Recent content by Bagfran

It's also a matter of careful timing. For example, if you are not in a position to win by the next World Congress, and don't have a lot more Diplomatic Favor than anyone else (and I mean a lot), then vote against yourself: i.e. use just one vote to have DV points taken away from you, because all...

The Oracle, to help me collect all those Great People, and then the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus to get the best return on my investment with Great Engineers! I'm quite attached to Petra too, under the right circumstances. I've never yet built the Great Bath or Colosseum, as there always seems to...

I have that enabled, and I still forget to check - hopeless! Never a truer word spoken! And to think, I even sold Genghis those horses in the first place...I'm not doing that again either!

Yes, me too, but I thought I had finally learned my lesson - it seems not!

I had a situation yesterday that resulted in a 'sod it' quit, although it was entirely my fault, so I was more annoyed at myself than anything! I had a nice little game going as Sweden: I was happy with the terrain available to me, I had three cities in place and there was room to expand...

The Good 1) The Loyalty mechanics - fun to exploit, and allows empires to grow organically. 2) Civs that require an unconventional approach, such as Mali and Maori. 3) Diplomatic Victory - maybe I'm just weird, but while I agree that the Diplomacy system is flawed, I do enjoy figuring out my...

Now, I wish I'd thought of that myself (I'm still pretty raw at this)!

Yep, this is exactly what I had in mind when I opted for a 'Legendary' start...

My local wonder - Oxford University - is already included, but I'd like to propose a second Oxford landmark, the Headington Shark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headington_Shark):

It was a tough choice between Science and Culture for me, but I usually choose Culture over Science in practice, so that's how I voted. I accidentally won a couple of Diplomatic Victories recently, which is rather ironic, given that whenever I've set out to go down that route it's never worked...

It's a compulsion! :D

Because I'm a bit strange, and I make spreadsheets for everything, I've actually been keeping track of each opposing Civ in each game I play. So far I have played 35 games, and Germany has cropped up in 13 of those. Next come Aztec, Persia, Russia and USA, each with 9 appearances. Most of the...

Whatever Civ I'm playing, I like to spread the gospel of turtle worship, because turtles are cool. I call it Chelonism (named for Chelonii, the order to which turtles belong in scientific classification), and use the turtle symbol of course.

OK, I see - thanks very much for explaining! I shall try this out in my next game - like everyone else though, I'm currently waiting for the patch.

I'm curious about this approach, as I always go all out to claim as much territory/resources as I can, as soon as possible. I'm pretty new to the game though, so I'm still learning! Can I just clarify please: are you saying that each of the first 9 citizens needs to yield 2+ production each?