Recent content by Djinn8

I last played around the release of BNW. I used to win pretty consistantly on Emperor, but struggled with Immortal. Today I reinstalled ciV and started a game on Emperor. It felt really easy. The AI didn't spam cities all over the place, the big expander of the game was Greece who built a...

I would imagine that two games both played the same way would result in the same outcome. The same operations would be being carried out by the program in both cases. The only instance where this would not be the case is when a random number generator is used, for combat calculations, AI...

I think that's the most likely answer. I've had a similar situation happen with Songhai trying to get through a 1 tile mountain pass and refusing to DOW (this was in GK). And I can't count the number of times that the AI has bypassed cities in favor of attacking my cap.

If you've already played as a Euro civ, is there much point in replaying the scenario as a different Euro civ? Or is it pretty much the same experience just with a different starting location and UA?

Venice needs three things to flourish: food, gold and Great Merchant points. With that in mind the four big ancient/classic wonders for Venice are: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: If you have at least two stone/marble then this is a must have. Not too far off the tech path to civil service...

I can see Terracotta being good for a classical start. You start with 2x spearmen, so send one scouting and hopefully upgrade one to a pike. Build 2x archers and either 1x catapult or 1x horseman (preferably both if you can). Tech to comps. Upgrade one archer to comp-bow. Build Terracotta...

England: their advantage is really well spread out, with something unique on offer from medieval to the end of the game, making them a really fun civ to play. Also I like making up city names for England, so that's bonus. Carthage: I just think they have a lot of flavor to them, at least in...

I personally hate starting near Polynesia. They meet every civ and make DOF with them, but if you have close borders they get all uppity, thinking they're hard with their unique warriors. Then war comes and the whole world gets "friends we like more than you have denounced you" modifiers...

Did you know that if you trade your last copy of a luxuary away, CS can ask for you to connect that luxuary resource, meaning you get free influence when the deal ends. Likewise, if a CS asks for a road to be connected, you can build the road and get the influence, then remove the road and the...

Krakatoa?

What list are you talking about? In the test I ran I was been given free ampitheaters from legalism when both they and MPM were available (shirnes and monuments present and 5 followers of Choral Music in the city)

Worker?

I just tested some stuff out. It seems that the bonus from the Choral Music religious belief isn't taken into consideration when taking legalism. It doesn't boost the priority of MPM or allow other civs to get free temples. That's kind of a bummer. Otherwise it seems to be as Horseshoe and...

So it's based on the culture output? If you had +2 culture from temples as part of your religion, would Mud Pyramid Mosques take precedence over monuments?

What is the requirment for getting a free mosque? I a recent game I built four cities - three had shrines and monuments and the fourth had only a monument. When I took legalism I got three mosques, but not one for the shrineless city. After building the shrine I still didn't get a free...