Recent content by Abegweit

Yeah. To be more precise, modern computers are only slightly faster than those of 20 years ago. The difference is that today's computers are much more compact and cheaper. They also have far more memory, multiple cores and infinitely superior graphics. Today's machines can do four to eight...

Put lipstick on a Pig and it's still a Pig. The horrible Civ5 notion of "tall vs wide" is just that - horrible. The fact that most of the map is still empty at the end of the game is an insult to the concept of Civ. As for modding, I don't know about Civ5, but I do know that Civ2 had better...

An army takes one spot for each unit in the army and one foe the army itself. So if you want to transport a full army on a galleon, put two units in the army, ship it to the destination and add the other two units when it gets there.

What is an "urban improvement"? There is an ambition which requires six of them.

Yes. There is no penalty for going negative in stuff. Kinda like Modern Monetary Theory.

While you are right that it understands ZOC and elevation, it simply does not understand how to coordinate its units. They all do their own thing and it is easy to pick them off one by one. It also doesn't understand that damaged units should be retreated. That's also true of the Civ4 AI but...

As I said earlier, Old World is an excellent game. This is not surprising since it was designed by the same person as Civ4, Soren Johansen. Old World is a war game. You can't win it peacefully. The Orders mechanic continually forces difficult choices on the player, especially at the higher...

The combat system in Humankind is definitely its best feature. Unfortunately the AI has no clue how to do it. I think it should be a lot of fun in multiplayer.

It's truly amazing that Civ5 and Civ6 have worse UIs than Civ4. I mean, shouldn't people learn from what went on before them?

I own both Humankind and Old World. Old World is my current go-to game. I love it. Humankind is shallow and boring. It is a game without a soul.

I pretty much agree with you about the civ changes. That was one of the things which attracted me to humankind. Now, however, I view it as something of an annoyance since I have to figure who the AIs are every few dozen turns. Perhaps this could be fixed with an improvement to the UI. In any...

@snakeboy I agree with everything you said. The artwork is utterly gorgeous. I just love watching this game. I also agree with every one of the objections you brought. Unfortunately some of them are not going to be fixed. They are not going to reduce the number of districts, for example. I also...

MoO I is profound in its simplicity. That is its greatest strength.

My understanding is that MoO II was really more a sequel to Master of Magic more than MoO I. And everyone says that MoO III destroyed the franchise. There is also a remake from about 2016. Apparently it is basically MoO II with updated graphics.

I loved every edition of Civ since 1991 with the exception of V. Put hundreds of hours into playing each of them. I now only play IV and VI, probably more of the latter. However, these days I have recently gotten addicted to a video game from 1993 which I only just discovered this day and I play...