Recent content by City Raider

You should check out some of madscientists role playing games. He puts lots of "different" rules into place. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=8287520#post8287520 His last game was an espionage game. He shut off science slider at alphabet and stole all his techs with spies...

I think that is rare to pop a tech like that. Now, it does happen, I've popped HBR before. I've popped AH, BW, Writing, and IW before as well (not in the same game of course. lol). However, I think it is rare. At least for me. I play on emperor and the vast majority of my games I can pop...

Double post.

Lol! I used to do the same thing. I'd always need the perfect grid of cities and it would frustrate me to no end when the AI would settle some stupid city and mess it up. I'd even raze those and rebuild. I did get over it and realized (especially as I moved up in levels) it really wasn't...

I'm not sure if brokering makes it easier or harder, but I like trading so I leave it on. I also think some of you are over estimating how much you can actually "broker" a tech. Unless it is different on Imm or Diety. I play on Emperor and I can take the Aest example. First, you are...

My super Medic is completely dependent on my start. If I start with a scout he's my initial target. If I can keep him alive to get combat I + Medic I, I send him back to base and he'll probably become my first super medic or at least a back-up medic. If I don't start with scouts my...

I think I was a bit light on starting cities, since I sort of changed mid stream at the start. Plus I was doing so well with beakers and made a last minute switch for an Oracle slingshot, I don't think I placed my third city until I either just got oracle or right after. I ran two cities with...

This is a timely thread. I was playing a game last night (Emperor/Epic/Standard map) with Gilgy and had an awesome start: gold, jumbos and 6 FP for cottages in BFC. Anyway, was just going to play a good tech game but decided to make a run at jumbos (No copper or horse near. Did eventually...

Yeah, I just saw that thread. haven't watched the video's though. I never realized a GS bulb of Machinery was kind of possible. Looks like you need to avoid fishing and make sure you have Alpha, Aesth, Math. Details. :lol:

I was playing around with some of these last night and was using China trying for Machinery. Emperor/Epic/Big and Small. One game I missed by a few turns. I was about 5 turns from getting MC and Oracle. Another game I got it around turn 112, but Monty declared war on me literally like two...

Good point. Just missed that. I'm so used to making AH one of my first techs, I forgot Priesthood opens up Writing. Good catch.

I normally pick CoL b/c its a useful tech no matter what style you play and doesn't really take much thought to get it. That said, I've done CS a couple times on Emp and thought I'd break it down a bit. It is kinda more doable then I originally thought. This is Emperor/Epic so beaker...

One thing about moving up, it is definitely easier to trade techs b/c the AI gets them faster. So if possible avoid what you can trade for. Good trading techs to research are Aes, Lit, Phil, then Paper and Edu. You can usually trade Aes for things like Alphabet, Monarchy (just put a turn or...

But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given...

No it wouldn't, not if the the AI could competently pursue Culture, Space, or Diplo wins. There is no reason the AI couldn't routinely win via Space/Culure by say by 1925-1950 (depending on level of course). Meaning if you are playing a peaceful game you need to beat that time frame. It...