Recent content by Helmling

I tried whining about this to my Destiny clan, but they had no idea what I was talking about. So I've always loved big games. I always use max map size and max number of players. I recently got a new computer with a lot more horsepower, so I decided to take my Civ game to the max. I added...

Oh yeah, I was spamming rock bands all the live-long day. And I had trade routes running into my competitors with that 50% tourism off trade routes civic. In my last game I'd pushed harder for earlier culture and fallen behind in tech so I didn't get Eiffel Tower, which meant fewer national...

I hadn't played in a long while, but I always play the same route (boring that way). On Emperor, 24 city states, quick, as Pericles, vs. max AIs, huge island plate map, I always go full Wonder-whoring and chase a late-game culture victory. Yeah, I know there are all sorts of cheese strategies...

Well, I mean, it's a pretty easy prediction.

And can I say: the sea walls take WAYYYYY too long to build. It would be manageable if they'd at least let you use an exorbitant amount of gold to rush them, but they can't be hurried. One of my gem cities--with golden gate bridge, a water park, and seaside resort--is starting to look like a...

First of all, as many have pointed out, they made the effects of climate change too drastic. It's 1825 in my current game, I'm one of the most advanced civs and have eschewed all carbon emissions, yet the oceans have risen three times already. If the real effects of global warming were that...

I didn't know there was a queue.

I'm getting frequent crashes in game. Still in early stages--classical and earlier--and game crashes spontaneously. After one crash, I reloaded a save game from two turns earlier, played through. Then the game crashed again about five turns after the point of the initial crash. Reloaded a save...

Anyone else getting crashes? I'm on Mac and I've had two games in a row end in crashes. Like the save game inevitably leads to a crash on the next turn and the only thing I can possibly do is back up to an earlier save and rerun the turns. Annoying since one of those games was really a...

Oh, I didn't know THAT! No wonder. I didn't even notice the option to plant spies in neighborhoods.

Oh my god, just while I was typing that, it happened again--twice! I have six mechanized infantry to deal with. For a while it wasn't even a problem because I had a bunch of apostles with heathen conversion, but they're all used up and this is just tedious as heck.

In my current game, I am having a lot of trouble with spies recruiting partisans. I mean A LOT. Every couple of turns, I've got mechanized infantry materializing out of thin air right next to my capital. It's ridiculous! I have spies covering just about every tile of the city, but still--time...

Yeah, I pull that trick all the time, too. This instance, though, I don't have enough land units in the vicinity. He's about to capture one of the two city states he's roughing up, so I'm building up forces to smack him back down.

I'm so annoyed that there's no way to demand another Civ end its war against your city state ally. I'm about to have to get into it with Alexander--who's right up on my border--because he's too dumb to leave my allies alone.

I had a ridiculous tech lead in my current game and had thrived peacefully for ages until Gahndi got greedy. No problem, my massive fleet of frigates will just decimate your seaborn invasion forces...wait, who's coming into the war on your side? Pedro? Crap. Here's comes his super-battlehsip...