Recent content by Ergo Sum

I picked up Antichamber Endless Space X3: Reunion for $17.50. Anyone played them?

No it's like Civ, Obama had too many diplo hits on the Republicans...

See, this is the really unattractive side of Civ fandom, who treat 95% of players like dirt-eating proles. Unalloyed negativity. Certainly there are some high-level players out there who may not get much out of most of the stuff online because the majority of players are amateurs, or people who...

Did you open liberty? Seems like the logical option would be to cap Rome and rex the rest of the continent. What level is this?

I've also found (YMMV) that razing cities will piss off anyone and everyone who knows you. It's really put a damper on my warring since BNW...

My three points: 1. The idea of a multiracial society is less offensive to privileged Americans than to privileged Europeans; principally because in the former racial difference has been a social fact since at least the 1600s, and in the latter whites are more used to administering colored...

Even at emperor the size of someone's military doesn't make a big difference as much as having a competent army. For instance early game a solid phalanx of 4-5 comp. bows can defend a city against an army twice its size. Thank 1upt and ranged attacks for that. Even at immortal you can finish...

It ought to be mentioned that the 'real-life cases' of arts being stolen were perpetrated almost exclusively by the Europeans who colonized a given part of the world (whether India, Africa, China, SE Asia, and so on), that is if they didn't burn it right out (ask the Aztecs about this). So the...

Finish t212 dom! yay!

Took the jump from Emperor!

Provocative thought, though I find I simply do much better with Tradition nowadays, liberty leaves me without money, woeful population, and sluggish economy. That's probably a personal defect. But then it seems like liberty would be the case where food routes prove even more useful to catch up...

Generally, religion on Emperor is very doable, but not necessarily desirable. Hearing about civs enhancing religions (or even hitting Reformation) should not deter you because a) it means they're not going for more valuable SPs and b) the ones who get there first rarely take the good beliefs...

I have been experimenting with using trade routes almost entirely for food. Playing as the Dutch I had first one then eventually (on average) three different land routes feeding my (inland) capital; I ended up at size 15 in the capital by ~t100, ~30 by t200, and 50 by t300 with accompanying...

I suspected this would happen once I got a fair look at the map. :P You should be able to settle the new world without astronomy, unless there's another landmass beyond the big one to the west...

You should need astronomy although I haven't done Terra before.