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One tip from my own experience, that no one has mentioned yet: take any barb cities that appear, before your AI neighbour scoops them with a wandering chariot. Doubly so if that AI is Creative and you're not. That can really spoil a great piece of "uncontested" land. If you can't afford the...

I find Donut maps give high food starts quite often (funnily enough considering it's named after a foodstuff :p). Even something crazy like triple corn + two seafood isn't too rare. On the downside, happiness resources are quite rare (partly because there's no tundra for furs and silver to...

Reminds me of this :D. What settings did you use with the PlanetGenerator mapscript to get that?

I almost always choose, since I can't stand getting the same civ or even the same trait twice in a row. Of course, I choose some leaders more often than others... (*cough* Huayna *cough*) Plus what TheMulattoMaker said about stacking the deck applies here too :mischief:. When I feel like a...

1) I would've thought 100% culture was enough to own a tile... seems not. :crazyeye: 2) Funny in a different sort of way... the sad joke that is hidden diplo modifiers :sad: (and "worst enemy" mechanics for that matter) 3-4) Hammurabi is losing in one war... but still thinks he can win the...

Dragging this slightly off-topic now, but I tried Nationalism/Rifling on a small Pangaea (edit: on Monarch level), with predictable results (conquest win in 400BC). I never even lost a battle. So... yeah.

Favourite Leader: Huayna Capac Favourite Civ: Inca (even if we are considering leaders and civs independently :D) Favourite AI: Isabella (easy to befriend, and easy to conquer :D) Least Favourite AI: Shaka Strengths: research, expansion Weaknesses: modern era war, espionage Favorite Diplo...

OK, I can see this "best starting techs without being restricted to the first column" thing is worth its own thread... 6 pop isn't that hard to reach, and even then it doesn't need to all be happy. Plus the barracks gives you +2:) under Nationhood to cover most of the draft :mad:. And as for...

How about Nationalism and Rifling. :p Personally, I hate Wheel as a starting tech. Sure, it guarantees your worker has something to do, but I'd rather have my food specials improved sooner than have a few extra roaded tiles. Ag/Mining is my pick for a random start.

The second line is the :) from Notre Dame. I don't know why they put it on a separate line but gave it the same text, maybe they meant to put some other text there and just forgot?

Well I had a fail day today... - Bulbed Astronomy the same turn I finished Colossus (well at least no one else got it... :p) - Lost Pyramids by one turn... in 1230 AD.

^ Hey, I was just gonna mention that myself ;) Another thing I tried once was a Duel Lakes 18 civ conquest game with Inca, just to see how quick I could finish.

That white blob in the corner is sea ice, which counts as a water tile. Presumably, there is more water off the screen, since the sea has to have at least 10 water tiles for coastal buildings and wonders to be available. (The map looks like a Fantasy Realm, which would also explain the tundra...

It's Shift. Though sometimes it doesn't work, for no apparent reason, and other times it bugs out and thinks I've let go of Shift (making the GM move, after which you can't check the mission value, which is just stupid).

Interesting... what exactly are the factors that influence the AI to accept or refuse gifted units? I'd guess this would suffer the same problems as using obsolete units to soften defenders - War Success for the AI, war :mad: for you.