Recent content by Gold Ergo Sum

I want to second this thought. Too many turns where everyone but 1-2 teams play in the first 12 hours, and then it still takes another 36 hours for the turn to roll. At that pace, this game may take two years. At least while the world remains relatively peaceful, we should be able to knock...

I was directed here to post my concerns. The ruleset may be great or flawed in various and sundry ways, but I have mostly ignored the setup discussion to this point because it has been too long, too heated, and often too mundane for me to take interest. But this particular provision struck me...

Jon Shafer really hates RB2. And puppies.

I haven't played the game outside of RB2 since early October and I don't have any interest in Civ V. That said, for the sake of completion, I have no objection to finishing this off if we can get 3-4 turn players. I just don't want to have to play more than once a week or so.

I would've played out the string on this SG if we had a full crew, but I don't see the point in just trading it back and forth between two people. If the bug gets fixed, I can be reached by PM and will finish the game out. I stick with commitments that I make. But as Kylearan said, Civ V has...

I took screenshots, but none of them seem to have saved. Oh well. We're at -10 happiness. The goal is to get us into positive happiness. T175: Raize Hamburg and Antium. Happiness at -2 now. T176: Change some tiles to speed up Forbidden Palace. Antium grows while being raized. I guess Civ...

Well, just let me know if you want me to play the 1150-AD save since it loads for me. It is bad enough that the game play is broken, but when the simple logistics of the game break down, it is time to bargain bin the game.

I just tried and I can load the 1150 AD save. Should I play it?

Hiawatha is still there on the other side of Biz I think, but he will be boxed in by us once we conquer Biz.

So do we want to start burning down and back filling or just keep the puppets and start raizing future cities? Make sure if we are keeping puppets that you replace every one of their farms, that way they cannot choose to work farms and grow faster. We want them left with no options but to...

Forbidden Palace should also arrive in the next 5-10 turns too, so that will help with the happiness. I wouldn't worry about losing 3 units. We had too many to begin with. I was trying to lose units against Rome and they were too stupid to kill them.

I think we might as well carry on and destroy those empires while we have more troops than we need. I almost wanted to lose troops, but Rome didn't destroy a single one. After caravels, I guess we continue down the military line of techs? We should start ICS'ing once we get Meritocracy.

No screenshots, sorry. T155: Puppets patch worked. All are building useful buildings. They no longer build production buildings supposedly. Went ahead and switched the horses to St. Pete to speed up Forbidden Palace since it didn't slow Chichen Itza. T156: Unhired 3 scientists to avoid...

Got it. My thoughts are to produce some Settlers, and start ICS'ing for real, including burning down the non-capital AI cities. And I like Kylearan's idea to get some scouting ships up. This means I will not go after Rome yet. Any thoughts?

I say, in my best Mortal Kombat voice: "FINISH HIM!" Great turns Kyle. Glad to see us pressing an advantage. Rather than deleting units, I think we should just get aggressive and keep destroying Rome and then Biz and then Hiawatha and if we lose many units, just make peace.