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I try to like the game but the moronic AI and idiotic diplo along with the happiness system just create such an unholy trifecta of stupidity that even thinking of playing the game in its current state tests my gag reflex. Rat

Utter bull.. the AI plays exactly the same way on every - level - and it plays BADLY. It is an old PR spin to make AI sound better to say "it plays harder on higher levels" = it cheats. I don't know i 2KGreg said it but either way it is pure spin. Rat

That icon and the graphic remind me more of the Rock of Gibraltar in game than everest. Rat

Voted 5 - While it has replay value it isnt that great. It just seems to me that every game ends up pretty much the same: a massive nustercluck of wars, no trading, resource issues, ICS and a craptastic AI. The game just feels so linear compared to other CiVs. There just doesnt seem to be much...

I am just waiting for the person to vote for the AI.... :hammer: Rat

Exactly! Now is Sweden or Novgorod or even poland was the ally - all power to them.. But Aragon Klieves and Palatinate and I think Portugal (later) ?? Another issue was Badboy went down slowly - as in CiV this would usually result in huge wars (not just mine) as badboy just went up and up for...

Your snobby childish ad hominem aside - I wasn't complaining about the alliance themselves but rather how geographically and politically nonsensical they were. Being at war with 20 nations on the fartherst fringes of the map for being at war with one small neibour who is not that much smaller...

Oh the infamous bad boy system. It is one of the reasons I stopped playing EU3; that and the idiotic alliance system, I am Russia DoW on Tver who is allied to Aragon and some minor german states. Yet within 3 months I am at war with 20 nations despite the fact that my only earlier conquest was...

You guys summed up middle management beautifully. Rat

The problem as others have pointed out the AI sees the whole game as a zero-sum game in highlander style dual to the death. For a lite sim of world history that is a bit silly that everyone suddenly believes that the world ends in 2050 and you "lose" One way around this (for MP and single...

It isn't just you they denounce - it is royal gang bang once its starts with denouncements flying like confetti. It also triggers pretty much a non-stop series of wars that basically guarantees that you're going to have to play a domination win or get buried by petty wars. Rat

I hope he does well stardock needs talent. Well after the fiasco of Elemental: War of Bugs their latest offering wont get any worse. :lol: Rat

Without factories you are going to have a lot of trouble with production - pray you have lots of uranium. Given how the AI cheats at production at high levels not having factories is a huge hamstring. You are right about trading but i regularly find that coal is in very short supply - few if any...

:goodjob::goodjob: All your descriptions are good but these two take the accuracy cake. These two civs are always the milquetoasts in EVERY GAME i see them in. Has anyone seen Askia or Beorge "Bill" Washington ever be a threat to winning? In my current game askia still has warrior running about...

rarely - the end game just gets too moronic, especially the all-war/all-the time new diplo system, an AI that cheats so maddeningly, domination via puppetron empire being the best way to win AND the "you winz teh CiV" lame as hell pop-up is just 0 incentive to play on. half the time though it...

That is great point about resources. The more I play CiV the more I realize what they are just like happiness a speedbump that in fact actually hurts the AI more than the player. I find it really funny that with the exception of uranium and perhaps horses all the other resources are relatively...

After a new game post patch I decided to sum up a few AI observations 1) The AI builds siege units GOOD: It builds artillery and Cannon BAD: It seldom creates catapults and trebuchets UGLY: It cant use them offensively at all Suggestion : get rid of the iron requirement it is...

This is what is so funny about the trading - the values are fixed not depedant on supply and demand. I recently played game where i put 12 AI civs on standard map (it got crowded quickly). Few civs had any tradeable extra luxuries or resources. This would have made them very valuable. Most of...

I'd rather have a fun game than a game the usual boring wins. In the end the win is unimportant because I look forward to the experience of playing; the fun should be in the playing not only in winning. In my mind there is difference between reward and winning. Therein lies a huge part of CiVs...

Hanoi needs prozac.. but seriously that is the first I have heard about that one. Rat