Recent content by Cavalyn

Personally I'm not massive on buying things with faith anyway. You'll only ever have a certain amount of faith, and the costs of great people by faith increase so massively... Taking pantheons or beliefs, or even social policies based on "which great person it gives you" is a poor way to do...

lol @ Somalia, you're right. As for the "Maybe I suck" comment, well if you want to improve you need to push yourself!! Also it's weird that city states still give so much respect for destroying a barb camp of warriors, when they are running round with longswords and crossbowmen 0.o

The questions suggest that scientists are the only reason to take it. This is wrong imo. I take it for the big boosts to science rate and specialists, not to mention the two free technologies. I think the reason is is so popular might be that it works for more than one VC. Piety is good for...

Definitely a near-requirement that you have barbs on tbh... Playing without them is basically playing an easier game. It's very much like choosing the enemy civs specifically to have ones you can beat more easily... I usually play with raging, though I do agree they should turn off at a...

Hi all, There are plenty of posts around here about how to best go about getting science empires, or even food empires... But what type of style best allows for massive gold production? Would a taller empire make more sense, or a wide one? Also in what ways do you specialise cities for...

Probably because as far as anyone else is aware, you declared war for NO reason whatsoever! You dont need NC that early to re-iterate other points. I usually play immortal, where the AI cheeses religion so fast! But i still manage to make my own, even when i squat out a worker as my first...

Hmm, a problem is that on immortal a few pantheons go quickly... i'm often the 4th or 5th to get one... and fertility rites always seems to be one of the first to go... I rarely get swords to plowshares either, since sometimes when people dow me, even when they have nothing left, they simply...

Can we know who you use, what social policies, what your ultimate victory goal is? If you're having trouble, try playing a tall empire. I.e. don't even bother building a settler until after the NC, or use the free liberty one after NC... I got from prince to immortal playing with just OCC...

Hi all, I tend to play MP with a friend, we agree not to fight until later on, usually industrial. We play only on marathon, immortal, with raging barbarians. I'm used to playing OCC egypt or rushing babylon, but fancied trying a tall Aztec game.. Probabyl with 3-4 cities all with huge...

Perhaps i am being unlucky, but the computer is never willing to trade luxuries with me. Even in my last game where Pachou- and Ghandi and I had a triple decleration of friendship circle (which resulted in waaay too many messages). Ghandi had 7 wine, and wasn't willing to sell me one for even...

Ty for response Trickster, i admit i havent even tried city states since the last patch, since they horrified me when i played an MP game with a few friends, and I owned every state with patronage tree.... I was bringing gets and mechanised infantry vs their musketmen. I usually play on King...

Hey all, really sorry if this comes across as a newbish question, or one that has been answered before, I looked but could not find it in this forum. But how do people make use of their respective specialists in their games? The one I wonder most about is Great Engineer and Great...

Hey all, i bought civ5 on release, but have just reinstalled it once more, after well over a year without playing it. Think I stopped perhaps 3 months after release. I was never a pro, or heavy MP player, preferring to play with some close friends. But I felt I was okay. My usual tactic was to...