Recent content by Chalybion

Whatever the AI "knows," it learned from scraping CivFanatics. It's best to ask people who actually play the game, and who can experience enjoyment from playing a game.

Privateers create a blockade radius on water tiles only. Coastal cities touching those blockaded tiles lose gold generated by trade routes with other cities, and you receive that gold instead. Blockaded tiles don't generate food/hammers/gold. Often the biggest impact is from starving an...

Does Isabella have techs and research power to catapult you to the next level of military techs? If so, it could be good to keep her as a friendly trade partner. Korea is probably a tech leader, so it could be good to vassal them instead of attacking Izzy. Does Isabella have Conquistadors yet...

My experience with Immortal isolation games validates what Izuul said - I'm skipping Monarchy as long as I can get two additional happiness, for size 7 in capital/size 6 in others. This includes having a single gold/silver/gems - I am beelining Metal Casting and putting excess production into...

When meeting AIs for the first time, any trade that is favorable for the AI will give +4 gift bonus - so it is easy to cancel out the -4 penalty for trading with worst enemy. I usually wait until I have met 2-3 AI. That way I know that I can get full value of my monopoly tech (often Compass)...

Played 20 turns, this is a great start! To me, low commerce start means double plains cow start, no river, and no hunting/agriculture. Then your research is crawling towards pottery with nine commerce, while you only have the option to build units that cost you maintenance. Commerce is also...

Another civilization discovered Liberalism before you; you must discover it first to receive the free technology. When this happens, the game log will display a blue text notification that says "[Player] is the first to discover Liberalism!" For discoveries happening on the same turn, the human...

But you still need IW, MC, Machinery. The first two can be traded for, probably, so that leaves 10 or so turns to research Machinery, then more time to whip macemen from two cities. Then you have 15 or so turns until longbows show up. It'd be fun to try, but 4 city engineering rush would be...

Hmm, I wonder if there is any trouble on new CPUs with heterogenous Performance/Efficiency cores?

I don't have experience with the Steam version, but can confirm that the GOG and CD-ROM versions work perfectly on Windows 11.

I experienced a new event today, when Julius Caesar started two separate wars on back-to-back turns! He joins the ranks of Montezuma and Genghis Khan, other leaders known to fight multiple wars. In this circumstance, JC was plotting on his northern neighbor Pericles. While plotting, I refused...

I don't think he can do diplo, since he has over the population threshold

T398...ROFLMAO

Churchill has the modern/future military - could be bad for Mehmed