Recent content by Bloink

It is based on Rebel Sentiment, so yes, if you stop producing LB's the REF stops growing.

The AI does indeed start creating bells for a WoI almost immediately. I have had several games where the AI kicks off their WoI well before mine, though they tend to get their ass handed to them by their king. If another nation parks near any of my settlements I immediately take them out...

I have no proof but I think if the FF you turn down is not picked up by another country it will be available again if you drop below the FF points needed for it.

I bought my copy from Direct2Drive and have no issues. I highly doubt they would ship CD's that were infected anyways, sounds a personal problem unless you can produce links confirming.

Be sure you have somewhere for the exported item to be imported to. I've made that mistake more times than I can count.

There are a bunch of "How to" posts if you just poke around a bit.

I'd give yourself 30 years just to be safe. As you move up in difficulty the REF size increases so you'll need a buffer. I say years because it depends on the game speed you play at.

They leave that amount of the item in the city you are exporting from. So say if you are exporting food, it won't starve the poor city you are exporting from. I don't think it has an effect on importing, just exporting, but I could be wrong(I don't use that feature personally).

You'll find that if you have a few cannon and a couple dragoons you can just roll through the Spanish cities one at a time. I'd be sure to leave enough guns for at least one soldier in the settlements nearest their border for defense. I think you'll find fighting a war with the Eu's and...

This is just exploiting game mechanics, I wouldn't get used to it as a strategy, I'm quite sure it will be fixed in the first patch.

I was checking out Dales Patchmod and wasn't paying attention to the natives.....big mistake...

Naw, you can't remove buildings once they are there. It just takes practice to understand the resources, you have the basics down, just tweak the towns a bit more. Tip: I'd buy some cannons and make a couple dragoons and fight the Spanish. You'll get some free towns and be able to...

It seems to me that Firaxis put their development money into Revolutions for game consoles(came out about a month before Col) and only made Colonization to keep PC gamers appeased.

Ranches use food to produce horses, thus the starvation in your southern city. It would have been better to put the ranch/rancher in your northern city since it has a ton of food plots. Tip: You have alot of fur in your southern city, but you have no Fur Traders making coats. You have two...

Dang 926! Do you wait late game to declare or something(beyond 1725)? The game I just finished had the largest REF I have dealt with so far, 321. This was on Rev and still took 26 years(played on epic so double that for # turns) for the king to land all his troops. I even produced bells...