Recent content by CubuS

I see - and I may very well be wrong here on the standard/standard settings then, but I am still curious as to how people keep up happiness on the higher difficulties by going a full tree and playing a wide play-style. Also I would argue that the free GP isn't that big of a deal compared to...

Yes I thought so and I find it to be a very valid point for tradition as it is a safe and strong opener, especially if you actually have room for those 4 cities and do not want to go straight into battle. If you handle your tile improvements by stealing workers I probably can't argue against...

Thanks, interesting post. I find it a bit strange that there seems to be so much consensus in here that you should commit to one social policy tree or another. I find it much more suitable for most games to cherry pick, but keeping in mind that I "often" have to be able to finish one for the...

Why not a combination of the two? I usually open the tradition tree to get the culture bonus early and then go for the free worker +25% tile improvement from liberty (but also do not steal CS workers), then switch back to get the happiness bonus from tradition and then when I have many cities go...

About the settler I'd usually go for it at size 3 and then go 100% on hammer, but messing around a bit to see if there's a better alternative, which there usually isn't. Since your city cannot be reduced in size while producing settler you can go everything on hammers while it is being...

The game is nice as such and I enjoy the time I've spent on it so far, good music, the alien part is fun and I like what they have done with miasmic and such getting the feeling that you are on a rather unfriendly planet and you will have to fight your way to settle it in the beginning until you...