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Wow, it has been years since I posted in these forums. :old: Kyriakos, the issue is only indirectly what you call "Islamists" vs "Kemalists". The direct reason is because Turkey has been an undisputable dictatorship in the past 5-6 years, rather than the disfunctional democracy it had been...

The first four don't have as much significance (but Beyazid "the Lightning" is cool), they are merely the first four sultans of Ottomans. Mehmed II (Fatih = the Conqueror) is the only one worth adding here, based on his effect on the history of Ottomans and the world. And there wouldn't be...

I think the real inappropriate thing in all Civ games and expansions that included Ottomans so far is that it is called Ottomans. It is like having "Ming Dynasty" as a civ, rather than the Chinese. In this case it should have been called the Turks, and then it would make sense to have both...

Great job indeed. It helped me to get some feel of civ5 (I don't have a copy yet :P). But I also spotted some errors in the terrain portion. The text and listed defensive bonuses of desert, grassland and hill don't match. The resource yield of hills don't match the text description either...

I have played civ1,2,3,4, and am looking forward to 5. But one thing bugs me in every version: IRL big cities can have multiple banks, universities, factories, theaters etc. But in civ, the citizens of even the biggest metropolis must do their grocery shopping from the same single shop. Why...

Hagia Sophia would just look like a mound without those minarets - So even if the original design didn't have them, the civmakers would definitely go for the better looking version. The pic is probably a fictional muslim city, not necessarily Istanbul. Turkish minarets almost always have...

I would buy proper (i.e. not like MoO3) sequels of MoO2 and MoM, regardless of the price and system requirements. Other than the "Master of" series, the only game I have ever said that for is Diablo. Actually, when people say MoO4, designers will probably want to be innovative and make another...

Forgive my skepticism, but... How do you ever hope to make anything remotely resembling any of the MoOs without ship design or the combat screen? Those two features were what made MoOs so popular.

That would put Japan at great difficulty. Besides the last fighting between those two was in September 1939, so don't complicate things for a single turn of war.

I think this will hurt Axis AI more, due to its reluctance to attack.

The problem with that (concentrating russian forces to the border) would be that civ has no supply mechanics. In the actual war Eastern front saw lots of encirclement and defeat of supplyless units. That tactic will not work in civ. So you'll have to be careful about balancing this. I guess...

Especially the changes in Asia will make it more realistic I think. UK capturing all those Tibetan and Uighur cities was bugging me. Is it possible to prohibit changing of civics? Your new civic changes are all good, but when I tried the previous version, many AI nations had revolutions in...

I have a more basic question, not strictly relevant to this thread. When we have so many civs (which is the case in all GEMs), and when we open the scores display, how do we scroll up? Currently it just shows the lowest ones, but the top civs are the ones that matter - and I can't see their...

civ2's food caravans were one of the best features in any civ game in my opinion. That's how the real world works, in your words "a few Uber cities rather than many specialized cities", with rare exceptions like Germany. And the amount of food transferred would be limited which is not equal to...

have you considered grouping PLA with USSR and Kuomintang with USA.

The only case that "Germany is overpowered" can be said is one where Germany in the game does significantly better than what happened historically. So unless Genghis conquered entire Europe, the scenario is balanced... did he?

not really - as they would be fat :)

To simulate city populations more food resources are needed around large cities. Tokyo metropolitan area is size 43 in civ4 terms, NYC is 36, There will be over 20 cities of 30+ size in total. Tokyo would need about 95 food and 75 for NYC. Or maybe this can be solved by throwing in a bunch of...

For game balance it looks ok, but for the purposes of simulating relations of the real world I would Join North African civs to the Muslim team, and remove Turkey from there. Turkey gets along better with Europe or US than it does with the MiddleEast. Maybe round it in a team with US and Israel...

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