Recent content by ellgieff

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    Did the Great Cartographer die?

    I don't really understand this. If you want to actually test a new strategy, a bad start is the thing you want - because that will actually test the power of the strategy
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    Early modern tech tree makes no sense.

    The thing is that you're only referring to _some_ realism. Gameplay + Realism = playing as Rome your game ends around 600AD. Playing as America you don't get to start until the 17th Century. And the point has been made (already) that you're only considering this aspect unrealistic...
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    Do you ever DEMAND?

    Found this: http://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1fxrbe/how_to_demand_from_those_pesky_ais_and_succeed/ I can't confirm the correctness of this, but the poster seems pretty certain of their statements Here's how to get AIs to accept your demands: Conditions where AI will never accept no matter...
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    Do you ever DEMAND?

    There's also a limit to what you can demand, apparently. I've seen a thread on here where someone posted the formula.
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    OMG, I was attacked!

    I play on King. I've played 4 games of BNW now - the first I abandoned early, the second Bismarck eliminated me, the 3rd I won as Poland without being attacked, the 4th I abandoned mid-game after having been DOW'd by 3 separate CiV's (in response to me eliminating Polynesia) - 2 of whom were in...
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    Are the three ideologies a little too simplistic?

    Incorrect. But thanks for playing! see also: Anarcho-Syndicalism
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    Fall patch

    Great Firewall isn't even a thing - that one gets a pass as imagined. Both the ISS and the Hubble are buildings, though. They're buildings in Space, but they're buildings. Hollywood is a suburb, that happens to have a conglomeration of movie studios there. It's not even the most...
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    Why so much unhappiness for the Freedom ideology?

    America is a republic, yes. But the electoral college system means it's not even close to being a democracy, and is certainly not a representative democracy. On topic, I recently enjoyed a game as Poland where I was aiming for a culture victory, got to an ideology first (I really like the...
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    Why so much unhappiness for the Freedom ideology?

    Wait, what? If the USSR ideology had won the cold war (Not a Communist country, never was), US citizens would _clearly_ have asked for the same thing that the people of that union had. Freedom doesn't necessarily bring happiness. And what the USA has isn't Freedom (or democracy).
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    This game is straight up broken (in MP)

    *snip* no need to quote the whole thing. Nothing like that has happened to me. You have my sympathy
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    Wtf the Soldiers from XCOM: Enemy Unknown are in this game!

    You mean like, give me the option to build them? That would be awesome, I wonder if there's any way I could choose not to build a particular unit ...
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    Rebalance to early game aggression: Fun read

    Wait, what? I'm not aware of us having any problems, perhaps you're thinking of someone else? I'm still not personally convinced that the early AI aggression is a problem. I work as a software developer, and I'm aware of the issues caused by fixing things that aren't necessarily broken...
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    Rebalance to early game aggression: Fun read

    Bro, every thread you've made on this has seemed completely unreasonable to me. Because no matter how often evidence that argues against your conclusion (there are no early wars, and the game is borked because of it) is presented, you ignore it. The AI appears to be more sensible about when...
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    Building Archeologists

    I opened the save, opened Venice's city screen and changed the production from Submarine to Archaeologist. Worked perfectly, said it was going to take 7 turns.
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    Sick of people making excuses for 2000 years of peace

    You know, I can't make what he said match up with what you claimed he said in any way at all. Small sample sizes? Check. Confirmation Bias? Check. I'm pretty sure there's a Texas Sharpshooter in here somewhere as well ... Do not answer to flaming post, report them instead please.
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