Recent content by atreas

You are certainly right on one point - the timeframe set is for Deity, not for King, because as you correctly point out AI doesn't have as much money on King (something that most Deity players have simply forgotten). Don't forget, though, that the goal of those guides is to show you how to...

This is indeed the crux of the issue, but there are more than one ways to build such an empire - and Civ IV flavor was neither the only nor the absolutely best. Maybe it is the one that fits certain play styles, but certainly not all. Being a strategist myself, I miss the sliders for sure -...

You don't need as much as you think. For example, the GM was the direct result of Mausoleum + Hanging Gardens (providing the Garden). As I said (remember, it was Emperor and you might have forgotten how easy this level seems when accustomed to higher difficulties) I went wonder spamming, and...

I wanted to play a relaxed game after a very tiring month of work, but it turned out to become a fast SV instead - with a few remarks on the general method. First of all the setting: since I was in a relaxed mood, I decided to lower the difficulty from my usual Immortal to Emperor. The idea...

So in other words you were wrong - there is one VC that existed in reality. But if you read a bit more carefully what I wrote you will understand that there is no point in finding subtle disagreements since basically we agree - civ is NOT a simulation. And certainly the main mechanism for...

I am not so sure we can agree on your statement. Historically, domination existed if you consider momentarily the known world (the fact that it couldn't be maintained for long is not an issue of the game, after all). But certainly all the others are game inventions - with cultural the more...

The peripheral cities can usually be taken through rotation, since they usually don't have very expanded borders and the CBs/XBs are in range. For the core cities, and especially the capital, the only way I have found is to build a citadel.

Of course civ was never a simulation (or a good simulation, if you prefer). It was always a game, and each version (after civ2) tries just to avoid the well known victory paths of previous versions. The major proof lies in the war system. For versions over versions they try (completely...

I think you didn't exactly get the meaning of my phrase: wide via wars, not wide via building cities yourself. Maybe it is a flaw of mine, but in standard map size I never feel the need (or have the ability) to initially build more than 4 cities myself - I usually get another 5-6 through puppets...

I like Tradition a lot (who doesn't?), but the Liberty tree is NOT only these things mentioned: 1. The extra hammers in all your cities is not something to be forgotten (and don't tell me about religions, since in that aspect you can also get extra food from them). The point is that with...

The benefits of the scout are indeed nice, but... First of all, in Immortal+ it is getting quite unlikely to get first to many goody huts - that's a 0-1 for the scout. Secondly, I think that the early scout isn't fitting with Liberty+rapid expansion (you certainly need the monuments much...

So the point seems to be: reword the player with most cities in culture (by not counting SP but points, rewords him again in faith (which is really an anomaly as well, for many reasons), and then DON'T reword the player with the most pop/buildings in science, because if they counted points he...

I agree 100%, and I almost always go for the 2nd approach. But I want just to add another general parameter that I use in the few cases I deviate from my favorite Liberty, which I feel it has some merit. The point is I look at the tiles of the capital (although with Liberty you go for many...

Maybe it is my English that are failing me. I ask why there is some anomaly between the various types of quests and I listen to nice things like "fair". Do you mean that the programmers thought of creating a more democratic (random) quest? Bah. Most probably they missed it IMO (as a...

^^Or (even worse) to be one turn away from a tech and one from Rationalism finisher. But that's exactly my point - and you are backing it up with your very argument - that it is random, while the other two quests are not. Unfair is not my problem, but why specifically in science quest to have a...