Recent content by DonChipotle

SV 255 Settled on Wine Patheon: Fertility Rites. I think this was a big mistake. There wasn't much for the builder to improve at that point in the game. I think God of the Sea would have been better. Did not found a religion. Completely ignored faith. Not sure if I should have focused on...

Domination Victory T:161 Score: 1105 I tried an archer rush on Mongolia first but I got pushed back, while barbs simultaneously attacked my territory from two directions. This was a setback early, but the only setback. The second push with horses destroyed Mongolia. From then on it was mostly...

Acken, how did you get enough happiness to settle so many cities so early? I saw there was a lot of space, but few unique luxes. There was a lot of salt, but the AI didn't ever get any extra luxes to trade (for me). I went 4 city tradition, but I ended up having to sell the salt to gift to...

Yeah, hopefully though they can still tell. Like if you have researched the entire tech tree on turn 200 but are only generating 400bpt, it's kind of obvious what you did. But people might be able to be more subtle about it.

I was excited to play this GOTM, because I figured for the first time ever I could post a finish time competitive with the pros (since sacred sites is so easy). I played completely peacefully so it was a very quick game. My strategy was to go Piety, ICS and carefully time Carnaval for the win...

Same reason you can't have Piety and Rationalism. They wanted you to have to choose between different compelling options. The only thing that throws off the balance is that Liberty and Freedom are so awesome, and Autocracy is so meh. They need to balance the game a bit more so that it's...

The hilarious thing about this is it should theoretically be possible to win a domination victory without ever having a war.

Civ 5 has enough problems on normal settings, the thought of playing it on marathon makes me ill. If I played half a marathon game and then couldn't finished it I'd be devastated.

You might consider staying on three or so cities and puppet the rest, as aimlessgun did in his Deity rifle rush game. Maybe 3-6 cities. You can conquer and still get lots of policies. I'd aim for 12 policies for the game. Is it too late to get the oracle? Also, I think you should delay...

I'd like to add that you should check in periodically on which AI's can be bribed to war on other AI's. Usually the AI with the largest army in demographics will DoW anyone else for 100-200 gold. This can be a great way to keep them busy, keep their army sizes from getting out of control, and...

Autocracy would be awesome to see. I've never used it because Freedom is so good.

Thanks for the story! Diety is really hard when you get attacked early. Especially when one of them is Alex, with Hoplites and Companion Cavalry. Something like this happens to me in about 3/4 Diety attempts, but if I make it through those crucial first 80 turns without being declared on by...

It's certainly a good strategy, but on Emperor or lower I think a lot of different strategies are viable. I think it's been the case in every civ game that conquering a neighbor and then leveraging the additional land and resources to gain an advantage that ultimately leads to whatever...

In the advanced settings, there's something called "disable start bias." I assume this means that the game does try to start civs in a spot that's beneficial for their UA. Presumably, if you check "disable start bias" this will no longer be the case.

Good job on the win, especially with the surprise patch changes. Any idea how close Hiawatha was to launching the ship? The end actually seemed kind of dramatic to me (although maybe it wasn't).