Recent content by arelius

This is not fact, mere observations on the game, I believe that in games this happens that I've noticed that the nation declaring war after a spy is sent is considered the agressor as far as your people are concerned, but your reputation will suffer, too. It always does when someone uncovers a...

Satchel wrote: ".... but if you do this, then you have no worker. So although you have an extra settler, it takes longer for your settlers to get to new city sites, and you can't improve the tiles around those new cities so they are slow to produce. IMO, your approach wastes the most...

When playing the Vikings, destroy commerce of your rivalling Civs by razing every port on their mainland. not only do they loose cites, they loose the ability to trade with any nation off their mainland! I've pushed Civs from the first place pedestal to raging ruins near the bottom with this...

When there's only 1 turn to an inventions pull the invention funding to as low a percentage as possible whilst still maintaining that 1 turn status. This will give you a great economical boost! I've received as much as 500 gold for one turn in medieval times:) Just don't forget to put it back...

When starting a game it's often the best distribution of wealth to give full throttle to inventions, especially if you have a road near a river. This will give you a critical 4-8 turns advantage at least on the particular invention.

Building the Palace improvement in any city is good as you can accumulate a lot of shileds in the city, then invent something that allowes you to construct a Wonder and switch. I've played this hundreds of times, building both Palace and Forbidden Palace in two cities and then steal two wonders...

In the begining of a game use your original worker to turn at least three tiles into tiles with road+improvement, build a settler and then join the original worker to the city and start building a second settler right away. This allows you to build 2 cities in the space of time where you would...