Recent content by Dhar Khosis

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    I hate that.

    Disable diplomatic victory.
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    Worker actions in the 1st 50 turns

    In my version of BTS, you just lose the hammers that you "overwhip" (can't take more than the hamer cost plus the turn-production into the next round). Are you' playing with some strange mod there, or is this some other trick? To the topic, I think the answer to many of your questions is: It...
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    NC CLXVIII: Boudica of the Celts

    Another advantage of the Gallic Warrior - not mentioned in the opening thread - is that it is buildable with copper and doesn't need iron. This can lead to a faster attacks with swords, when you would have to settle iron after teching. Or being able to build them, if there's no iron at all.
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    BtS without mods

    Is that a philosophical question? Or do you want to know if I tried it? I did some shadowing on immortal games from this forum trying to bamboozle the AI with all those tricks - and no, I had no fun doing it, so breaking off those games. I didn't try it with Deity afaik, so yea maybe I'm...
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    BtS without mods

    I don't care about Deity, or Immortal. Seems like I have more fun increasing my personal difficulty by playing with self-imposed "handicaps" like those, or things like no-tech-trading, no vassals or random personalities. Instead of letting the AI cheat more by giving it more boni, and then...
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    BtS without mods

    You are kind of right, but you can choose to not hover over red-colored options in the trade-screen (a screen I don't even visit that often). Choosing to not look at the screen for 10 seconds (?) after each new turn until the messages fade away and somehow blend out the red fists in the...
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    BtS without mods

    I play without any mods. I don't even want an information about if an AI could probably plan an attack or not - if you would play against a human player (e.g. pbem), there wouldn't be an indicator either. For me this is even more exploiting the AI.
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    The best conquest leader?

    If you really want to trigger the "Conquest Victory", I suggest you to disable "Domination Victory". Because if you don't burn down a lot of enemy cities domination may trigger before you're the "last people standing". Montezuma has ups and downs considering conquest, some are already told by...
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    A trivial question about the research path

    Don't know, why nobody mentioned it, but it looks like a pretty coast heavy start, so why not (try to) bulid the Great Lighthouse? You have some forest to chop it faster and alot of food for whipping, so Fishing, Mining, BW, Sailing, Masonry for tech.
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    Embracing Emperor

    Is it possible, that OP or a player that has BAT provides a worldbuilder save from the starting point for us non-BAT that would like to shadow this?
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    BUFFY, BUG, BULL and BAT

    I don't use any of them in the basic BtS, although I think they are part of some theme-mods (FFH, Planetfall, Final Frontier plus, MoM) I like to play sometimes. I don't like a lot of those options, because it just helps exploiting the AI even further - against normal human players it just...
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    Back In the Saddle: Monarch, Normal, Not Huts, NO Events, Fractal.

    Are you planning to resume this game, i_imperator?
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    Back In the Saddle: Monarch, Normal, Not Huts, NO Events, Fractal.

    @i_imperator: In a mirror-game I did I came up with a position pretty similar of that in your screenshot, only that I had a additional mine on that ghill NWW of the capital. Where did you lose ~7 worker turns? Why did you go for Sailing next? What's your plan? And why? @cseanny: So you went...
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    Back In the Saddle: Monarch, Normal, Not Huts, NO Events, Fractal.

    Stonehenge is no option as long as there's no Mysticism - should've teched that before Bronze. Changing to Hunting when you already had that much turns into AH seems not optimal to me, finishing AH as planned would have let you start pasture the cows immediately after farming the corn. Why...
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    Back In the Saddle: Monarch, Normal, Not Huts, NO Events, Fractal.

    What are you doing with your worker(s) in between? (No roads, no cottages, no chopping). I don't know much about fractal maps (usually play shuffle), but isn't it possible that Pericles is the only other guy around here? What worth is an early Alpha then?
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