Recent content by groorg1

Took forever, but happy to manage a victory! Still don't fully understand what prioritizes a cultural victory so I just tried everything...

Turn 388 science victory. Delayed significantly because I didn't have the production in place to complete the Mars modules quickly enough.

It took almost a year but I can announce more YouTube astronomy! The Great Photon Escape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSO8evHlafA

I've been playing these games since Railroad Tycoon, and I've immediately bought every Civ when it came out. There have been many changes and I haven't liked every one of them. But I've never been tempted to go back to an earlier incarnation of the game after any release -- Civ II, III, IV, or...

I like this idea. I imagine them being very advanced in cultural and artistic ways, but perhaps dogmatic in their thinking in a way that is harmful to their survival on the planet. Maybe they are less efficient at first at working tiles, or they have already evolved along a certain part of the...

I agree with this completely -- the Kardashev scale has only 3 levels, which sounds innocent enough, but each level represents an advance in power production of a factor of 10 billion! That's 10 orders of magnitude. For those who don't know, the scale was a conjecture in the 1960s about the...

The fun part of astronomy is that you don't need mathematics to get the concepts. It's really great to puzzle out the stories behind the crazy objects we see in the night sky. I don't know if there are any Kardashev 3 civilizations. There's definitely no evidence for them and some small...

Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to work on as a collaboration, and even though the six parts have very different emphasis, I think it works well as a collective story, and it tackles some of the logistics of Beyond Earth (and Rising Tide). I love thinking about alien worlds. There's a great...

The final part 6 is up! http://www.civilization.com/en/news/2015-05-systematic-destiny-party-6/

http://www.civilization.com/en/news/2015-04-systematic-destiny-part-3/

Wow, I've never had a worse game of domination than that. I'm not very good at domination, but I admit I'm shocked at how terribly it all went, and how little trouble everyone else seems to have had. I think the trouble started when the Shoshone got the Great Wall. I had no idea how miserable...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 58 Date submitted: 2013-04-03 Reference number: 28636 Your name: groorg1 Game status: Culture Victory Game date: 1951AD Turns played: 371 Base score: 1339 Final score: 1809 Time played: 5:45:00 Not great. I still haven't really figured out how to win...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 51 Date submitted: 2013-01-14 Reference number: 28097 Your name: groorg1 Game status: Science Loss Game date: 1750AD Turns played: 261 Base score: 703 Final score: 703 Time played: 3:55:00 I've only won one game on Immortal, under fairly special...

Thank you! I didn't realize liberation was so meager a benefit -- I seem to remember it being a lot more effective in the past, sometimes generating what looked like ~ 150-200 points? Has that changed in a patch without my noticing or was I just dreaming it? (Maybe I always had good relations...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 50 Date submitted: 2012-12-21 Your name: groorg1 Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1953AD Turns played: 373 Base score: 1816 Final score: 2454 Time played: 11:32:00 I'm proud that I won this game. I got off to what I thought was quite a good start...