Recent content by EK834

200 turns into my first game with the patch. Only one issue so far (beside the DLC being disabled at first): the huge Islands map I got makes no sense whatsoever. Half the map is a continent full of big lakes instead of the usual islands. A city-state popped up a few turns in the game, just 4...

Indeed, it wasn't meant to be a strategy but rather comments on why the Prince level seems slower science-wise with BNW/post-patch than it was in G&K or Vanilla. I don't have a strategy to offer for Prince, I find that level too much of a sandbox. But King is an easy solution to that. Prince...

I'm pretty sure he meant most of his games end when no one including him has gone through the modern era techs, the bottom of the tree anyway. Quite a few Prince players have complained about either this, some have even reported it as "a bug", or about the AI falling so much behind it's...

Denouncements are never specific and what triggers them for one Civ don't carry over to the other Civs. The only sort of "denouncement" that carries over isn't the denouncement mechanics, but the specific denouncement-like diplo hit you get for betraying a promise. D and E will be influenced...

joncnunn has already provided excellent advice that I concur can work just as well on lower levels than Immortal/Deity (I follow loosely the same strategy on Emperor, and I did on King for my first few Venice games to learn BNW mechanics). The most dangerous situation for Venice is to start...

Which is what make it fun, IMO. Diplo victory has become too easy for me (it's fun to try to make it happen as early as possible, but even that gets old fast), it's what I might try if I decide to play a Deity game with Venice, but currently on Emperor the two fun victories for me are SV and...

You're welcome, and personally I never plant a MoV for a CH. What I do with those I get in the late game is move them in advance to CS and leave them there, waiting. Then I use them or not, for Trade Missions if I suddenly need that 6000 gold or the 60 influence, or eventually to grab a...

And that only if you play a Venice game in which you can afford to fall behind or at least not take a good lead. In most CV (and of course SV) games as Venice you also want as many GS as possible. Very tall Puppets will provide MoVs along the way whether you want or not anyway. Many Venice...

I play Venice on Emperor, but most of that SV strategy also worked on King, though it was a bit slower. For sure this start isn't optimal, I'm fairly casual a player and I don't care that much to finish as early as possible (below turn 400, though. I play Marathon, but I'd say I usually win a...

It depends. In the late game, even if you give an AI an extra 6-8 beakers from a TR, when it produces a few hundreds per turn and techs cost several thousands beakers, it's totally meaningless and you shouldn't worry about that and just pick the most lucrative TR and that's all, or factor in...

It's possible in Civ 5 only with Mods. The one I use (Global Relations) only keeps track of OB, DP, Denouncements, DoF, Wars, treasuries and gpt, which resources everyone has and military strength relative to yours (and this last is vague: weak, inferior, similar, strong, powerful...

It's much the same for me. I've never been in any real danger of losing by Diplo as all my strategies incl. having a lot of CS allies. Worse case scenario: before I win, Alex gets the lead at the first session for WL, and might win on the second session if I don't win by SV/CV before then, but...

No, the number of votes necessary goes down. I've not yet had any problem with the WC in over 15 Venice games, including some in which Austria also married CS. The only time the Diplo Vict became very hard was when Casimir and Genghis went berserk capturing CS (I think they captured 6-7...

That's the problem. By the human this should be used almost only in synergy with a friendship or alliance with the CS. It's then that the benefit isn't insignificant. It stretches your alliance by many several turns. It's as a long term measure it's worth it: you can save a substantial...

That would make it too easy to win by the first session, and if there was a runaway in the game, he would win it in place of the human... It woud need to be rebalanced, with a higher percentage of the vote etc. They increased it in the patch so you pretty much need the extra delegates from...