Recent content by AfterShafter

Faith is the "currency" of religion, but other than needing it to get your religion initially, it isn't necessarily required for religion to do what it does. It helps you buy great people as you said, get great prophets by having enough of it unused, purchase some things from your choices of...

1) Your pantheon is sort of built in to your religion. If your city is your religion, it should get the benefit of your pantheon. I *think* this holds true of foreign religions as well - as in, if Bismark founds Christianity and it spreads to your cities, those cities have his pantheon - but...

I see... Raging barbarians, angry barbarians, contented barbarians, lethargic barbarians, no barbarians. Not opposed to the idea at all - I actually preferred Civ IV with no barbs, and Civ V with raging - but I doubt it'll ever happen.

True. Also, nothing has been done about the issue yet. As such, I say keep 'em coming. I'm an Austria fan, but I do tend to agree that their UA is a bit over the top all considered. An increasing cost for acquiring city states seems reasonable, seeing as each one is usually a good city...

Only time I would even consider quitting if I don't found a religion is if I'm playing a religion oriented Civ and that was the game I wanted to play. Playing some of my preferred generalist Civs - France, Egypt, Austria, etc - I prefer to found a religion but I don't lose sleep when I don't...

Voted Maya, even though it's a tough call between them and the Inca, and the Iroquois are actually my single favourite Civ to play. Just wanted to say, not including America in this thread is ridiculous. Whatever your personal take on it is, America is a civilization that was born in the...

I find the upgrade path to be worth it if I'm playing a militant game. If I can recall, iron working is along the way to metal casting or whatever tech gives you the +2 production building, which is a significant boon if you're going militant. Add to that that the swordsmen upgrade path is one...

It really depends on what you want the city to do. Gold cities will need some food and lots of posts, specialist cities need tons of food, and production cities need a good amount of food but obviously with production squares. Only the first needs lots of posts. Generalist cities can work...

I can't say I agree with point 1 Lyon. As it is, you essentially have created an odd man out regular great person with the great artist... You can create a super tile, start a golden age - albeit a buffed one - and it lacks the third ability that other regular great people have. Also, as per...

Why would excess GGs be useless? No rule other than convention saying two great people can't have variants of the same ability. Heck, they all have one common ability - golden age. If both great generals and great artists could do a culture bomb, would that actually break the game in any way...

Yeah, I believe you're right erebos. But again, that's very late in the game. With a peaceful game, when I DID use culture bombs, I'd oftentimes place one of my last planned expansion locations near the borders of a relatively non-warlike Civ and drop the culture bomb to nab a particularly...

If the culture bomb was an ability that was so bad as to leave the great artist useless, why bother moving it even with the changes to the GA as they are now? Obviously wouldn't unbalance the GA to leave it on there. And, I used it in games where I was going for peaceful victories, albeit rarely.

Well Lyon, to quote myself concerning great generals, they're "great persons you get almost exclusively through combat." That's pretty accurate. In a significant majority of peacemonger games I go to war, but if I play my cards right, it's only at the very bitter end of the game when the AI is...

Yeah, my one regret about great generals taking over the culture bomb is, what was oftentimes a peacetime "weapon" of expansion/border grabbing is now only available from great persons you get almost exclusively through combat. Peace types have more to do in the expansion in general, but still...

Oddly enough, I find this iteration of Civ a lot more early rush unfriendly. With decent (IE - not all plains) terrain, I've beaten my fair share of early rushes like that with 2 or 3 archers. Makes it much safer to be an early builder. Simply put, if the AI sends fewer than 6 or so units...