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Breaking out a tangent discussion from OCC warmonger guide. Let's try to express the value of the profit in gold / turn. First cut: lets assume a raw beaker is 5x more valuable than gold. So the rep specialist is providing 15g + 200% = 45g/turn. The gold itself converts 1:1. So those...

Settings: Monarch difficulty Pangaea (solid coastline) Ancient Era Normal Speed One-City Challenge No Huts No Events No Vassals Conquest Victory Only: 6 Rivals left Persian Empire: Immortal replaces Chariot Apothecary replaces Grocer Darius: Financial Organized...

We're still seeing new players struggling with Noble, and under questioning we find that they spend and awful lot of time and energy on things that aren't winning. So this is an attempt at stripping away all the things we do that aren't winning. The lessons within are expected to be simple...

I'm still experimenting with the Foundation approach; this time, trying with Tokugawa. The upsides: Toku's traits really suck - which means that they don't distort the game in any useful direction. Also, aggressive/pro means that early game units get their first interesting promotion sooner...

Noble Exercise Work Book IV Previously, I had set up these challenges with a specific goal in mind, but it never quite worked out the way that I had intended. So I'm changing up the format slightly. Normal game speed and you are playing as Roosevelt. GOAL: to score six points on the...

A Rush Calculator The in-game combat calculator displays the probability of a kill, but does not offer any insights into the probabilities of the other possible outcomes. This Excel 2007 spreadsheet will allow you to calculate the probability that you will inflict a specific amount of...

We're still seeing new players struggling with Noble, and under questioning we find that they spend and awful lot of time and energy on things that aren't winning. So this is an attempt at stripping away all the things we do that aren't winning. The lessons within are expected to be simple...

We're still seeing new players struggling with Noble, and under questioning we find that they spend and awful lot of time and energy on things that aren't winning. So this is an attempt at stripping away all the things we do that aren't winning. The lessons within are expected to be simple...

Opening remarks: I can't in good conscience recommend this sort of thing to anyone - the profit margins are so small, and there are so many more important things to worry about. On the other hand, it is something to do during early turns when not much is going on. First, a review: what's...

you know the preacher likes the cold... Huge / Normal / Monarch Probably a bit harder/ more frustrating than your standard Monarch start. The SAVE.

I've spotted something a little bit odd in the way beaker overflow works during the opening, and wondered if anyone can reproduce what I've seen, and help to understand the root cause. Here's the start from Emperor Series #03 Suppose you research Agriculture first. That tech has no...

The game is different, so some game elements that we would normally expect have no place is the new world.... Schedules get tight, and you can't always risk putting everything in now, so some features get deferred to a later release.... But I never would have imagined that they would...

One of my out of the box complaints was that the zoom levels in the game were all wrong. Exploring My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\config.ini, I discovered that there's a Minimum Zoom Level setting; the comment calls for 11.0 by default but 4.0 for "debugging". So I turned...

Been thinking about this, and casting around with the code. No conclusions, just some observations being shared, and further discussion invited. For tonight, I've only done the calculations for 0xp. First note: at Prince and below, there's a handicap against barbarians. This means that a...

Difficulty: Monarch Speed: Normal Leader: Sitting Bull (Phi/Pro) Options: Huts/Events disabled Map: Donut (standard center) Translation: very lush - about 95% of the tiles on the map are green. Think big round Pangaea, with all of the initial city locations on the outer coast, approximately...

I continue to load up Noble starts, looking for a clear foundation to offer to players struggling at that level. I had been thinking that Continents would be the right choice, as it provides that nice divide at Astronomy, and a clear line for the space race. But I've found that there's a...

Taken from a recent thread.... Normal Speed, Noble Difficulty, so your tech costs are 75 :science: Mining 150 :science: Animal Husbandry 180 :science: BronzeWorking No production bonuses are in play. Problem: starting from Turn 0, what is the best development plan through turn 35? Edit...

Playground Bully This is an ancient era start at normal speed, with the difficulty set to Prince. The map is a standard size Lakes map, with temperate climate. Resouces are BALANCED which means every civ should have all of the strategic resources somewhere near the capital. Hut...

Four Green Fields Offered for entertainment purposes only. Difficulty: Noble Speed: Normal Size: Tiny Opponents: 3 Huts/Events: Off Map: Custom hint: what you see is what you get The SAVE

Great priests of Ra Ramses of Egypt Donut Map (Ocean center) Huts / Events Disabled Normal speed Monarch difficulty Scoring : One point for each Great Prophet settled in Thebes by 1700 AD (Turn 250). Ruling #1: settled prophets only, the various free priest specialists (Temple of Artemis...