Recent content by Capn Charlie

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I always looked at the +3 happiness and thought that the funny part, I just figured that bathhouses were basically upscale brothels, and the 1 unhealthiness came from venereal diseases.

Wonky religious devotion has its downside. Ever do any research on the catacombs of the real world? These places are truly terrifying by modern codes of hygiene and body disposal. The stench was unimaginable, but there was no better alternative in the minds of the people. Burning was...

I just saw that, a handy mention, might get some traffic. At times being mentioned on PA is almost as good as a DDoS attack, which can be interesting to see how it turns out. Unfortunately he seemed to have no real interest in playing it, but that's alright I guess.

As, um, neat as the Grand Menagerie is in theory, in practice it is either useless, or annoying, or on very rare occasion, a happy anomaly. I'd much rather see it reworked into something more genuinely useful. Perhaps a wonder with the prereq of any, oh, say, two or three animals, and make...

Well, civ is a game of abstractions, I don't view me the player as representing just the leader, but more of being a benevolent force that guides my civ to where I want it to go y a variety of abstract means, such as causing a popular uprising that shifts the government to a pacifistic...

When I played the illians, I turned all the land into snow and ice that I could, when I played malakim, I turned everything I wasn't using into desert, it just seemed to make sense, and lordy it . .. .. .. .ed over the AIs, so I'd love to see them return the favor. That'd be great.

Oh, it'd be easy enough to just cheat it where I want it, or pop disciples from lairs (which I think is infinitely cheesier than getting to pick where I put the holy city when I research it first). I was just wondering exactly why it works the way it does, and if there was a particular...

I was wondering lately, is there a specific reason why religions found in random cities and never your capital? Ok, in so uncertain terms, I like to found a bunch of religions for mana and gold, and would like them all in my god king capital with the brewing house and the bazaar of mammon...

Oh, that's a long and complicated background held together with unicorn farts and pixie dust, I was hoping they were just hemovores. This works too, though. And I do like themes where the taint is not one of disease, or mutation, but one of morality.

Oh, . .. .. .. . the Hippus. I hate being next to these guys. It's like I'm just not allowed to have improvements, ever. Or workers. Or found a new city without it being a twenty unit tall stack guarding the settler. Or I can warrior spam them and get back to maybe playing the game...

I once painstakingly acquired bowyers rather early in a game, amurites for firebows, and suddenly I get the library/orb event for a free tech, and pop precision since it is the most expensive. SO it's like turn a hundred and something, and I have fireballing marksmen. Won the game for me...

I'd rather see the grigori given a civ style great commander type counter that spits out adventurers occasionally as you do certain things. Explore lairs, lose units, get in and out of wars, all kinds of crap like that. Except that since you get more of them, they start as hero units of a...

Just recently an archer turned longbowman turned crossbowman with guerilla I and II, city defender I through III, combat I through V, drill I through IV, blitz, the defensive strike promotions, and the +40% bonus promotions for everything. He just stood up on his city on the hill, and entire...

As cool as I think stoneskin firebows are, I'd almost rather see a similar unit with stoneskin available to the dwarves in lieu of their missing longbowmen.