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Their treatment of horses seems fine to me. You need a pasture to even have access to horses. Stables give mounted units a free promotion, which is enough to encourage players to build a stable as well.

I think some of the active spying should have far higher consequences if he/she gets caught, perhaps triggering a war (i.e. destroying a major cultural building, poisoning its citizens, causing a revolt), since these are essentially acts of terrorism. In real life, I don't think countries would...

Hello, I recently played a game (on warlord level) where I obtained a cultural win. During that game, i had my espionage slider at the lowest level, and did not build any intelligence agencies or anything in the late game. However, throughout the game, every single spy attempt on my civ...

thanks for the response. It's hard to know what the AI is thinking sometimes! They are no longer a threat and their cultural borders are getting smaller and smaller, so i will probably just gift them a tech every now and then to keep them happy.

Hello, In my current game (on warlord level, still a newbie!), i have been struggling to build my culture and military to keep up with two civ's that are stronger than me. The tide suddenly turned when a less advanced civ out-of-the-blue voluntarily asked to become my vassal state. My...

will do, thanks!

Hello, I just tried the demo and surprisingly it worked very smoothly on my onboard video (new G33 bearlake intel chipset). Rest of the spec's: e4400 chip and 2 gigs of RAM. I'm just curious if anyone had any thoughts on whether the demo is a good indication of how the full game will run...

is it possible that this patch is an April Fool's joke? :D

ah ok... hehe i guess i need to try a monarch game. thanks for the info!

Do you feel that setting Barbarian Activity to Restless gives you a huge advantage over the AI? Usually on Regent level, i find it to be a challenge to keep up with the AI in terms of expansion. Scientifically, I generally stay head to head with them. However with Restless barbarians in my...

thanks a bunch! i was afraid to hear it was going to be complicated, :D

Everytime we play the Sword of the Shogun scenario, every tribe is in the same starting location and the land is identical. furthermore, we can't pick which civ we are starting with. (In MP, the person hosting inevitably becomes the Date, etc...) Anyway to make it random and play it like...

oops my bad! i guess it's correct then, since it's listed under the PTW section.

Hello, In the Intelligence section, Carthage is listed as Religious & Militaristic, when it is, in fact, Seafaring and Industrious, if i remember correctly. Just wanted to point that out. I didn't check all of them to see if there were other errors, but i noticed that because I used...