Recent content by FractalAdvocate

If you saved a configuration, loaded it, and used it again with the exact same settings, you should get the exact same game -- saving configurations includes saving the seed, unless you delete or alter it, and that's where it comes from. Otherwise, it should be extremely unlikely unless it a...

It'd be nice if flatland farms next to water or acquducts got +1 food from the start, so flatland could at least situationally be better for population growth. Would also make aquducts better.

Yeah, promises are not nearly clear enough. I'd like for there to be clear rules for what counts as too close -- no more than one troop on/in borders, or within two of their borders if not yours, maybe. Maybe that's a rough promise, but at least you'd know what you're giving up/how not to break...

I think having leaders speak their own language is in a large part to make porting the game to other languages cheaper. Unless VA changes in cost by CivVII or Firaxis becomes a much bigger deal, I doubt that'll change in the nearish future. Fan voice mods if/when we have full modding access...

Tech which isn't a prerequisite for any other tech.

Wait, emergencies scale with game speed? That's wierd to me -- these are goals primarily affected by combat and loyalty mechanics, which don't scale. I guess you can also build new units for them. Hmm. They're 20 turns with online speed, which feels pretty good in my experience, although the...

EDIT: i was horribly wrong, misinformation deleted

huge, pangaea, old, arid -- ai functions better when there's almost no terrain they have to deal with

Trade Routes take Lighthouse or Market now. If it's not that, idk.

In-game: yes, agreed. Victoria posted a quite long guide at https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/culture-victory-guide.25713/ -- it's for vanilla rather than R&F, but I don't think that much has changed.

Without any other data, I'd guess Korea had a huge science output, and completed the Launch Moon Landing project, which gives 10x science output as culture. I'm unsure if this is multiplied by the AI getting science% and/or culture% boosts on higher difficulties, but that may factor into that.

I often feel the opposite, at least early game -- 'I gotta get a city up over there to shore up my loyalty from that civ!'

If I understand correctly: the AI is exactly the same on all difficulties, except for a couple limitations like it literally will not start wars on Settler. The AI attacks when it feels it has a good chance to pull something off, and it having more resources/military tech/whatever will increase...

I definitely agree with #2, unsure about the rest.

AFAIK the AI hasn't gotten more advantages vs the player than it already had, but it's a somewhat better AI, familiar with the expansion, and it's starting strategy tends to be better/more aggressive. I've had to step down a difficulty leve The bonuses it gets on King mean you're playing on an...