Recent content by CrispyCritter

I certainly have run out of promotions every game that I've built apostles in, both pre and post-patch. I tend to buy the bulk of my apostles after the AI early rushes, and that definitely limits my supply of the good promotions.

Why? That's unrealistic - resources like iron is why a lot of early wars took place. Getting easy iron was rare. As others have said, if you don't have iron, you develop other strengths. The whole notion of Civ 6 is that you're not supposed to have a set recipe for your play. You can't...

I agree that the suggestions proposed for razing a district are just wanting quick fixes to the player's own mistakes. They are very non-realistic and simplistic - the penalties suggested aren't anything like the real-life penalties of getting rid of your skilled businesses. I could see...

I'm sorry, but I lost track of your argument then. You claim that the initial buggy AI didn't bother you, because you played real folks rather than AI, but that couldn't have been at initial release since the multi-player features were too badly broken at release - it took them a while as I...

I view it as an exploit. It's way too easy. The fun part of the game for me (pre-exploit fixing) is figuring out how all the various pieces fit together. If you stomp on the AI early, then you don't have to make hard decisions about anything the rest of the game.

Are you making the claim that Civ 4 multi-player worked well upon initial release of Civ 4? Wow, that's different from my memory!

Have you already converted a German city? If so, then the German AI is perfectly content to keep on pumping up missionaries and apostles from it, even though they will have your religion. And of course, your apostles won't attack a missionary of your own religion.

Good points; you can speed things up even more by ignoring the Shrine on the capital city, and go straight to Prayer project - if it fits, you can chop forests to further speed up the project. You can get the Shrine in a later pre-religion stage if you see that you have time. I've never tried...

You made the choice to have a "very healthy-sized army" and take the AI cities on your counterattack. You can't both do that and go after a religion on deity (except if you're lucky or Arabia).

You made the early decision to conquer; that's fine if that's what you want to do. But I don't understand why you feel you should be able to do both. Civ 6 seems to be about making choices and you can't do everything. That makes it a much more enjoyable game, IMO. If you try to get a...

If you want to play the difficult levels, then yes, you have to decide early what direction you want to try to go. On Deity, religions are gone by turn 60, so you really have to push to get one. If you don't get one, then you'll play a bit behind for a while and just try to survive. I don't...

It depends much more on mix of civs and geography than difficulty level (other than the lowest). I just finished a deity game and had one minor border clash until the end of the game. Even among the AIs, there were only two cities taken in the entire game. I don't see anything that needs...

Are there good mechanisms for spreading religious influence indirectly (not through apostles/missionaries)? Playing Deity as India, I had an almost peaceful game - one minor border skirmish with France. I managed to convert most of the world to Hinduism and even maintained an alliance and...

Do you have examples? I don't know of any that good that handle the very wide range of units and promotions that even an unmodded Civ system must. And it's not just development time, which would be large but close to one-time, but the game play time. How much are we willing to pay in game...

As a programmer, I think Firaxis has done an outstanding job on this release. When I read the forums here, they are full of complaints. But they are complaints about balance, complaints about the AI choices, complaints about 1UPT, complaints about missing features that would be helpful. They...