Recent content by Dark_MadMax

Build military and go to war early , you have to keep the most powerfull civs from expanding, puppet good cities (you need culture and science) gift away not needed one to weak civs (i cant sell any cities to ai for some reason). Make sure you have most ctiy states as allies. Keep the...

Well for games yes. Because computer games do not have good AI. So the best AI they come up with is still not challenging without cheats. In games where AI is good (chess, bridge etc) no cheating is required. Well the problem is that when you start ramping up the bonuses to ridiculous...

I admit This was my first attempt at MP in TBS game. I play a lot of MP but to date it was FPS and RTS. Now TBS might work but it needs much better tools : such as good lobby, good matchmaking , good ladder and ranking. And for something like tbs where games are very long it needs tools to...

I give up on Civ MP. First of course its unplayable with all lag and crashes, but 2nd, and more important - Civ is just not a game for MP. The pace is slow, nothing happens for long time even on quickest setting. Combat is decided by something I have no idea what ( who clicks first? who has...

You know basing anything on steam global stats should be taken with grain of salt. Because truth is majority of players play new game for maybe 5 hours if that. I read somewhere only like 10% of gamers finish the game they bought. Besides game is slow and crashing and finishing it was actually...

Yeah I noticed that too. Liz settles every friggin free spot. She settled 4 cities in tundra/snow 3-4 hexes apart . If I ever get to them they are razed for sure

I never manged to due to disconnect/crashes. My SP game is relatively stable as long as I dont use load game or strategic overlay (both are guaranteed crash) , but MP.... and it just sucks after you get hard won start to have it die :/

I am really at loss how diplo works. My current game - deity, pangea. Elizabeth settled 5 cities right near my first 2 cities border in the very beginning. I go on and play ignoring her , I accept all agreements coming my way from everyone - all pacts and stuff, trade my open borders for...

I just realized another massive AI weakness . The dominant AI gets so many units at end game it literally take almost all of their tiles. But due to 1tp all those hordes are not very effective as i if you have semi defensible position you can keep killing his units with almost impunity...

It seems to be a bug or I dont get something. So I had some sort of permanent open borders FOR THEM (since I traded it for gold it just got stuck there forever). But worst of all I played all the way to the final showdown with elizabeth, but she has same bug - 33% bonus in MY LANDS. I...

Be prepared for early war (start preparing right after you settle 2nd city or even before making a settler). Take out one civ early (the one foolish to declare war on you ) .That should help with luxury resources On higher difficulty settings I go for honor right away to smack barbs (=xp)...

It worked for me on deity. Albeit with companion cav. I built initially 4 of them and rolled china (cause they attacked city state I liked) and dented ghandi. Used one swordsmen to soften up pikes but mostly hit and runs vs favorable terrain ( 5 moves allows you to attack with all 4 often...

+Currently playing deity game which turned out to be quite interesting , but 2 things bother me: 1) Ghandi's (he is crazy warmonger somehow) units have +33% friendly bonus in my territory! WTF? 2) Washington got pretty good early start with cities all over the place but Liz and Ghandi...

I frankly found russia bonuses and units useless crap. You dont need more than 4 horsemen, nor more than 4 swordsmen initially. By the time you do you will have plenty duplicates Cossacks (their special unit) is complete and utter crap. Krepost bonus is the only decent one . Compared to...

I wasnt able to have AI buy a frigging size 15 city with 5 wonders for one gold. Nor I ever saw cities offered for peace agreement . Seems like there are different versions of civ ppl playing