Recent content by hecubus

When you pop a free tech from an ancient ruin, and it's the one you were a turn away from researching.

This is a very small thing, but it ends up irritating me almost every game. I know there are multiple ways to move the camera around, but I have always done it by "pushing" it around with the mouse cursor at the edge of the screen. It's just second nature by now. The Choose a Pantheon panel...

In my last game as Morocco I watched Brazil walk a settler into an area I had scoped out for a fourth city, but wasn't ready to settle yet. I had a couple units fogbusting in the area, but not exactly a major military presence, and not enough to try to block him. I opened diplomacy and asked...

Or, "Well maybe YOU shouldn't have voted against it, too. Your 9 votes against did more to cause it to fail than my two." Oda did this to me in my last game, voted against his own proposal (a luxury ban) and then got angry at me when it failed. :rolleyes:

Who is Cid? In my experience, the AI tends to complain about your massing of troops whenever one of their units comes in sight of some of your uints - even if their unit is passing through your territory on the other side of the world.

The demanding "BUILD SOMETHING NOW!" pop-up was deliberately removed from Civ V because it drew so many complaints in IV. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Fortunately most of the national wonders have a relatively short build time. Just put a short pause on expansion and build them early.

Caesar referred to me as "the bloodthirsty one" after I assisted him, at his request, in a war against Bismarck.

I think it's less to do with how the absence of barbarians can directly affect the human player as how it can affect certain other AI civs. Turning off barbarians and then specifically choosing Songhai and/or Germany as an opponent negates their UA, which can provide an indirect advantage to...

Neither as clean nor as quick as it could have been, but it was actually an earlier finish than my Bollywood win, which was on Warlord. Two cities (I kept pondering a third but never went for it), neither coastal so I never even saw the other continent. Catherine and Suleiman showed up...

From the manual: "A Great General gives a combat bonus of 25% to units in the General's tile and all friendly units within 2 tiles of the General."

Alexander's usually one of my best and most trustworthy allies. At least, until my Bollywood game where he settled a bunch of cities on my borders, complained that I was encroaching on his territory, then declared war on me the next turn. :mad:

It seems a bit silly to me that they come so late. By the time I could be building them I'm usually trying to prevent cities from growing much faster, not encourage it.

Can I have your stuff?

Did you complete The Manhattan Project? Do you have (enough) Uranium? Atomic Bombs require 1 Uranium apiece, Nuclear Missiles require 2 each.