Recent content by dfrani

Nothing appears in the UI, like -100 "You Nuked their Cities"... it was the same before and after.

On my current Dom game I owned everybody else's capital and had to wait for my alliance to Expire with Teddy. I tried nuking the border between us to provoke a war even though we were allies (to expedite the process). It didn't work... so i took it a step further and nuked his capital, and...

Has anybody noticed, that if you have an alliance with another Civ; and you Nuke them.... there are no repercussions. The game allows you to nuke your Allys, and since your in an alliance, it won't even phase them. I've tested this a bit further, and if you nuke a Civ you just made peace with...

Production costs can be off-set with multiple trade routes in the new cities; let them focus on building an industrial district then buy the buildings. Its the only way to really establish late game cities.

Yes! Civ I was hard! I felt accomplished that I could win on Prince. Part of that could be age, experience, and skill over that time period; but I remember it being very hard. Not so much lately...

So I was thinking maybe the AI was nerfed on purpose. I remember one time when LaForge asked the computer for an opponent who could defeat data; we got Moriarty. I remember another time when machines became self aware, skynet anyone? Maybe the original AI was so good there were concerns of a...

You can interpret what I said however you like. But I personally like how Fraxis does development, focus on delivery and get better over time. So long as they are responsive to customer needs (which is historically true) and they address community concerns (current silence not withstanding...

Correct; Fraxis has an good estimate on the true total cost of delays (marketing, canceled sales, reputation damage, etc...), they ALSO have an idea on the cost of releasing the collection on known bugs (cost in terms of lost customers, brand damage, etc...). They presumably have...

Overall satisfaction is better with agile methodology; you're not satisfied with a game that you have as opposed to being not satisfied with missing a deadline. Overtime, getting good enough software out often leads to better final software- on the aggregate. Obviously there will be some...

The code could be in fine shape, in some cases, because the issues we are seeing are about balancing configurations more than problems (albeit not in all cases). For example, their is a weight AI will give to gold in terms of importance. If a QA engineer found a month before release that the...

OP was saying the code is in bad shape, I was saying that the code could be in fine shape. But fixing issues takes time, QA takes time, and there are trade-offs that are made on any release. If you're saying that a high number of dependencies is bad, there is some truth to that... but in a...

So in the early/mid game I wiped out the Greeks. I took most of their cities, even though I really didn't want to. I was friends with Norway and was trying to manage my warmonger penalty. It worked out well, didn't raze any cities and it was fine. However at the time I didn't have alot of...

So I am a software development program manager; that means I don't write code but manage my customers and the overall release process. I am the decision maker on acceptable bugs and issues that enter a release and set priorities. In Scrum terms I am a product manager. To me many of these...

If I have a bad relationship I always lke to make demands with another Civ. I have found that if I make a small demand, of say 10 GPT, I can literally make the demand 5,6,7+ times in a row and they keep agreeing. Same if I demand 1 resource at a time, I literally collected all of Kongos...

When you make peace you need to trade with them; either they cede the city to you and you get it w/out warmonger, or you trade it back to them. Otherwise you keep it in occupied status which has some penalties... if you don't want it trade it back to them and -return it.