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Popping in for a brief AAR and observations in case they might help somebody. We played the duel yesterday. There was a difficulty dropdown after both players names, we set it to prince for both but no idea what the effect was. Is it to set happiness caps differently for both players? Or is it...

Also one slightly different question - has anyone tried to handle the simultaneous moves so that you have agreed that one player always moves his front line units first and then the other one goes? That would help with the clickfest issues, even though of course needs to be based on gentleman's...

Considering it was the AI, he probably didn't have much of a winning plan, either :lol:

Thanks, nice comments! I am not that worried about making it perfectly fair (at least there is something then to blame a loss on =), just enough so that one side doesn't get completely hosed. I agree on wanting to keep the barbs on, gives something interesting to do near the start. Can you...

Hi, My friend and I want to try a duel in ciV, at least in there the horrible AI won't be ruining the experience... What settings do you suggest? On/off I tried a test duel against AI yesterday on immortal, duel size fractal map, city states off. I noticed that the barbarians get really...

This post by Luddite is the one that made the connection: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9851250&postcount=321 Here Sullla lists the problems without making the connection to 1upt a few pages earlier: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9850875&postcount=313

I disagree. That it is a hollow remake of its predecessors does make it more disappointing, yes, but even looking it as a game in general I think it is quite bad. The only good thing about it is that it made me look into civ4, which I'd barely touched before.

I am also very disappointed in the latest civ and I share most of Sulllas concerns. I wouldn't blame everything on 1upt (like bad testing, lack of polish and documentation, cutting features like statistics and replays, unacceptably poor AI etc), though. Also, I see why they tried to take the...

I prefer my games unbroken, thank you. The difficulty setting is there for selecting an appropriate challenge, I don't want my choice to be effectively changed after I start the game.

Exactly, protested that 500 gold already in another thread. I was going to test the new patch at immortal to see how difficult it was, but had to start over after getting a game changing 500 gold at turn 7. And seems fountain of youth is even more over powered... If there ever was talk about...

500 gold for first to find el dorado? Feels very overpowered and annoying due to it's total randomness.

I am a bit worried about the need for iron, too, just coming out from a Balance modded game where I lost the race to only nearby iron resource so had none. It is not viable to get it via trades, either, as said AI values it too much (wisely, perhaps =). Balance mod buffs city strenghts and...

Thanks Thal for making the game playable while waiting official fixes. If I could convince you to change one thing then it would be making cities easier to capture... Over 200 city strenght is silly, but worst is that it is just generally too difficult to take cities now. It makes the game too...

Originally Posted by Mikkow: How about simultaneous turn mode normally, then when two human players are at war with each other, they go into turn-based mode? This would be my preferred option as well. Just wanted to ask - if you are playing against a friend, is there anything keeping you...

You are missing the two worst issues that 1upt creates: 1. game balance is completely changed to limit the army sizes to make it manageable 2. AI will never be even close to human in combat tactics so military conquest will remain the easiest way to beat the computer Number one I won't touch...