Recent content by Cornhog

I've tried this a few times this weekend and it seems entirely based on whether the map makes it easy to get to the capitals or not. If they aren't you lose, if they are you win.

Why autocracy? It seems objectively worse than the other two in all things. I played a game last night and, after conquering a couple of culture whores, managed to get the entire tree. It was lackluster. What are you getting from it that you couldn't get better or nearly better from the other two?

Acken, I noticed in your video that you posted way, way back on Page 2 of this thread that you discovered Philosophy on turn 47 -- before you have even built a single library. Why research it this early when it's not being used? I try to sneak in a few other techs and time it so that I finish...

If it's really not complex then that makes my current game look bad. :lol: Are there turn benchmarks for how much tourism a player needs? In this game, with 100+, I should be able to manage 300 with the Internet and International Games -- assuming I win. Is 20 turns of 300+ tourism that late...

Looking at screenshots in other threads, I feel like I'm missing something substantial about culture victories. Other people have tourism in the hundreds. I feel like I'm a stud if I get it over 100 and that's usually 200+ turns into the game. Do all great writers and artists get turned into...

Hey, longtime lurker, infrequent poster here, and I wanted to give a big shout out and thanks to the Strategy and Tips section. I've been trying to win faster scientific victories, but I got tired of just missing it on Immortal. So I said, what the hell and cranked it up to deity... and I...

I suppose I should put these in spoiler tags...

@sun8119 How do you get such a large population so quickly? I feel like I'm missing something fundamental. I won a science victory in the 300s with roughly the same city layout as you except I didn't take Marakech until late. Even with all the extra turns, Delhi was nowhere near 50 pop. It was...

Does anyone have some good rules of thumb for food caravans or trade caravans in general? I've noticed that I tend to either reflexively send all food caravans to my capital, or pick the highest science output, or complete a CS mission. Given the power of trade routes, I should probably put a...

I've played Civ since the beginning, but I'm just now getting into Civ5 -- hated vanilla but they finally turned it into a good game. Anyway, my feel for city placement is still stuck in Civ4 mode, so I've been paying attention to this thread. I just rolled this game and can't decide which is...

Little confused by what you're saying about rivers. What do they have to do with cargo ships, and why does it mean that my other cities don't have to be on a river?

I'm sure this is explained somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. How "long" does it take to complete the world projects like the World's Fair or the International Games? It does not seem to be a set number of turns. My hunch is that there's a certain amount of global hammers that need to be...

So, the Civfanatics group and the Weplayciv group didn't get in? They realize we're the biggest fans, right?

I signed up, but I'm really not expecting much. It's been awhile since Firaxis laid anything better than a cold turd. With any luck this one may be room temperature.

P.S -- I can't think of much it does better than SMAC even.