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@digitCruncher: I am insufficiently competent to offer any perspective on "Mehmed the No," but am curious how that game will play out. Post what happens/happened, when you get a chance. BTW, what difficulty are you on? --DeadDark

@ Camarilla: Many thanks for the great information! :cool: That is exactly what I was looking for. I understand what you meant by not putting in deer and some other bonuses--with WB, things can quickly and easily get out of control and crazy. "Wow, every single tile in my BFC has a great...

I am planning to kick my game up to Monarch, first time ever, using the WE. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago (post nr. 149) that I often regenerate the map 20-30 times looking for an "ideal, perfect, optimum" site for my wonder capital, but that I often am unclear of just what it is I am...

@Go Boks: QFT! :) ----- I now understand why I was thinking that conquest scored higher than domination: It is simply because for months I have played with both vassilization and the domination victory condition checked off. Even worse, I hardly ever raze cities. Bazillions of cities...

:dunno: @Joshua and Runner: Now I am confused: I don't care about score, as long as I get a satisfying win, but I thought that conquest (usually?) generated a higher score than domination. Maybe it depends, as a domination win will end the game sooner for the "earlier" calculation in the...

Well, what can you expect when: "On occasion, disease-infected corpses were flung by trebuchets into cities in an attempt to infect the people under siege—a medieval variant of biological warfare." From Wikipedia. :p --DeadDark

@Mayor: I may be the last person on Earth who should be offering advice on the Wonder Economy. On the other hand, it is essentially all that I play--just because I find it enjoyable to do so. There is one thing that I have learned, based in part on the posts in this thread: You should not...

Ha! Way, way back when I was a noob ... oh, wait, I still am a noob. I am, in any event, still doing way too many of the things that have been listed here. :eek: :blush: :blush: :blush: Gotta get better, gotta get better, gotta get better ... :D --DeadDark

Thanks, Siesta--I really must do something, and something soon, not least because I am right about to enter the Modern era in my current game. It has to be done, for my health and the few remaining pieces of furniture that are still in one piece, if nothing else. :lol: --DeadDark

The only reason I can think of to go back to Vanilla is the music: the great opening track, and the rest of the music is, to me, also much better. Some of the modern-age music in BtS--especially this one song that is mostly a sad, lonely violin playing all by itself--makes me inexplicably...

I was in your position a few months ago, diplomat, and am only now slowly "getting it"--the fundamentals, at least. I still learn many new things every day. This game is complex, as you know. The best advice is: Spend a fair amount of time when you can on these forums--there is a huge amount of...

I am always intrigued at the different approaches/stategies/priorities the Civeterans(TM) on this forum have in a given situation, such as in this "what to build first" one. These differences make the game fun and endlessly new. If Stonewall Jackson, Napoleon, Alexander and Rommel were to...

Many thanks for the responses--I thought for sure when I came back there would be only a few "It depends" answers, even though it really does depend. :) I have never built granaries or courthouses first; almost always Theaters and Forges. Theaters, thinking, "All these poor souls suddenly...

I am usually befuzzled when I look at the long build list in a freshly captured city. Based on experiences with previous versions of Civ, I am always tempted to first build a Temple, which, according to the list, will take 76 turns (at the moment the city is captured). But then there is a Forge...

I like your modesty, Camarilla, but you should know that I have learned a huge amount from you in this and other threads--always much detail + reasoning, and most appreciated is that you are not shy to say "I was wrong about what I said in an earlier post." That is really rare. :cooool: Keep up...

Please allow/forgive me for repeating this part of a thread that I started last week: :) "On this, my first post, I wish to thank all of you frequent posters very much for all of the invaluable information that I have learned over the past several months here. I typically spend about two...

Thanks, Bushface--much appreciated info. Interesting, this: "buildings not yielding culture may or may not survive capture." Apparently, then, it is random which non-culture-producing buliding survive and which don't. I had no idea that was the case. --DeadDark

Thanks, Genv. That doesn't answer my question, however, regarding whether siege does damage to buildings in a newly captured city when attacking cultural defense. Does siege destroy buildings? If not, does anything else? How does that work? I am very curious about that. Many thanks. :scan...

Hi, Civfanatics: On this, my first post, I wish to thank all of you frequent posters very much for all of the invaluable information that I have learned over the past several months here. I typically spend about two hours reading the forums every day. I would list all of those who have...