Recent content by Bostock

Wow, I would hate playing with even a tenth that many self-imposed rules. I hereby grant you the requestetd permission not to use stricter rules, though.

Barbs get the best tech that anyone in the world has - as soon as anyone can build line infantry, the barbs can too. People keep mentioning Hammurabi because Babylon's very unusual special traits surrounding teching mean he can have advanced tech ridiculously early, even in the hands of the AI...

Population has no effect on the output of campuses.

Since we're necroing... I think simply not having mods block achievements - the Civ 6 way - was the right call. I mean, there's no practical way to block cooked starts, and those can have a stronger achievement-easing effect as most mods. And in any case, achievements aren't really a...

Although I prioritize more water over less, it all gets settled sooner or later (until I get sick of running Colonization), short of some terrible un-aqueduct-able spot, which I know my neighbor will be more than happy to eventually settle for me anyway. I prioritize better first rings over...

I find (on Immortal) that I can usually get away with being a little less cautious than most of the advice here (and a lot less cautious than some of the more extreme ones), as long as I open with two units (typically slinger -> warrior but sometimes the more adventurous scout -> slinger), I...

On the other hand... Sometimes 5-6 tiles is the only path to fresh water. Sometimes major adjacencies gained outweigh minor adjacencies lost. Sometimes closer spacing won't make room for another city. Sometimes an extra tile away puts a supertile into the first or second ring. <small>and some...

One other reason to go with 4-5 tiles apart: since cities don't start acquiring third-ring tiles until the second ring is full, getting third-ring tiles (that aren't second-ring tiles of other cities) means either throwing tons of money at purchasing tiles or waiting for-ehhhh-ver.

That doesn't work for me, unfortunately. Pressing Restore Defaults in the main Create Game screen after having changed SetupParameters.xml does nothing. Clicking the one in the advanced setup screen also does nothing. A redditor reported the same three years ago...

Hello there! Apologies if this is a dumb question, but what do I change (assuming it's possible to do this) to make the Create Game screen offer me Emperor level, Epic speed, and Standard size by default?

In full: "Build at least 6 cities . Press Ctrl R to turn on resource bubbles . Build 1.5 workers per city . Check F9 Demographics often . Stay near the top in soldiers" ...But that was quite oriented towards Civ IV. (For example the 6 cities is a reference to the minimum needed for some...

I asked a friendly Brazil to do that once, he told me that if I was foolish enough not to want the one true faith he would humor me, and then he proceeded to completely ignore his promise! Was it because he was doing the converting with a GP instead of missionaries?

I am still waiting for the Mother of all Complaint Threads - "I had to attack a CS-gifted MoV to prevent a diplomatic victory, and now I'm labeled a warmonger!"

Pepí&#269;kova. :-) (With podiums full of Slavíks.)

Perhaps it's time for "rate the BNW AIs"? I think what Greece does right is - * he doesn't attack CS's and is a bit less likely to demand tribute from them, so he doesn't step on other AIs' toes that way, * (in BNW) He doesn't rack up CS kills or poorly-chosen AI city kills, so he's not saddled...