Search results

I did not know this and it will make my wars go by much faster. Feels more than a bit exploitish to me, though. Even without the districts remaining once I've got the techs that backfill all the era 1-3 or 1-4 buildings planting a new city is fantastic.

Title says it all. When I start abnormally close to a protective civ I generally don't want to rush if they settled on a hill, but sometimes their capitol is too forested to see the center tile. Waiting for open borders seems too slow to bother axe rushing unless I have the perfect techs for my...

I had Elizabeth as a capitulated vassal today, and I wanted her to research Scientific Method. It was in the list of her available researches. She was currently starting Liberalism. I already had Lib, and was going to trade it to her with something else for Method. When I asked her to switch, I...

As long as they're not Spiritual it does.

Darn, didn't think of that. I could have been in caste if I'd thought of it. Good idea for next time, thanks.

I recently did a trade with Hammurabi and asked him to switch to the pacifism I was running in a golden age just because I had more value to use so I may as well make him waste a turn, another if he changes back, and he had a sizeable military and is my next target so I may as well hurt his gold...

I traded away music today while building Sistines for failgold. It made me wonder, does the AI consider whether or not a wonder associated with a tech has already been built? i.e. Would I get more gold selling music before I built Sistine than after, assuming it was known by the same number of...

Fantastic, thanks for diving into the code.

I assumed there was some randomness involved, but that's a larger random factor than I expected. Thanks very much for the explanation.

In my current game Zara will not be bribed vs Elizabeth. He will be bribed against Huayna and Ragnar. He shares a religion with none of them, is on his own island, and is not trading with her because I got an embargo in a trade deal. He is at cautious with all 3 of them. The reason given is "We...

Watching a Lain video I saw he got +1 diplo from Kublai Khan for "Developing nations should work together to catch up". I've never seen this modifier before, is this when the 2 last place score-wise nations make a fair trade, or how does one trigger this bonus? My google-fu stinks, I couldn't...

Genghis founded Hinduism in my current game on turn 20. This got me wondering why an AI would ever go down that route with Genghis. I'd try it, just because I'm terrible with the pure warmongers and I'm not going to win without some kind of economic boost or a near-HoF level start. Or a nice...

Thanks for the replies! I think I might tend to do things backwards as my usual go-to from isolation is to build up a bit of military power so I'm not too tempting and then trade around Astro to backfill and win by space. Try and get friendly with someone as I do end up with WFYABTA problems at...

This is an issue with me and Justinian. I play him stupidly, goofing off, and enjoy it. That I'm not worried about, I'm winning fine on Emperor even with isolated starts (aside from Justinian games :P). Sometimes I think I'm better isolated, or at least I feel I understand them better. Being in...

So every couple years Civ4 gets it hooks in me again and I try to work my way back to Immortal. Diplo is generally what I consider the weakest part of my game (although building enough troops to matter is probably close). This game is exactly the type of situation that stymies me every time...

In my current game, Tokugawa DoWed and was beating up Justinian which I preferred did not happen. They'd both been pleased with each other prior to the war and nothing had changed so I traded education to Tokugawa to make peace with Justinian in the hopes that he would then turn to other...

I'm assuming this is simply a lack of tooltips as in the dev stream when they were considering which promotion to give a spearman when they were currently being attacked by barbarian horse units they stated that the spearman already had a bonus against horsemen when they chose the other...

I know you can tell them not to, as I told Gandhi not to a couple of games ago, though he refused to stop. We were friends if that matters. The option is at least there at some point, presumably after they've dug up at least one. Iirc it's under the discuss diplomatic option.

Perfectly understandable, thanks. I figured that would be the case, but just wanted some verification. More cities next time around then!

I don't have a problem with Hubble anymore as the science victory seems to be the slowest even with the 2 bonus scientists. Just finished a game where I was 17 techs ahead of my nearest competitor and still ended up winning diplo almost accidentally about 5-6 turns before researching the final...