Recent content by Feanor_

I realise there have been external monitor problems going back years, but reading over historical posts in various forums they seem to have been fixed at times only to recur. No-one seems to have complained since last year though, so I'm not sure if it's an issue for others too or if there's a...

You're not the only one. My pre-update save is unplayable so I started again and, nearly 100 turns in, my new game is unplayable too. What start of as frequent freezes that last for a few seconds to a minute get worse and worse until the game keeps just completely freezing up and needs to be...

Interesting perspectives, thanks. My mistake though - it wasn't the Aztecs who wiped me out but another similar civ. Anyway, in case anyone's interested in playing the first 50 turns or so here's the save starting the game. I initially thought it was a strong starting position, so if you want to...

Good question. Yeah I'm using the new Barbarian Clans mode - I certainly find Barbs more of a challenge too, but would that affect the AI going to war so early before I've been able to put down any infrastructure at all? I'm able to get out one Scout, and maybe one or even just half a Settler...

Immortal :) I hid that in my first para ;) I was able to beat it fairly consistently on Immortal before but now it's a real struggle for survival

Is it just me, or is the AI on Immortal much more aggressive since the Feb update? I don't seem to be able to continue my successful game from before the update because, as often seems to happen when updates come out and I'm mid-game, it's gone unstable after loading from the save. So while...

Thanks. That confirms what I thought about my fundamental strategy errors, in particular around waiting too long for optimal placement especially when it comes to the government plaza. I do often tend to be over-cautious. I think where I've also been struggling is getting the timing right when...

Thanks. To be honest I took those screenshots a day or twoago and just didn't get round to posting here - I'd already done most of the things you suggest and this is where I'm at now, 34 turns later. (I was saving the gold cause I was builing Big Ben but the AI beat me to it.) I was never...

I thought I'd cracked Immortal, but on my current game one of the AIs completely snowballed on science. In like 1150 / Turn 176, Kongo was in the Industrial era; by 1635 / Turn 238 they were in the Information Era and generating 552 science to my 210. I think my main mistake was not expanding...

Well I wrote my initial version of that post in a fit of rage, and if this mod didn't go so far or make it so hard to earn era score in the higher difficulty levels I wouldn't mind. But on the higher difficulties the AI often just takes off with their development, making eras incredibly short. I...

I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. Having no Normal age is just stupid and it's ridiculous that you can basically losing a game because you're short on one era score between Dark and Golden. I'd pretty much cracked the game on Immortal - but as far as I can see this stupid Dramatic Ages mode...