Recent content by Dawnpromise

The main reason I brought this up was less a complaint at the actual speed of play, and more a complaint at the in-game dates failing to sync with realistic dates. I don't suppose there's a config file or possible modmod to change the pace of the in-game calendar is there? Rather then messing...

Over the last few games I've played (King, Epic Speed, Huge Map (Planet Sim), 16 civs, tech trading on ) my games have all come to an end before the dawn of the 19th century AD. Usually around 500 turns. Now I'm not much of a history buff but I'm pretty sure they didn't have internet and nuclear...

My only complaint regarding the AI refusing to surrender cities is that it often leads to a war cycle where, we go to war and I get in position to take a city and they offer to peace out. Then I decline the peace offer because why would I accept the small fry when I got a whopper on the hook...

I agree it'd be nice to have a decent grasp of how to befriend or even play nice with the AI. One of the downsides of making them more competitive for victory is that you'll quickly earn the enmity of the all civs once you start to pull ahead. I usually RP this as other civs being jealous of my...

Is the embassy a GP Improvement? Do GP improvements improve resources? There lies your answer.

I'll agree, but this is a question can answer what civs may be lacking a niche at best and an idle opinion poll at worst.

Yeah, but Byzantium does the same thing but BETTER. Reduced faith buy costs, bonus belief, and no competition for beliefs. The only thing I think Spain does better is they get their religion online faster via settling....and that's about it. I can buy cheap inquisitors for rival pressure. Then...

For me it's Spain. Isabella just doesn't have anything unique to offer to religion that the Celts or Byzantium don't do better.

Wow that's double mine. Impressive.... or am I just weak?

Only strong opinion I have on promotions as a whole is that they're all locked too far down the promo-tree. Do we really need 3 ranks of shock/drill/barrage/etc.? It feels like they're just there to delay you from getting to the fun and interesting promotion decisions when they'd be actually fun...

"Monster Missionary" nice to have a nickname for this Faith build. I usually use Apostilic Tradition + Pilgrim's Way as my Founding Beliefs most games as Byz as the spreader bonus gives a good incentive to spread early and keep spreading to all neighbors, regradless of if they have a religion or...

The game does heavily favor wide over tall right now. And it actually does present reasonable arguments for why wide works better then tall both in-game and historically. That said Ill also agree that tall empires, or at the very least Tradition based empires feel terrible right now. It's...

I'll also state that tall playstyle is rather weak in VP's current state. It just doesn't feel good to me unless I'm pushing out new cities for the empire. That said it can also depend on map size tall playstyle gets increasingly weaker the bigger the map you play on and stronger on smaller...

Wasn't it a feature in older civ games to rebel against the world congress at a massive diplo penalty? I know that's no way G would be willing/able to code that in but this whole thread is making me yearn for the option.

This is actually what tends to happen when I get sanctioned. It just leads to me taxing my vassals who voted for it. Usually I'm trading my luxuries all over the world and then I get sanctioned for being int he lad and then THE GLOBA ECONOMY TANKS because those few resources I was importing...