Recent content by Dagreat

Ok this is my first emperor level victory. Hoping u guys could assess the situation (save is from turn before victory) Summary: Playing archi as Byzantines on standard map. At the start I got a few curraghs exploring, and got a 5 tech lead over everyone else cos (would u believe it) at the...

is it just me or is it much easier to win with smaller maps at the same difficulty level? I just can't imagine much competition where the AI doesn't really get much opportunity to outexpand you and there aren't even that many of them to outresearch you.

sorry to hijack thread, but one of the problems I have with fighting wars is that I like to do a big military build-up before war along my borders so that in the first few turns I can takes 2-3 cities before they know what's happened. My problem is that after those first 2-3 cities the war kind...

What difficulty are you playing on? You don't need to "expand like crazy" for below emperor, emperor and above, you just gotta expand like crazy and build just enough military to defend your cities for a little while. No time for wonders/many improvements until there's no more unclaimed land.

does the blocking work the same way for domestic resources too? E.g. If I only ahve 1 iron source on an island, and it's connected to mainland by coast/harbour, if I go to war with the civ between me and the coastal tiles leading to the island, does my iron get cut off?

damn....so my rep got trashed cos iroquois decided to declare war on me for no good reason....not to mention the gold/luxuries i lost from it.

hm...i've got C3C 1.22f or whatever the latest patch is...@vmxa that's quite likely, but how could it be cut off by declaration? Unless coastal squares are allowed for trade when you're at peace with a third civ, and are disallowed when you're at war with them?

It's probably just me missing something, but in the attached game I'm playing as Dutch on 60% archipelago, and I'm importing and exporting luxuries with China but I don't know how.(They're on another continent, I think I have a harbour but it's early MA and nobody has astronomy yet). A few turns...

Also, does rop-rape only affect other civs' willingness to sign rops in future, or does it also affect gpt deals? Also, does breaking a gpt deal make non gpt deals more expensive in future? And lastly, what effects does making demands from weaker AIs do besides their attitude towards you?

Well the Chinese game didn't go too well after that, fell behind dramatically and then I gave up when they all got railroads and I was still pumping out ancient cavalry So..... Started a new game as French: Continents, 60% water, 7 AI opponents. They are Ottomans, Germany, Portugal...

i've never played civ multiplayer so i was just wondering how long multiplayer games usually last?

hm...ok thx for the pointers...i'll see what i can do and if i get raped too badly i'll start a new game and hopefully improve on this effort

should I attempt to build galleys and cross the small sea to attack maya or attack Inca by land?

hm....I tried buying techs from AI too but it just doesn't seem to work for me...once MA starts the techs just get too expensive, and especially if there are one or two scientific civs your'e going to find it really hard to keep up by buying techs, or do you mean to buy techs once everyone else...

I started a new game with 60% water Continents game as Chinese with 7 AI opponents. I'm at 290 BC and I'd appreciate some criticism and help with where to go from here. Summary so far: I got a fairly good start I think, outexpanding all the AIs I knew. (I'm second overall in land area) No...