Recent content by baptismbyfire

Currently America is closest in terms of culture victory, but it won't get there since no country has ever achieved Civ victory conditions. Probably the only region left where they aren't listening to American rock music and wearing American blue jeans by the majority is the Islamic world. I...

You can buy units and buildings in puppets with Venice, so they are definitely useful. You can peacefully take a city state half a world away and then start buying yourself an army to dominate from there. No need to build and then sail all the way across the oceans. That's just one example...

Yeah, but I used the Great Generals for expanding borders of City-States that I puppeted with a MoV, since Venice was on an island small enough that it could take the entire thing through regular border growth.

Was there a patch that changed Venice's game play? I played that game when BNW was first released and don't remember ever seeing that message. However, I barely cared about building anything but wonders, so I may not have been aware of the effect on production. I just bought all the buildings.

I had that problem with the Scramble for Africa scenario and was really puzzled. I just went with it and finished it out, but it was annoying having built up so much happiness for nothing.

I did a water/archipelago huge map with Venice and fielded my entire army with only naval units and eventually air units. By the end, it was probably 70 naval units strong since I had nothing better to do with all that trade route money than to keep on buying more units, city-state allies to...

Totally agreed. I made the mistake of making such a promise once, but without intentionally doing anything, my city expanded and they considered it breaking the promise. Essentially it is a promise that one can never agree to and you have no choice but to annoy your neighbor.

I have to agree with everyone who puts science first. I never have problems with anything else because science lets me get to techs with the buildings and abilities that allow me to have more happiness, gold, faith, culture, whatever, than I know what to do with. Not to mention the wonders...

I've got somewhere between 600 and 700 hours. Like most, I've actually won more games than I have the achievement for, but I get bored, especially in domination games when it is really just a matter of time. The full list as to which I have the achievement: England Polynesia Maya Russia...

I really don't see it as a problem. I've warmongered in many games and suffered no unbearable penalties for it. If I am powerful enough, no civ is going to dare DoW me, so my trade routes are protected. If my trade routes are protected, I have the CS allies needed to prevent any embargo...

Venice feels to me like one of the most powerful civs. The money you earn is insane. Especially if you also build Colossus. Who cares about building anything? I just buy everything. You can puppet a CS near any foe and just start cranking out units on the same continent. You have to make...

Yeah, Firaxis seems to be doing fine! I'm also on a Mac, so that does play into my decision, too. Even if I wasn't, I will not waste money on a game that the developers know full well isn't ready to be released and doesn't have the important features that that the developers know it will have...

Totally agree. With all the great mods out there, I'm going to keep myself very busy until they release the first expansion for VI.

1069. You think "America" could have liberated the Babylonians and revived the Empire when they captured Baghdad from "Arabia," reducing their warmonger status for starting a war on false pretenses and against world opinion.

It's pretty annoying as a way to milk the fans to the point that I didn't bother to buy V until G&K, just kept playing IV until then. Just put out something awesome to begin with and then find new ways to make it even better. They don't need to get rid of the features they have right now...