Recent content by chazzycat

Totally unrelated, but I was curious what this meant. According to Google AI, "PPN Granary" likely refers to Principle Protected Notes in the context of investment products." Thanks, AI! After using my brain for a moment I found the real answer: "pre-pottery Neolithic".

I started out playing similarly. I think I was subconsciously a bit hung up on the mindset of being locked into war from playing the previous civ games for 20+ years lol. But yeah, now that you can decline to participate in an allies war, the downside is far less severe. And also often times...

I do feel that major-civ diplomacy is important and generally beneficial to be taking an active role in. Wars with the AI can just suck up a ton of resources on the higher levels. I am pretty sure at this point that AI is doing some kind of "pointy stick" assessment behind the scenes before...

Honestly Firaxis could take some inspiration from Microsoft here and re-release the older civ games with updated graphics. AoE 2 definitive edition is amazing.

It wasn't great until an update a couple days ago changed the growth curve. It's still early to say for sure, but early results seem strong to me. Sagax post is solid advice but I don't really agree that tall/wide balance doesn't factor into this milestone. Sure, of course you don't need to...

In games where I lean into playing "tall" I find myself getting 40 output tiles in antiquity rather than exploration. And will continue to complete the explo milestone without even giving it a moment's thought. With the new growth curve I would advise everyone give it a shot. Just push food...

Definitely not. Only the first few growths are slower, and those were super fast before. There may be more focus on strategies around reaching 5 pop optimally, but overall food has been buffed a ton. I mean look at those tables, the changes in amounts of food needed for larger cities are...

Went with Confucius / Khmer to play with the new growth curve. Went for all food related stuff first, and it actually worked! It started by getting really lucky on goodie huts so I actually had a chance to use fertility rites. I proceeded to beeline Hanging Gardens on tech, and the unique...

The change to fish is going to dramatically change the modern age growth stuff as well. Tin is not nearly as easy to amass in large numbers.

Yeah, the stars kinda aligned on that attempt - I even managed to get fertility rites for once. Good times! I had a solid antiquity age, mostly keeping pace with deity yields but with one unfortunate exception. Napoleon is way ahead of everyone else. The unfortunate part is he's next to me...

Correct, which is why I provided a reference point from my previous games using the same play style. In all those previous games playing the same way, I was always around size 30-32, never more. Now I'm at 46. That is significant

Yeah, it's very noticeable for tall play. I pushed my capital up to size 46 in antiquity on the first try, where I never could get over ~32 or so previously. Khmer is back on the menu boys!

this is happening in a few days, no?

I only stopped playing temporarily because they are tinkering with the growth formula next week

I agree with you guys. I'm not saying it's correct, just that it's a very popular sentiment. If it weren't, they wouldn't be looking to make big changes. We'll see how it goes. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they make tall too OP and have to dial it back in the future.