Recent content by Alatar1313

I recently finished a Venice game on deity and didn't have that much trouble getting equal on tech around the industrial era. I was behind up until the mid-industrial era but after that I was ahead. Just have to make sure to use some of your obscene number of trade routes to shove food into...

What is still not clear from this: Do greater disparities in influence levels cause multiple units of influence? I.e., Exotic vs unknown shows 1 little symbol ("unit of pressure" according to the tooltip) per civ against me. If someone was Familiar vs Unknown, would it show 2 and count for...

Okay. I think I *maybe* figured it out. I see that in my game Arabia, Mongolia, Morocco, and Iroquois have Autocracy; Portugal has Freedom; and I have Order. The Culture Victory table looks like this: Civilization Tourism Ideology Public Opinion Arabia 30...

So I figured I'd jump in and try out the new BNW stuff. Dropped it down to Immortal and selected Shoshone. Built 14 cities, took a few more in war. Built nothing related to tourism; didn't even build the 3 guilds. Got up to the modern era and selected Order. Rejoiced at the amount of happiness I...

Well, it enhances your game for all civs after you take the city in which the AI built that new wonder...

^ That. Mounted archery is pretty amazingly overpowered. Add Egypt for also having chariot archers that do not require horses and thus are spammable units with nearly the ranged attack strength of composite bows...but for cheaper, with up to 5 movement sometimes, and at Wheel instead of...

Yeah I love using citadels this way on deity. I often take one city from the AI then use the GG that spawned from the combat to press further in. I get my healing bonus from being in my own territory plus full movement bonuses from the road that already links that city to their other cities. I...

Battering Rams upgrade to trebuchets.

When I try to play multiplayer with 2 players, 6 AI on a standard size map, around the mid-1800s it starts resynching every 2 turns. When this happens, neither of us can move units until one of us leaves and rejoins. We've tried hosting on each of the different computers, tried running dx9, and...

My brother and I like to play together over our physical LAN. We play on standard size maps (we'd like to use bigger ones but they don't tend to work in MP). Unfortunately, once we get so far in the game (early 1800s), it starts giving us sync issues every 2 turns. Every time it resyncs...

What about the AIs makes them zombies compared to single player? Just the fact that they don't propose deals to the players? Also, I would think that things like the number of bonus units on higher difficulties would be similarly curtailed if that were the reason for cutting the gold output. I...

Huh that's annoying. Is there any way to fix this?

Okay, so I've been watching a lot of videos recently and I've moved up pretty smoothly from King to Immortal over the past few days. However, there's always been something different in my games and I can't quite figure out why: the AI never has any money and they often are neutral or worse...

Thanks for all the info everyone has provided so far! A couple more questions: 1. Do you bother with Oracle or Great Library in capitol or any other city? I've been trying to pick up one of the two but it's a lot of turns that my capitol isn't producing settlers. On the other hand, if I...

Is the new Representation worth taking? I'm (sorta kinda when I get around to it) working on a spreadsheet to give me hard numbers based on the culture formulae but I figure I'll ask here in the mean time. It seems like, aside from the GA, it gives me a discount based on number of cities but...