impression is that this is not Civ 4. It sounds obvious, but there are some very distinct differences in playstyle other people have pointed out. For example, rapid expansion is key-- there isn't the blatant warmongering of Civ 4 and the...

PS3 or 360 version Dirt?

I saw a thread on the forum that one site has Colonization as 18 euros, which is about $29 USD (according to today's exchange rate). I think $30 is right on the money, no pun intended, but I worry they'll price it at $40 or even $50. I'm concerned that all of the marketing messaging of this...

I rarely pre-order, even if Gameslop, err Gamestop is mean if you don't. Frustrating to me is Amazon can't seem to get games to you within a few days of the release date, you usually have to wait, so I end up trekking to Best Buy or Gamestop.

It's a shame there can't be some sort of balancing feature for technology. But with the various bonuses one can get, an archer army can be competitive with significantly advanced technology... but let's be honest, I don't care how inspired, fortified and capital city defending an archer can be...

I agree dc82-- I dislike when the AI takes the hive mentality approach-- the AI wants you to lose, but doesn't differentiate which one of the AI wins. It's frustrating, but at the same time, until the AI is truly competitive with humans, it needs to be designed that way to be competitive...

It sounds like a reasonable change, if it ends up being true-- the food cost addition is most logical.

True, but MP games are minimally fun if there is a single clear strategy people need to follow in order to have the greatest chance to succeed. Pre-nerf mutalisk rush, anyone?

It really depends on not just how much you play, but how you play. Ricardojahns made an excellent point that playing on easy difficulties is a mistake-- you just won't get better. The other thing to consider is WHY you play. Do you play to comp stomp and have fun, or do you like challenge...

My pet peeve is the string of events (as others have stated) that happen over and over-- usually 3 theater fires in a relatively short period of time or the equivalent (mines, forges, whatever). Probably a symptom of streaky random number generators, but a hard cap on number of instances the...

I've been a hater on Firaxis for the lack of patch-dom for some time. I am happy to see a new patch, but a little concerned about the lack of some major issue fixes-- multiplayer OOS, being the most glaring, and the reports of no war weariness for AI player (frightening and ridiculous if true)...