Recent content by Colocolo

Forgive me if there already is a comprehensive ideology thread or guide. I have always been an Order man, it makes me want to shout Viva Allende and dance to the Marseillaise as I gobble my fascist foes to feed my metropolis leviathan. But the thought occurred to me that since I puppet...

I think it is safer to say that English really began to dominate when the UN was built by George Washington in New York in 1712 AD with the help of Sinan after he closed Liberty. Previously, diplomats and all educated people were expected to learn French, if not German and Italian. I remember...

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Actually fall is the true English word for the season, autumn is Latinate (autumnus: to cool). That said, as any student of Anglo-Saxon can attest, English was repeatedly simplified due to its use by various non-native speakers to the extent that there is a decent argument to make that English...

I got a start in immortal as Arabia that had desert hills with rivers, a single mountain next door, and was on a coast. Oh, and those hills had three gold mines and one silver and there was wheat on the river. It was already amazing until I popped three ruins for something like 500 faith. Desert...

10: Don't agree here. If you want culture so much, go for something else. 9: I would agree except that the Danes already have little langskips/drakkars when their units embark. In viking fashion, a separate landskip/drakkar unit that could move up rivers would be devastatingly fun. Otherwise...

I'm actually amazed at how many of the ideas I posted on earlier suggestion forums made it in one form or another into BNW. Anyway I think the Ski Infantry has a niche on Ice Age maps. Personal experience: After initially freaking out that there was no gold -- I've enjoyed playing two...

You have to take a pretty narrow view of what it means to be French to write something like that. Charlemagne was as French as Albert the Great was English: he was born in what is today France, and spoke what was then French, just as Albert was born in England and spoke English (or Ænglisc)...

The aristocracy actually preferred French over Russian and would communicate with each other in French. They saw Russian as "barbaric" to the point that some refused to learn it.

While some are excited about the changes to France, I'm skeptical to the point of suggesting that the powers that be lost perspective as to what France is and should be. France was a major Medieval power, and it blossomed in the Renaissance under the Sun King. And within the game, France has...

Trade ships & Pirates Starting in the Renaissance, trade ships can be built and sent between ports separated by ocean on trade runs either between colonies separated by ocean or between friendly ports (after Declaration of Friendship). Trade ship produces gold once returned from destination...

If you remember in Civ4, such things as crucial resources for your civ selection not to be a total disaster existed (horses from Byzantines, iron for Rome), but now in Civ5 there are start biases. Even if a hypothetical Colocolo didn't start next to silver, it makes the game more interesting to...

South America: While I like the idea of adding one if not two more options from South America, many of the pre-Colombian proposals represented regional groups that were pretty well incorporated into the Inca empire (although I would love to see a Nazca lines tile improvement). The Wari-Tiwanaku...

In thinking how to make diplomacy in the game richer and more authentic and varied (much like BTS did for Civ4), and to make the game more closely resemble world history I came up with the following suggestions and ideas: Ancien Regime (Napoleon UA) tweak: cities produce +2 culture until...