Recent content by Evgenij

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    Beyond Earth + Explanets + Rising Tide for $15

    I was very disappointed that they did not add ability to destroy ANY environment and ability to free aim. This was basically the reason why I played original X-COM. Seriously, if guys from 1992 could do it with their 1992 developers tools, then I can't understand how could firaxis fail to...
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    How to Survive Rising Tide Apollo

    * Keep in mind that energy is weak resource. 3-4 energy ~= 1 hammer (depending on what you buy and at what game speed). Some virtues are a complete waste of points, like that +5 energy to capital. But +100 energy per turn ~= 25-33 hammers is ok for a single point. * I usually pick up that...
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    Affinity progression is too fast!

    Affinity progression should match the average game length. By the time someone is completing their victory conditions - end-game units should already be running on the map (with their last upgrades). With current system any progression speed will automatically match, except for contact victory.
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    How often do you move sea based cities and why?

    I usualy do it like this: 1) Found new city on water about 6-7 tiles away from other cities. 2) Build trade depot and trade routes to increase production. 3) Move city as close as possible to my other cities (usually 2 tiles between cities), to avoid being captured by enemy in a single turn and...
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    Random Observation: Players do compete for Artifacts

    I see nothing wrong with idea of having to compete for artifacts with other players. They should however tone down some artifact rewards - right now you can win the game simply by being lucky. And how do you play a game with 12 AI/Players? I could add only add 1 (me) + 9 (AI) = 10 slots to...
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    Do sea monsters normally attack embarked explorers?

    Assuming we are talking about Rising Tide - sea creatures never attack explorer, unless: 1) My explorer was near their nest (2 hexes maybe). Note: they will attack even if you don't see nest itself (like vision blocked by a hill). 2) I destroyed their nest recently, making all aliens angry at...
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    I just played my first Gemini difficulty game in BERT and won with ease

    AI does some really stupid things, like: 1) Moving units in groups and ignoring enemies that fire 3 tile away at them. This allows you to reduce enemy army in half in couple of turns without suffering a single loss (usually happens in naval combat). 2) Embarking units in fire range of ranged...
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    Too many resourses via trade routes (BERT)

    I did alliance with AI, sent a couple of trade routes (AI did the same) and I ended having 50+ resource of every type (having 1-10 before this alliance). This completely breaks "strategic" part about those resource - since they are basically unlimited once you form an alliance. There is now no...
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    Might Virtues

    You can take that diplomatic trait, that adds +12 science per deal you make. Make 5 deals and that's +60 science per turn. I've got it by the time I had like 10 science per turn, increasing my science by a freaking 6x. Combine it with PAC leader and you can get every single wonder before AI can...
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    How to disable melee boats?

    There is also tier 3 melee units which can travel 4 hexes both by sea and by land. They even have upgrade (in supremacy) that allows unit to ignore zone of control. With strength of 40-60 they can insta-capture most naval cities. If boats are OP - then those units are even more OP.
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    How to disable melee boats?

    Just focus on killing enemy units. Water City have like 10 strength and can't do any high damage to you. Once you killed most of his units - capture city. It's as simple as that.
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    Affinities you aren't going for should stop growing at some point.

    It's only easy to get them because of stupid AI - he does not focus on getting progenitor ruins/device expeditions. It won't work against human opponent who does the same. So, what should be fixed is AI.
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    Might Virtues

    If you can get good quality artifact with culture bonus, and use it to imitatively get to lvl 3 might, then yes - it offers large advantage in science in early game.
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    No affinity xp from expeditions at Appollo?

    I do get Affinity XP on Apollo difficulty when doing some expeditions (like Progenitor Ruins, Cracken Nest, Alien Remains) in Rising Tide expansion. Not 100% of the time though.
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    PAC personality trait upgrades.

    It would still require doing research first. For example: There are 2 great wonder that you can get in early game: Panopticum (+1 visibility) and Gene Vault (free worker for new cities). If you play PAC and focus on Gene Vault, and player X (non-PAC) focus on Panopticum - then by the time you...
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