Recent content by ForkOfSpite

Amazing timing - first day I've visited this forum in about two years. Maybe longer. To Nizef - well done!

Completed EDGE #86 - T293 SV. This is the first Deity win I've had where no AI DOW'd me. In the end, Alex and Sejong were the main threats. It's a bit ridiculous that Alex didn't find a way to win - he dominated all facets of the game. How to roll through Shaka: Ideologies: Techs...

One way to roll through Shaka

I concur with Nizef - well done. I'm still playing, but my prospects look iffy (plus, I've already failed once). They'd almost certainly be better if I had gone to war or even if I had sponsored wars. Instead, I built enough units early so that Genghis (nor anyone else) DOW'd me. Without...

On my next attempt, I'll definitely settle on the referenced tile (desert river hill W of the marble). I chose settling directly on the marble so a worker didn't have to improve a tile I'd rarely (never?) work and to give the tile the city food & production bonus to make it reasonable. The...

First attempt - failure. Resigned on turn 76 after failing to defend New York. An interesting challenge might be to recover from massive setbacks, but that would be for a different thread. New York forward settles an aggressive neighbor and it's open to attack, but I want that expansion -...

edge#86-1

On Deity, I haven't been prepared well enough for potential early DOWs - will try EDGE#86 to see if I can manage it. Hopefully, first try; otherwise, I'll use it as another lesson map to practice.

In transitioning to higher difficulty levels, a big adjustment might be to use the AIs more and more to steal workers, sell resources, and trade routes. At lower levels, the AIs are unable to get their economies going early, but at higher levels, it's pretty easy to use the AIs for your gold...

Enjoyed. Science victory on turn 298.

Finally finished this one - was distracted for ages replaying the first 50 turns or so to get two easy quests plus rescuing a worker (all for the same CS). Turn 228 DomV:

Out of curiosity, do you remember where you settled the southern expansion? If I were to settle that area and include the spices, I guess I'd choose the plains tile between the horses and salt, but then I'd need to buy tiles to the spices. If I were to settle closer to the spices, the city's...