Recent content by Der Schloss

I would appreciate some suggestions from other players on how to come from behind in research to achieve a Domination Victory. I was playing Caesar on Noble level against five AIs and found that there was only one AI on the same continent with me. I geared for an early rush and had eliminated...

I would like to see each AI EP assignment have three components. Borrowing from another suggestion somewhere else in this forum (I lost the thread and couldn’t find it again). There would be a slider for Passive, Covert and Defense. Then, when a spy of Unknown National Origin (UNO) is...

...on the way to a Cultural Victory; when I upped the Culture slider to 30%, my cities on the initial and well developed (by the AIs and me) continent didn't show any effect, but my cities on the underdeveloped second continent grew in leaps and bounds, squoosing the AI cities into little bitty...

Thank you for all your responses. You've given me two great ideas to try whenever I can: gift the missionary and the corp executive. In the particular case I cited, I wanted to spread my state religion to the closest city of a neighboring AI. In the game I'm playing, I'm going to start...

This is the second time (game) that I've noticed that an AI neighbor has Free Religion with four religions in his cities yet when I try to spread my religion into a city, the missionary always fails. Why? Any suggestions?:confused: I'm intrigued about this situation because one of my cities had...

I just logged in and spent 45 minutes addressing a change in EPs and when I previewed it, I was told that I wasn't logged in. C'est la vie!

In 1945 America could have vassalized half the world, if RL was like BtS, and kept the other half in fearful servitude, but America remembers every day what it was like to be a colony (there are a couple of documents about it, esp. The Declaration of Independence), so it chose to spend it's...

I've been playing for awhile now and just finished fighting two wars to win a Diplomatic Victory and the biggest impediment was the game would go from my attack with one unit of X quantity to a worker needing direction as to what to build. I would like to see in CIV V the aggregation of...

I put the slider at 10% as soon as I can (when I get Music) because: 1) you can countereffect somewhat if your neighbor builds Wonders; 2) if you plan to attack your neighbor, the accummulated culture will enable you to take over some 'newly opened' tiles close to your empire quicker; 3)if your...

Sometimes I see the AI mil units runing in and out of a city, accross tiles and back, three or four groups moving at the same time in different directions, then circling back, crossing routes. At first I thought that they were creating 'occurrances' which would catch a spy approaching the city...

I liked going to RTS until I found that the 'rush' makes the human a winner every time.

When I saw that my vassal had only 150 gold, I rearranged the EPs so that none went to my stockpile against him. Then, since there were two Empires on my continent and I was catching spys pretty regularly, I assigned half the EPs being generated to each. The two Empires on the other continent...

I ran into this difference between what they have and what is in the trade window with a vassal. Being a vassal, I could click on the city and open it up and saw 150 gold in the treasury. When I demanded tribute, the amount was zero. I didn't execute an espionage mission to steal the treasury...

Beating this espionage horse, I read the Bhuric description of 'Spy and Espionage Calculations' (or sumting like dat via da link) and I understand your explanation (I tink), so I send in four spys to a city with whose Empire I have closed borders (CB) and the first gets caught and the next three...