Recent content by AnotherJon

This depends alot on cicrumstance, in general the more aggressively you pursue a domination win the more valuable having the next tech now is whereas the longer the game lasts the better the payoff of "later". In specific circumstances having the payoff sooner may pay off in the long run - if...

tbh, looking back I am a little surprised as well, probably in too much of a rush to properly evaluate the sites. wrt York I guess, as you said, I just wanted acess to the copper sooner, though this was not really important in practice. I had hoped to eventually add a second city picking up...

I have noticed the potential of selling techs to backwards civs for 200-300 gold every few turns :mischief:.

26 Male UK Started playing SMAC in '99 Civ III since 2001. Civ IV.

Rome. Caesar is to date the only person to attack me in the ancient era (and he nearly won thanks to his praetorians). Honourable mention for the crusader Isabella though.

This is my first gotm. I have played successfully at Prince level before though and didn't anticipate too many problems in winning my game. I tend to vary my approach between peaceful builder and aggressive warmonger games. In this case I took what I regard at the 'safe' option and decided to...

I agree wholeheartedly that Civ4 is a much better game than Civ3 and note that some of the improvements bare an uncanny similarity to ideas proposed your document :). Looking back, the most fun I had with Civ3 was when I was still poor at the game and could lose at something approaching...

And she was so because Alexander was before her. Though they were both ethnic Greeks.

The only no upkeep civic you can have is slavery. The savings on the rest must amount to something.

Good idea, being alone on an island is a huge disadvantage on higher difficulties where you need tech trading to keep up with the AI hive mind.

The AI will often attack you if your power score is low relative to theirs. Regarding the repeatability of the attack, perhaps the AI had been waiting on researching guilds so that he could send knights at you?

Any of warrior/scout/worker depending on starting techs and whether the worker would have anything to do by the time he is completed.

Yet the only strategy I have seen posted for beating deity at standard settings relies on the potential advantages of a coastal start ;) . http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148242

I agree that the system is good. The op states that he is breaking even at 20-30%. This seems reasonable given that he will surely soon outpace the AI with so many cities (or maybe not - I haven't played Immortal so feel free to correct my ignorance).

I think you are absolutly right. You will need the tech hive mind to compete.