Recent content by Bruin.Bound

I broke my laptop and haven't played in a month.

Loius will declare at pleased just for the sake of annoying you. He has done it to me often even when it means his instant death.

So what exactly is "mechanical infantry" supposed to be? It looks like a tank to me, but doesn't use oil so apparently it has no motor. Is it powered by the Fred Flinstone pick it up and run with your feet technique? I actually don't mind from a game standpoint, as it keeps the non-oil players...

Agreed, I also would ignore a second city, pump out those chariots and you should be in good shape. Hopefully, no one else is close and you'll be able to grab those flood plains there.. or better yet, maybe she'll build some nice cities for you there herself.

Agreed, what I mean is something like you have 1000 GNP and you have one strong competitor who has something like 4500. I've been in this situation before and I wasn't able to keep up when it came to late game tech'ing. However, a lot of their GNP goes to waste as they don't specialize their...

I love playing with a small empire. Being successful depends on your opponents however. If one is carving out a huge empire you are gonna have problems. However, if it remains relatively peaceful, you can win with a 6 city empire. I had a game as Darius on Immortal where I had 6 cities, and 2...

Was a space race victory impossible? Your competitors aren't usually great tech'ers (though this is deity) but you seemed in decent tech shape from the earlier screenshot. If you had just went for peace after any DoW and given in to demands, do you think you could of scraped one out? Also, would...

I'm looking forward to this, the more deity walkthroughs the better, especially with someone as experienced doing it. I don't think I'm ready to go from immortal to deity myself, but maybe I'll still try this out as a learning experience. I've also been wanting to play as Hammurabi so its...

You should settle your first cities near food or resources, or maybe a blocking city that wont be so fantastic. If a city has a lot of hills and enough food to work mined hills, then make it a production one. If it has tons of food, make it a GP farm. If it is an old jungle site, or something...

How many times has a random event actually given a victory that would not have been achieved otherwise? Few times I assume, such a small percentage that I actually find it cool that everything fell into place like that in these rare instances. Its called a random event, some of them are based on...

But fogbusting is to stop normal barbarians, not barbarian uprisings. So there is no right thing you can do, apart from defend your cities well.

The screenshot I believe said a spy had been captured, or at least that was the empression I was under. If it wasn't the case, then I agree that its a dumb trigger to the event. I don't see an event putting you 8 techs and 4 cities behind, the only one I can think of that would have a drastic...

Thanks for the link Bin. Reading up through it, most seem reasonable, but that tsunami event is horribly brutal. Destroying small coastal cities and ravaging the rest would have been pretty crazy.

As someone with a math degree, stuff like that is pretty pointless looking back. I hate teachers that give you gruesomely long problems that really aren't teaching you anything. You either know the method, or you don't, have to take seven derivatives of something is the same as one derivative...

How does it "destroy" a game. Maybe it changes it, but I don't see how anything can destroy a game... would someone like to list all the broken events just so I can analyze them? Also, what is the tsunami event? I never had it, is it turned off in 3.19, or did you do it manually? Either way...