Recent content by Cadde

As far as i am concerned a square is several miles across. A city on a square is a small city on a huge plot of land. A unit is actually several thousand men. Spearmen can win against tanks in very specific circumstances, for starters they have to get the element of surprise to get close...

The first thing that comes to mind is, you take a vassal in capitulation. Then find out you never wanted that vassal so you cancel the deal... Now, there are two ways this could go: You are the one cancelling the vassal. You suffer a +2 :mad: penalty in all your cities for X number of...

Well, in reply to all three previous posters. Game balance is good when there's no way to have an "I win button". Vassals are merely a static annoyance, not game balance at all. If i had known i couldn't cancel the vassal i wouldn't accept it and instead let the war run for the remainder of the...

This thread is very old but relevant to my situation. I was burned by the Vassal system in the past where i accepted a capitulation and vassal from a civ that had one city. His city was on the other side of a HUGE continent and even worse, there where two friggin powerblocks between his city and...

On a side note, religion spreads :) and if you are the founder of a religion you can also get lots of :commerce: if you spread that religion. And if you DON'T want a "boring" diplomatic victory you should be the first to build the AP with the religion you want to have as your state religion...

Well, i know as much about it as i could find by doing a google search. So you are saying you knew more about it than me but still chose not to give the full details on how it works and how it can be prevented? If so, why exactly? Yeah ok, if i forgot to make that clear then it was a...

Yeah, obviously if you are hated before the game even starts then there is pretty much no point in playing with diplomatic victories on. But the same can be said for conquest. If someone plays a race that has overpowered units in the earliest stages of the game and you start next to him you...

Didn't say they won. What i said was they got what they WANTED. Which is something that cannot be said for I-am-celt... Not trying to sugar coat it, trying to get an opinion across that if it's in the victory conditions you either deal with it or face the possibility of losing to it. Because...

I just read a few of the first posts so i might not have all the details but to me i see it as legit and while the AI player won the people who voted for the AI did so to ensure i-am-celt couldn't win the game. So neither of the actual players won the game per definition but the majority vote...

A civ asked me to declare was on another. I didn't want the -1 hit from the civ that asked me and the target civ isn't my favorite one anyways. I was already preparing to wage a war with him later on. But it turns out that i had a bunch of really good trade routes with the target civ and it...

Just off the top of my head... Expand more Build more gold cities (grassland only. If possible, Coastal too with only 2 water tiles.) Only have enough units to work the land and defend your territory barely. (Try to stay inside the "free support" limits) Trade technologies you don't want...

Yeah, reading up on what a pandemic actually is having gotten the wrong idea from playing the game of how they work. Epidemic is the more historically accurate term for it and it's only when i spreads to other locales (cities and nations) that it is a pandemic. Now with that said, why not...

Short of destroying all roads connecting cities whenever a pandemic strikes one. Is there any other way of re-allocating trade routes manually to prevent pandemics from spreading? On a side note, while i love the realistic aspect of the pandemic system, it feels rather harsh to not be able to...

Yep, that was the point. It's possible if you either rewrite the game executable from scratch. Or you disassemble it and make the changes to ALL pointers to allow 64 bit operation. The first option being the easier one and has real world examples of being done in the past. (Open TTD) But...

Why not just make it an espionage mission. Load a spy onto a sub and cause an "accident" to happen to the other sub. If the mission fails then you get punished. If the mission succeeds then the sub dies and you can then choose to profit off the situation by providing aid to the other nation or...