Recent content by ArchGhost

Well, the forced limitation of 1UPT makes the bubble markers actually work effectively in Civ5/6. They don't make as much sense coming to Civ4 where any number of units can be on a single tile, which makes mousing-over more or less a requirement when dealing with stacks. The UI of Civ4 also...

I would say Communism just because it's more or less how I wish how freely expanding could be in Civ4 at all times, not just later. Biology would be the pick for me then, tile improvements are one of the most coveted things I pursue in this game and Civ6, having 3f1h plains and the equivalent...

I'm trying to get into Civ6 recently but after a month or two I am looking for some QoL improvements, especially to the UI. I found this thread but it's a couple years old: Seems like it has some useful stuff but I am going in totally blind like when i first started with Civ4. Any of that...

Yes I'm 100% sure it's simply my mishandling and not understanding the game. I was barely floating in the black at 4 cities very early on, put down a few road tiles and went broke. Oops. I am very accommodated to straight up killing my economy in Civ4 so I wasn't hesitant about it here and I...

You likely won't be able to. You can only get rid of cities via razing or disbanding on cultural flip without WBing it away. AIs won't raze a city unless they are forced to (the city has never grown to size 2) and even barbs are likely to keep it if it's got population, so just leaving it...

It's the other way around, actually. Justinian has Christianity as his favored religion, and so he pulls hard to Theology to land it. Civic weights for the AIs are more about whether they will switch out of them or not. Saladin for example is also a religious zealot with Theocracy as his...

It cannot START to plot ON YOU. It can: -start plotting on you BEFORE a treaty is in force and stay plotting until it ends, then DoW (only if it could possibly DoW someone else in the meantime) -start plotting on another valid target AFTER a treaty is already in force, then switch targets to...

Judging from the no reply despite the pretty gentle responses, seems likely. Definitely has the "arrogant not wanting seem naive" bit down. If not for the disclaimer he/she had never played it before I would say 100% troll. Maybe like 95% with the disclaimer :D I want to believe it could...

I picked up CIv5+6 with all DLCs for a steal thanks to Gaben this sale season (about $45 all told) and have been trying to get into Civ6 again. I really want to like it (it's such a pretty and crisp looking game) but I keep hitting a wall in terms of enthusiasm to play it. So many decisions...

Also note that BUG mod won't show you if he's plotting if you you only know him alone (red fist reads directly off the 'WHEOOHRN" in the diplo screen) since he has no other potential target from your perspective. Not that it would be much help if he daggers you, but sometimes they plot for 1-2...

Lincoln looks so...intense. It's usually the other way around with cover art between USA and Japan, they tend to make cutesy or childish characters in Japanese art look aggressive or edgy for overseas releases.

Getting around to trying out Civ5 and Civ6 now that I got them in this year's steam sale after like 8 years of going hard on Civ4. I've had civ6 on console but really only messed with it a bit because of controller drift issues and very long load times on XBone. Throwing out the whole 1UPT...

high hammer cost, the happiness is too conditional and not really needed -- immediately or later on in hammer economy -- especially for 150h for typically 1-2 happy faces, doesn't work on build wealth, increase to yield is dependent on the slider setting, merchant slots mean nothing with access...

just a personal observation about raging barbs from watching my own AI only stuff: It seems to only really delay the expansion phase for the affected AIs. But then they explode and somewhat make up for it later so it doesn't have that much of an effect on these AIs. Mostly from watching...

Low Sea levels + an additional AI. Everybody comfortably hits like 10-15 cities unless they get boxed hard, it makes end game empires more imposing. otherwise everything standard I'll play any map script that eliminates "islandly" crapola because I find hopping them tedious and barb galleys...