Recent content by Gdek

Okay, I haven't played much Civ recently, but I just installed BtS, and have been having my backside handed to me. I typically play on Noble/Prince, but in BtS it's like the difficulty has been bumped up two levels. Any tips to help smooth the new learning curve? Gdek

If I'm not running a civic that gives a military police bonus, I don't even keep units in cities that are not on my borders or the coast. What's the point really? Depending on the state of my border, I rarely have more than 2 or 3 units in the cities. The rest are stationed in a position...

I'm assuming 1 from the plains.

Well, here's a typical example from my current game. City is Hastings, with the following terrain in the fat cross. 2 Plains Hills (mined + rr) = 6+6 hammers 2 Forests (1 grass, 1 plain, both with lumbermills + rr) = 3+4 h 2 plains (towns on each) = 2+2 1 grass (town) = 1 1 grass...

Space Elevator also needs to be built relatively close to the equator. Not sure what the acceptable distance is, but your city definitely can't be near either of the poles.

@Zurai That hasn't been my experience. I had excellent relations with Hatty one game (as Qin), and had for the entire game (+11 to 13). I was first in score and she was fourth of seven. I proposed a defensive pact, and five turns later she accepted the PA. I also noted that if you and...

@Jeremiah Excellent point. I try for at least 9 cities in order to insure I can go for a culture victory. Nine cities with 2-5 religions will make a cultural victory much easier. That +50% culture for each cathedral is killer. I think the key is getting to 3-5 cities until you get...

I seem to end up with Monte, Izzy and Alex in every game that I play. Monte - Raving psychotic. I can never get him to be friends for any worthwhile amount of time, and he'll attack at the drop of a hat. It's important to spank him hard and keep your guard up. Alex - Even if you make him...

Lots of interesting submissions. Definitely seems clear to me that those who picked a victory type early and pushed hard towards it scored higher than people like me who hedged our bets. I also didn't have Open Borders with Alex, but I found the war really easy, losing only 2 Praetorians the...

Here's a link to my initial spoiler Polished the Greeks off pre 1000AD, and met Bismark and Monte on the same turn about twenty turns later. At this point, I should have decided what victory to go for, but I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Monte and Bismark were too far along for...

I founded on the starting spot and started scouting around. As luck would have it, I found Alexander's Scout almost right away (within 10 turns or so). Guessed where his scout had come from, and shortly thereafter found Athens. I knew I wanted Agri soon, but with the Greeks so close wanted...

I often get a "Our close borders spark tension" rated from -1 to -3. Particularly in my current game where Louis has a peninsula of land running between the heartland of my empire and Cathy's. Of course, it didn't seem to create to much tension between them, when the buggers declared war on...

Just picked up my copy at EB Games at Dufferin Mall.

EB Games at Dufferin Mall (just south of Dufferin Station) has about a dozen copies.

Just checked with them and they are now all sold out. Wish I knew about that place when I was downtown earlier today. Gdek