Recent content by drac313

Reduce the amount of city states...really opens up the map and helps load times A LOT!

Rarely. I usually just start another game.

Neb from Babylon for Science Ethiopia or India for Culture China for All around Huns, America, Greece, Russia for War and Expansionism.

The game's poor coding is what makes it slow. However, the game relies heavily on the CPU rather than the GPU. Getting a quad core i5 or i7 processor with 8GB of RAM and a good Video card would be the optimal build.

@rodulfo He means it's all about the money.

- What did you do with the extra space? - I got off slow with the settling, got 4 total up before Japan and India started dominating the Map. - What were your initial priorities?- Desert Folklore and Money - Were there any early wars and who started them?- Conquered London with the help of Oda -...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 50 Date submitted: 2012-12-16 Reference number: 27907 Your name: drac313 Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1952AD Turns played: 373 Base score: 2638 Final score: 3564 Time played: 3:36:00 Submitted save: Maria Theresa_0373 AD-1953.Civ5Save Renamed file...

Well, I guess I am going to be attempting to bring the Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire Back from the brink.

@mgmau Well, in reality, slaves are usually very inefficient. That is one of the reasons why the North was so powerful and rich compared to the south during the civil war. Most of the south's industry was based on slavery compared to wages and paid labor in the north.

GE for Notre Dame. Great Scientist as an alternative. I usually just take the GE and save him, even if I don't really need him at the time.

France by far. I win anytime I play with them...they are just that good.

Holy FARMS!

Before G+K with Patch: Emperor almost always After: King

I played with Ethiopia on Standard, Continents Plus, King difficulty. I plopped down three cities total with one of the cities being in a crap area due to opponent constraints. I was losing scientifically by a long shot to Suleiman, who had 2000 overall victory points while the next closest civ...

GEs are sometimes annoying since you can't use them to rush the manhattan project or nuclear weapons...>(