Pogue Mahone said:
Had a blast playing it today...
Oil is fairly common- especially with the offshore variant- though the silicon is rather rare. And the invisible barb seacraft was a little surprising.
silicon and oil are common. There are four classes of resources, common, uncommon, rare and ultra rare. I should have noted their classifications in the civilopedia.
I made a point system, where each era got, ( 10 - era ), points.... with common being 4 and ultra rare being 1. So for the first era, oil and silicon were common, and ronin ultra rare. So silicon is 4 times more available than ronin.
Secret resources are also ultra rare.
Got the "Ronin" resource, which I think you said was rare, right in the heart of my own territory, so looking forward to seeing how that plays out.
looking through the tech tree, if you have the right resources, you can build anything that says "pirate, rogue, ronin or mercenary"
I was shooting for a different system, and am not satisfied with the current system. I am going to change it to a building based system later, after I finish this game. I was still surprised in this game, as my neighbor had the ronin resource.
Blindsided by a rather nasty AI tactic, though, one I've never seen done before. Did the continents land option, so more orl ess it was two large landmasses surrounded by water. With a healthy tech lead, was the first over there, but got greedy when one of the civs was willing to give me contact with every civ on the new continent, two techs, and a token gpt in exchange for contact with all of the civs on my own continent.
Next turn, come to find that every... single... civ in the game was at my tech level. Fiendishly clever, certainly scaled back my invasion plans a litte.
I know all the rules and such, and find the AI incredibly difficult. I have yet to get past the second era myself. In a game right now, that I am last in tech, midway through the second era, and struggling for every inch of land I take, been at war almost the whole game.
Oh, lastly... love the barbarian tribes' names. Waiting to find an Assemblage 23 encampment.
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