Recent content by gradenko_2000

1) If you have your first worker before I do. Declare war just to take it, keep it up and destroy him/her altogether if at all possible. 2) If your name is Isabella - you look too much like my ex to live. 3) If your name is Mansa Musa - you were too insignificant in real life to be allowed...

All of the great people are universally useful in their ability to discover a tech, whether fully or partially. The only consideration with regards to specific great person type is which tech would be randomly selected. Triggering a golden age again is universally applicable to all great...

Correction: If Histographic victory is turned on and no other victory has been won yet, then the game ends in 2050 with the winner being the player with the most points. If Histographic victory is turned off, the game will keep going indefinitely until some other victory is won. Personally, I...

The optimal solution would still be "attack with highest strength unit first", with the added condition of factoring in all the bonii of both attacker and defender. So yes, the algorithm is correct, but no, the variables being fed into the algorithm are incorrect insofar as to determining the...

The problem with putting armies together at this point is the sheer overpowered traits it would posses. Stack a Maceman, a Longbowman and a Pikeman together and you've got a 20+ strength unit running around with first strike and bonuses against three types of units. And that's just for the base...

A city can only be stagnant if all the tiles it works provide even amounts of food. A surplus or deficit of 1 food will make the city grow or shrink, albeit slowly. What's probably happening is that your governor cannot find a tile configuration that will only provide (pop * 2) amounts of food...

My cat loves watching C-IV. At the very least, she knows exactly where she'll go to ask food from, and at best she gets to curl up between the monitor and CPU and lazily swat my units (she seems to have a liking for Catapults, especially since the bombard sounds kinda like opening a can of cat...

How is this abusable? The AI will cancel any excessive GPT deals (probably because it works both ways, in that he'll lose that much money). Maybe you can do this with resources to get mega-health/happy (I didn't test if it stacks) but the question of making it stick is still unanswered.

It makes sense to let the player gain the circumnavigation bonus just through mapping. Think about it, if five civilizations across the world all have their own piece of the world map, and you trade for all of them, and you notice that the maps wrap around in a contiguous form, and you make the...

I was just thinking about this. The reasoning I came up with is that getting Mt. Rushmore lets you reduce war weariness without necessarily adopting the police state civic - while the effects can stack, you can tailor one or the depending on how much reduction you need. In real world terms...

At first, I thought this was a little lacking too, but then I realized it's all for the best. I'm sure anyone who's played an RTS has encountered the concept of focus-fire. Going all the way back to the original Red Alert (perhaps farther) where massing huge numbers of heavy tanks was the order...

Big empires are more doable here than in Civ III even. The whole OCN concept last game was plain bollocks - what was the point of taking over the world when everything besides your core was only producing 1 shield? Yes, there were ways to work around/make it work for you, but it was...

When I first saw that there were quotes again when you discovered techs ala SMAC, I jumped for joy. Who could forget Academician Prokhor Zakharov? "Technology is an apparently iterative process ..." The high-science concepts just stayed with me through all these years (even though I hated...

I didn't know this, so if I have a bajillion units in a stack, I can use stack attack and automatically have the best possible unit be the one to attack without having to check the individual odds by hand? Sounds cool. Oh and just so I can make an actual contribution: In a tactical...

Doesn't it already use combined arms? Pikemen stop the horses, horses stop the archers, archers stop the macemen, macemen stop the pikemen. That's a very simple example, mind you.