Recent content by DalekDavros

There's no need to balance them, because they aren't in competition with each other. You have the "maritime CS" game mechanic and you have the "cultural/military CS" game mechanic. There's no more need to balance them to each other than there is to balance any other two completely unrelated...

That sounds too passive. I'd rather have a UU like "CIA provocateur" (replaces Spy, if espionage is ever added back in) or a UB like "Voice of America" (replaces Broadcast Tower).

There is. It's called "not hovering your mouse over the area until the tooltip appears." No, tech is not too quick now (especially if you don't abuse the ICS bug): I consistently win the game around the midpoint of the tech tree. And, no it wouldn't necessarily make teching faster anyway...

Siam and Persia do have achievements, but they're hidden until you achieve them. They are:

Yes. For a few reasons: 1) The scout is cheaper. Early exploration is the most important exploration, as the goody huts won't last long and its ideal to be the first to meet a city-state. (Plus, getting the natural wonder happiness sooner rather than later is nice too.) 2) Two move through...

Not so. Your probability calculations are accurate, but as the physicist Richard Feynman said (in "The Meaning of it All"), "it doesn't make sense to calculate after the event. You see, you found the peculiarity, and so you selected the peculiar case." If I were to play a game as the...

While technically true, if you're suggesting that this probability is 50%, I'd disagree. If you flip a coin 100 times and get heads every single time, it means you're flipping a coin with two heads.

Besides being a bit absurd (Monarchy/Feudalism/Theocracy/Democracy/Communism = utopia?), won't that just make set-paths for the Cultural Victory even worse?

From the XML, the possible responses are: Some leaders may have individualized responses; I didn't check.

If you keep clicking on the city tile (not on the unit icon), it'll cycle through the units on the tile.

The pikes are good. The Siam UU (elephant) is vulnerable to pikes and the AI has a habit of attacking with nothing but elephants once they're available, so pikes ought to be your first line of defense if you have a border with Siam. Some specific thoughts (based on the Washington-Siam...

Scouts obsolete at Scientific Theory.

The list of cities that still need to build a building to enable a National Wonder (that was added in 1.0.0.62) includes puppet cities, even though the puppets don't actually need to build the building in order to enable the NW. Save included, just in case it's necessary. In the save, it's a...

How about the "What are you talking about? I don't even know where your borders are!" response?

Sure it can. By removing it in Germany (where it sounds like there may be a legal issue), the German government is censoring it. By removing it everywhere else too, 2k is censoring it. Either way it's censorship.