Recent content by ChaosPearl

If you're willing to micromanage your units each turn, you can pretty effectively block an AI's entire army from going anywhere just by using a handful of scouts in strategic hexes. Depends on the map and the positions of various civs. If you want a great laugh, try it on an archipelago map...

Someone earlier said that CiV diplo would make more sense if there were a little more flavor to the messages, a little more variation... the more I think on it, the more I agree to a point. Take the example where a civ keeps settling cities near your borders and then pops up complaining...

Has anyone else noticed that a nearby civ almost always requests open borders with you before it attacks you? It's like they want to be able to get closer to your cities, or they want to check out the lay of your land, then decide to attack you. Which makes sense, but what doesn't make sense...

I don't go for cultural wins after about half a dozen of them... it somehow seems too easy, though I'm not smart enough to be able to say what exactly about it is broken, heh. I did notice that you almost never get attacked by civs that you don't have open borders with. I'd played several...

The whole "grateful forever" thing seems to have been accidentally left out of the code, yeah. On more than one occasion I've stomped all over Civ A during a war, razed almost all the cities I took and replaced them with my own settlers, but chose to liberate the capital of Civ B... then...

Somebody asked this once already, but it was never answered: are achievements disabled if you're running mods, i.e. if you begin a game from the mod options menu? I was just looking over the achievements list and noticed that there are at least a dozen if not more achievements listed as...

Okay, before I say anything let me state that I'm a newb to MP. I've played exactly one multiplayer game of CiV in my life and that was last night. If that means my opinion is less valid, so be it. That being said, it only took one game for me to see how aggravating it can be trying to figure...

So, ah... hello. I've never played a Civ MP game in my life and I'm wondering how to go about it. I can see tons of games hosted when I click the MP option, but I don't know how one joins a game -- I didn't think it was cool to just invite myself to a random game. Tried popping into the...