Recent content by Bureaucracy

Damn, I was reading in team game #5 where Acid said he was probably going to quit for good after that. Looks like he wasn't kidding.

Reading the comments on how over-powered Cho-ko-nos are has me laughing. At one time the forum was full of how over powered the Pratorians were, then the next month it was how over-powered red coats were. Every month it's something else, isn't it? At least we finally got out of the phase now...

I found it odd that NE requires nothing. And at one time, didn't the HE require 6 barracks?

I also would like to check out Acid's games. Link doesn't work for me either. I saw one of his deity games where he got his ass kicked, but who can blame him. Sadly, he has been missing for half a year now. I suspect he had to go back to college/university for fall term, maybe around...

I had a game where Willem was sharing a religion I did not like to see him doing. Since his favourite civic is Free Regilion, I gifted him liberalism the instant I got it. He didn't switch. I waited a turn, thinking there must be a 1 turn wait delay. He didn't switch. More turns go...

How can u tell his research is too low just because he is at 50%? I've seen people run at 0% and still do fine.

I have a habbit of accidentaly gifting major techs to civs that every is mad at. Then they get mad at me too. Another dumb mistake, is telling my worker/settler to move from point A, to point B. Then forget that the design of the game is not smart enough to make the worker/settler stear away...

You are certainly right, that losing 5 settlers can hurt your expansion. But on the other hand, who can build 5 more cities from the start, and not run their economy into the ground by doing so? Of course, the math isn't so straight forward. Some Civs get settler building bonuses, and...

If he is doing a wonder economy then that is not a good choice. Computers will obsolete a lot of heavy stuff he has in his capital.

That is not proof. The AI could have used gold or a GE to rush it, even a golden-age is possible. And maybe they switched to OR after you last checked. The manual throws people off because it says there is no wonder bonus on deity. So they think there is no speed difference, but that is not...

Thanks anyway Darrell for bringing up that link. I had never seen a "team" game before. I had thought that term only came into existence for on-line pre-made alliances. Where there are more team games on that level? It's too bad they got crushed, but it was fun reading through it when we...

This one bugs me to death. When a bunch of top players, get together with the AI coders (the ones who know exactly how the AI functions, and how to exploit it the most), and they still end up getting their asses kick. I should add, got their asses kicked while starting on an optimum start, and...

One question. If you are playing marathon speed and starting today, but getting BtS on Friday, does that not mean you will probably end up not completing this game? :) Unless you decide to keep BtS in the box for a while, which I highly doubt.

A few things you guys are missing. AI values techs a little bit smarter than they did in Civ III. If there is a wonder still around for that tech, they really guard it like mad. But trying to think in terms of beaker for beaker must be adjusted for each level you play at. This is because...

I also have had that problem since day one. Very big maps cause very big lag-times. My solution is to not play these types of maps. I also find that re-booting once you hit the industrial/modern age will speed things up a noticeable difference too. I suspect there are a lot of memory leaks...