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I've been reading some of the excellent posts regarding rebalancing the game. It strikes me a chief complaint is that it is too easy to "turtle" in the game, to focus on growth as opposed to war. Also, war is unbalanced in that range units currently out-perform melee and mounted units. So-...

Thanks! - it now seems to be working

I suspect there is a simple fix for this I created a map and scenario in Worldbuilder - started simple, just 2 players. I created 1 city each, marked each city as the start location, placed a few units. Players are both marked playable. I save it in the maps file. I run Civ V - I choose...

Would a work around to address siege's vulnerability against cities be to increase the RCS of siege and then take away it's bonus vs city and give it a penalty defending against melee/gunpowder/mounted?

I was seeking opinions on small changes to the XML - I'm sure others have played with these settings. Two items have been annoying me: 1) Tradition seems over-powered - there is too high of an opportunity cost to choose another early policy tree 2) The AI has little appetite for early war...

I initially didn't buy Civ V because of Sulla's articles - then I received it as a gift and gave it a try. I've found that (at least after the patches) it was a pretty good game. Granted I play intermittently, at "prince" level. What I especially like is that the AI will be active - the...

I've searched the forums and found little information regarding this. Does anyone use the tectonics map script? I tried it several times and kept getting very little land, usually with most of the land at the poles. It was somewhat better adjusting the settings for "60% water" - even then...

I pulled up Sulla's walk-through the other day - that was enough to convince me to hold off on purchasing CiV.

Interesting points in TMIT's post - this has inspired me to try epic speed. What are people's feelings about map size with epic speed? Standard vs larger? Specifically, does a standard map feel too small with the slower speeds?

I'm interested in giving the marine unit access to the city raider promotions. I thought this would be easy, but it looks like I'm stuck with: 1) Giving all gunpowder units access to CR or 2) Giving marines a bonus CRI, similar to how samurai start with a drill promotion. Am I missing a...

BTW - two posts above mention "BUG" - what is that? I tried to use the search function but you can imagine what happens when you search for BUG.

I (like everyone else) found I never used ironclads and didn't like how early airships came. I changed: - Airships to require combustion (but not oil) and took away their sub-spotting ability. - Removed the no-ocean-travel nerf to ironclads, and bumped the strength to 15 I also have the...

I'm at the same state, moving from Prince to Monarch. The single change that made Prince easy was remembering the importance of food! I had been placing as many cottages as I could, but I struggled to keep up with the AI. Now my goal is to grow my population quickly up to the caps set by...

One tactic that I've found very useful in the early (ancient to medieval eras) game is the war aimed not at taking cities but economically crippling a rival. The AI tends to fortify itself in cities, allowing you to raid the countryside. You can devastate his ability to grow, tech, make war...

I've been lurking for a while, but have never posted until now. Had something very strange happen that I've not seen described here. I was playing as Hannibal, fighting Shaka. Several turns before I took his capital. I then took a second city, his new capital. I was then told I had...