Recent content by chmilz

No. I can get everything without having a cultural item in the trade. Load the save game I posted above and offer a cotton to England, she'll willingly give up all the gold.

Even if I leave out artifacts they'll give me all their gold. In my deleted save they were willing to offer me over 1400 gold for a single luxury resource.

Summer patch hits. Load up existing save. Every trade opportunity, the AI will give me everything for nothing. I could offer a luxury resource and get all their gold, resources, and works. Figured the save was broken. Started new game. All was good. Then all of a sudden it started again. I don't...

If an AI requests gifts, do I get a boost to relationship if I accept their demand?

On low difficulty levels I've accidentally won culture victories because I can build damn near every wonder and great people trip over themselves to be in my empire. On higher difficulties it's difficult to build any wonders or earn any great people, and I find it brutally challenging to win via...

Graphical glitch - the river is invisible.

i5-2500k 390X 8GB, 8GB RAM 3440x1440 borderless window all advanced options on/max DX11 Graphics: 99th 29.817ms AI: 19.14 DX12 Graphics: 99th 28.436ms AI: 18.89 About 5% gain with DX12 on my rig

Current game I decided to go China with an initial strategy of domination victory. Didn't get horses or iron anywhere close to my starting area. I may recover later, but what a damper on my strategy.

Whenever I can, unless I break for another game. Just cracked 1000hrs according to Steam. Easily the best investment for my gaming dollar since I started gaming in the mid-80's.

Agreed. Such a wtf improvement. In G&K I don't build them anyway. If I don't get rivers I reroll, and then it's all about the foods. I liked in Civ4 how they were tangible improvements that grew as they were worked, and really satisfied the immersion by showing how a civilization sprawls out...

I like domination wins, but I tend to drag them out to 300 turns. Maybe I like building too much, I dunno. Can you gimme a brief walkthrough/strategy that gives me the know-how and possibly the courage to pull the trigger earlier, and more often?

At Prince difficulty, turtle and do whatever it takes to get your beakers up. Beeline artillery, then oil and bombers.

When you absolutely, positively, do not want your opponents to get CS bonuses: Austria I'd hate to play MP vs. Austria.

On a separate continent? No. On my continent? Absolutely.

I'm with joncnunn - capital 2 tiles to the west, found 2nd city the the right of river at tip of ocean. In vanilla there's little good use for desert, but that would be a fast growing city initially with the double stone on grassland start. If you make it to 3rd ring you can even have your 2nd...