Recent content by Fish Man

First, and within a minute of posting, wow! Single clam doesn’t seem promising but unless warrior finds something amazing PH is decent SIP I guess…

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Posted 4 minutes ago, huh? I don’t think I’ve ever been this early to an NC. Let’s see if we can impi rush somebody…

You're right about one thing, this game is ridiculous. Then after getting fed a bunch of techs by a helpful Mansa I libbed communism less than 40 turns later, on t124. That's 225AD communism on deity standard speed, and with a rather cringe capital/rush targets in comparison (cap had a...

My Oracle date was around 850BC. On monarch you can usually afford to try for it that late. And even if you fail to get it, on a map like this, math + CoL aren't bad pickups. You can just then hard-tech CS yourself or pivot over to HBR/construction rush with the bajillion commerce you have.

Gave this one a shot; been a while since I played on monarch. This is quite a fun map. Given that it was monarch and I had triple gems... Now it's 150BC and I have maces; meanwhile nobody else has monarchy even. I also built Great Lighthouse and Colossus in Angkor Thom (double fish cow copper...

Probably an anti-frustration feature, same with AIs not declaring on friendly/some at pleased. In fact, if you pop borders to completely "cut off" a piece of land they want to settle while their settler is en route, they will very likely turn their settler party around. This is why creative is...

I build the mythical S-tier wonder known as "20 cuirassiers". It's the only wonder in the game that lets you take any other wonders you want from the AI :).

I finished a game on this map but I have a tendon injury that hurts quite a bit so...I'll try to post it as soon as I can.

Balance. All 3 crazy high commerce early game mining resources (4-8 commerce available at literally one of the first-tier techs of the ancient era) have some sort of terrain debuff if they're not in a civ's BFC (or BFC + 1 ring). Silver spawns on tundra, gems in jungle, and gold very frequently...

I don't want to jinx this, but I think I'm actually going to pull it off...details to come tomorrow or later.

I've read the link and more or less understand the mechanics behind it. I just don't see how it's relevant on standard completely randomly-generated fractal deity games, where those strategies are often not viable in a timely manner (and some people, like me, don't play with BUFFY). If they...

@drewisfat . help me understand here: how exactly do you use failgold, and with what wonders? A lot of the early wonders seem to come at a time where it seems far more essential to put OF into settlers and workers and granaries, maybe libraries. They also may go before you even have a chance to...

So I've been meaning to make a list like this for a long time myself, but I just never got around to it, being busy and all. Well, now that you've gone ahead and made a thread in my stead, I may as well chip in my two cents. If we're ranking traits by their deity fractal competitiveness...

This capital looks awful. Maybe settle on wine and size 1 settler to find better lands...