Recent content by Adino

Yea they should have 2 difficulties above Apollo, so people new to the series can work their way up. Regarding the AI tech, they either need a MASSIVE research bonus (x2?) to allow their willy nilly tech picking or pre scripted paths or both. The trouble is their early game is acceptable, but...

Yea the timer on Contact victories is horrid! I got my beacon up around turn 100 on Apollo and when I saw I still had 50% of the game left I got worried. I had a handful of defenders so I played it safe and declared war on everyone near by so they couldn't attack me (the dead don't attack). I...

Good catch I will fix that. As for uploading save states, I uploaded turn 42, 77, 100, and 132 which I setup so you just attack the city and win. The last one was modified for easy viewing. (you don't have 100 trade routes coming online, and its setup on the last turn which I didn't have...

Optimally I place my cities planning 2 movements. This lets me collect from tiles 3 away, and support a size 14 city. I don't move unless either the city is working all its land or I have built my core buildings and nothing is urgent. (Trade depot and health buildings) From final location I buy...

Detailed is a basic guide that can be modified to work for all victory conditions, you will win at the earliest turn going domination but your turns will take 20 min each if you go that route. This guide assumes: Apollo, Quick, Small as map settings but will adapt to any setup. Your goal with...

Just finished my first game, I played 1 level below Apollo and um I felt like I was stomping on baby slugs. They didn't so much put up a fight as roll over and die when I looked at them. First impression: I had a size 1 city with 135 production! I got the city up and tossed 4 trade routs his...

I build my first fence as my next production in my capital after it available. Those sea dragons and krakens love to eat my trade convoys and I just cant kill the dang things for quite some time. Plus even once I can they still swim up to my shore all the time, they die quick but they exist and...

Here is a chronicle of my first game of Civ BE Terran Small Gemini I started picking the Africans thinking because of their food bonus they would be good at getting new cities started and growing, I also picked engineers because I thought the extra hammers would help me get a new city...

ELZ I recommend against getting the clinic, two soldiers can stand against most alien forces. One can get overwhelmed and killed. Also I like to research the following techs on every affinity. Pioneering Planetary Survey (Unless I don't need it, map dependent) Ecology (then build 1 fence, this...

In my first game: Standard, Gemini, Small, Turn 250 I had 2000 research :D . In my second game: Marathon, Apollo, Small, Turn 400, I had 400 research.

I have discovered the best method to play this game is to go wide, really wide. My first game was on Gemini, quick, standard, Small. I noticed just by accident I had created a city with over 370 production and 200 bonus food. The city was not that special I had 1 terascape, a beacon, a...

thanks for the advice and I have only played as japan, and it was on king difficulty so a cake walk. I think i will try a deity game out with japan which should i use horses or swordsmen? Swordsmen upgrade to samurai but it sounds like horses are better overall.

You can skip large potions of the tech tree in this version of CIV. And I am sure their are some amazing exploits you can pull off. I am just getting into the game, (2 games so far) I just dominated a king game with my "samurai rush" I would recommend it to anyone who plays on chieftain level or...

I like the idea of building wealth to upgrade thanks.

In my games I get lot of military units that are highly promoted, however I stagger at the upgrade cost when i reach the next tech. Is it worth upgrading my units? Especially City Defenders? Usually I don't bother upgrading unless I have to choose between that and losing a city. So what do...