Recent content by Etheric

Yeah did try to bribe him when he turned up with his army, but sweden and spain were too far away. Sweden was not actually reachable by land as there was a natural wonder blocking the 1 tile snaking continent. Was looking for a good LP of some early warmongering. The two MadDjinn LPs I watched...

I seem to get a DOW early from the AI quite a lot, often in BC and I have no idea how to deal with this one. If you end up next to a warmonger then he dows you on about turn 70. Given the huge start advantage is this ever winnable? Just tried one starting next to Polynesia and get a turn...

Ok I have failed. Turn 228 is pretty much game over

Ok 104 to 176 The my little empire. Note contains the coal locations, so careful there. Now I could use some help where to go from here if anyone has any suggestions.

Hmm could have used a tag to say you were on T220 there Consentient. That is big spoilers for the people on T100.

Interesting the city placement is pretty much the same as well. Should have put in a screenshot before, so here we go

Firstly I have to say I like this map, it seems quite new to diety friendly, which is good. Anyway got to turn 104

I suspect you would only get one great person in that case, the engine is going to do one thing at a time, so it will add gpp from specialists to gpp total, then check if you have enough to make a great person if it does make a great person, increse the amount needed for the next one. THEN...

Well in defense of the fanboys AI is generally bad in almost all games when the game first comes out. As can be seen from the manual PDFs they were still tuning the game just before release (which in MHO meant they should have delayed a month to finish it, but there you go), and you can't write...

Well there is a lot more to Civ than Civ I. The "dumbed down" is more of a comparison to Civ IV I think than anything else which had so much depth. The buildings got extra bonuses if you had certain resources for example. At high levels it was also necessary to specalise your cities. One for a...

Doh I missed the needs to be played as babylon. Not got that one lol. How does the babylonian special ability work? Guess it is related to the free great scientist you mention above?

Well I managed 100 AD on deity. The problem was I mismanaged my gold so I did not have enouh for a rifle then got stomed by my neighbour before I could build some. Going to give it another go. Not sure about the 3 great scientists thoguh. On normal that is 600 GPP and I had not got that by 100...

I have to say I agree with most of this thread. We have a wargame that has a small base building component. I guess in some ways it IS a slowed down RTS. I don't mind the hexes and the wargame part I think does have promise (once the AI stops sucking so bad at it), but the lack of depth in the...

Rather offtopic, but it is getting annoying that they stop putting manuals in the boxes then make you pay extra for an extended manual/strategy guide.