Recent content by EustaceMonk

What about upgrading navies? How exactly is cost calculated? I didn't follow Ghpstage's post exactly.

But why not upgrade your maces to rifleman? A rifleman with city raider is a very powerful unit. So are you suggesting then that all the time spent building up units should be scrapped when a newer, more powerful unit is researched? What then? Build new units and disband your old ones? It...

If there is post about this somewhere, I obviously missed, so feel free to point me in the right direction. The cost of maintaining cities increases with difficulty level, I know. I rush toward Currency and Code of Laws for courthouses, but in the end, with courthouses in the cities, I just...

I like how tectonic maps allow for a "real" earth type feel, but the terrain is terrible! So many plains! Is there a better version of this map script around somewhere? And, no, I don't want a real earth map that never changes.

I don't know if others have this issue, but some maps don't appear in my Play Now map choice options. Custom Game for me has more map choices (not just one's that I've loaded on either!).

On a random side note, money is NOT the root of evil. In most, if not all, of the English translations of the Bible, it reads that the LOVE of MONEY is the root of all evil. Ergo, head for currency!

AP wins are too easy? Whenever I've tried for one, I've never gotten it (can't seem to swing the diplomacy quite right yet, I guess). However, I have won AP victories on accident (if that's even possible).

When I first started, I played the tutorial. However, the tutorial doesn't really teach you anything. It gives you the very basics of the basics, which won't really help you win too much (except maybe Warlord difficulty or below). What I did to learn the game was play a few levels on...

I've been a lurker here for years and just recently got an account, but I've read nearly all of your previous RPCs and have been following your new ones. I've been wondering when you would make a Star Trek themed one given that the new version is TNG! Is there a Star Wars one in the future...

I only play at Prince, but I'm very near to moving up to Monarch. Is the decision to move a settler dependent on level? I've never moved the settler in any of my games (well, maybe once when I started on a flood plain and could move 1 space to a river plain and still settle-avoids the...

Thanks for the info on the boats. Also thank you for telling me to look in the combat log. I've actually never looked at it before, and it contains some interesting information about fights that I didn't know. It seems no matter how much you play this game, there's always something new to learn!

Well, if I remember correctly, my chance to win against a barb galley with another galley (no promotions) is 34.6% (I believe). Even with a Combat I promotion, it barely goes above 50%. Dice and random numbers hate me. While playing a game last night, I rolled a die four times in a row and...

But even when I do defend I usually lose (probably a good 2 out of every 3 times). Maybe the numbers just hate me...dice hate me.

I've been playing civ a while now, but one thing that keeps nagging me and causing great frustration are boats! It seems that whenever I build them, they are easily destroyed, yet I can't seem to defeat other boats. For instance, the ever wonderful galley is built early to attempt to protect...

1. 3 food resources is good, but do you also have river access? If so, farm a lot of it! You could also put a few workshops on the grasslands to get an up on production, but don't sacrifice the food! 2. You don't get much production in these cities in my experience. I usually end up whipping...