Recent content by elley

Awesome! I will check that. :)

I play on European servers, they all seem down as I cannot even log in on the 2 or 3 servers that are 'live' in the list. Sun is already down, so can't look at that. I'm too old to play outside. And when I play Civ, I might get hooked on it again, and do nothing else but playing Civ for...

All World of Warcraft servers I have characters on are down and so are the battle.net forums. :( My life is empty now. Suggestions?

On immortal, I managed a cultural win, science win, domination win, and of course diplomatic win, so it's definatly possible. I didn't say it was easy, but then, that's one of the complaints they also have. :) I did deity once for the achievement, but other than that, I rather not play that...

If you play "the normal way", you can easily attain size 30+ cities and reach well over 120hammers / turn while still making plenty of gold. Just because skipping 90% of all buildings because it suits ICS better, doesn't mean these buildings are as bad as you make it seem. If you then switch to...

You could say diplomacy is an alternative science victory, first one to hit the tech and build the wonder wins.

Lurker Maritimes are probably the only thing that need to be addressed, especially when combined with ICS what tile improvements are concerned. I don't believe the tile improvement problem itself is as big as many believe. If you don't plant your cities carefully with some key resources...

Someone here didn't watch Braveheart.

Cultural. I hated the theatre as a kid and now that I have the chance to be a brutal dictator, I shall force all my puny mortal servants to go. mwaahaha

In Civ II, I once had my super capital, which I used for production, and there I was building nukes to spread over my empire. I was still in peacetime, so I was just relaxing. Then all of a sudden, the enemy used my vast railroad network against me, sending a single unit straigt to my capital...

Civ II People who didn't vote Civ II should buy the Civilization collection box and play Civ II. Then they should come back here and change their vote. :scan:

Puppet / annex and then trade them for gold. You have an option "City" in the diplomacy > Trade screen.

I've seen Russian submarines sink for less. I also don't see much value in this feature. As said, only for a brief period in history, submarines were really undetectable. With sonar, they are just another bleep on the radar.

I let them destroy theirself. Once they lose their entire army by city defence or at allied city states, they offer me all their gold for 10 turns. I like to believe they learned their lesson after that. :)

Yesterday, I beat the AI on immortal difficulty with a diplomatic win, when the AI only needed 1 more booster for his Space ship, so it was just a matter of turns. He was on a continent of his own, after an early extermination of his local rival, and I pretty much left him alone. Had to rush...