Recent content by Dux1

This is true, although I've found the real problem isn't with getting the first prophet by normal means -- it's Stonehenge. At least one AI player tends to have the required stone access for it, and with the production bonuses they get I usually see it built much more quickly than any prophet...

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I just recently got back into the game and have noticed the inerrancy with which the AI always picks the same follower beliefs in the same exact order as described by @DanQuayle, and I'm similarly annoyed by this behavior. For one thing, it means it's...

Yikes. OK, that makes much more sense. Thank you both for the clarification.

As of Gathering Storm, if you refuse to make a diplomatic promise (e.g., promise to stop settling so close), the player you wronged is given grievances against you. If you make the promise, you are given Diplomatic Favor instead. That is all well and good, but if you don't make the promise and...

Having played a few games in GS now, I think the core of the climate system is pretty good, but the numbers are off. IMO, it should be tweaked in three ways: The CO2 effect on global temperature should be at least twice as gradual. Currently it seems that once climate change starts, it runs...

The real question is why does the game sometimes give you this information and other times not? There doesn't seem to be any consistent reason why the voting intentions of certain AI civs are revealed. Diplomatic standing doesn't seem to matter.

Related to climate, does anyone know if the various power plant options still cause pollution if the city no longer requires them? For example, if you have a city being powered by coal, but then you build a hydroelectric dam, does the coal power plant still produce pollution even though its...

@Qarnix Thanks for that; I had no idea. Nothing to see here, folks...

Edit: NOT a bug, simply player error. I didn't realize there was a separate project for repairing outer defenses. I have a city with Ancient Walls that sits along a river. I was in the process of upgrading these walls to Medieval Walls when a flood struck. The flood damaged the Ancient Walls as...

Is there any direct control with emergencies, though? Emergencies seem to be the most random part of the World Congress to me. There never seems to be any rhyme or reason to when an emergency will be called or who can vote on it, and if there's a way for the player to directly call an emergency...

I like the idea that a few people have brought up about having two rounds of voting, one to determine A or B and then another separate round to determine the target. This change alone, I think, would go a long way toward making the system more understandable and intuitive. Combined with...

I really enjoyed the World Congress in Civ5: BNW. While it was not without its problems (mostly tied to the problem of being able to easily buy off city-state for votes), I found that overall, it was an interesting, intuitive and impactful addition to the game. As a refresher, here's how it...

How do you even request aid after a natural disaster? I've had countless occur, but I've never had the opportunity to request aid. Is there a damage threshold you need to meet, I wonder?

This is a great guide. I have a couple of questions, though: When you talk about shared grievances, does that mean that any grievances I receive, my ally gets half of? For example, if I declare a surprise war against Korea, and Russia is my ally, does Russia receive 75 grievances with Korea for...

Just had another military emergency occur later in the same game. This time the target was Australia, a civ I had denounced. Nevertheless, I was inexplicably not allowed to vote on the proposal once again. It seems to me that when an emergency occurs and who gets to have a say in it is just...