Recent content by IAmOzymandias

I have good luck with ranged-only conquest. Bring a horseman along for fun, and then just rotate out ranged units when they're hurt. Constant damage from, say, 6 units can take down a city in 2 turns, rather than 4 turns for 4 ranged and 2 melee. if it's a very strong city and scouts are still...

Graz sucks. I say if you're highly against war, then settle to the left of your CC on the snaky spit of land to the right of the deer and horses. I'd like it for a few reasons. 1. MUCH better area than Graz. Unless you plan to get Petra up Graz looks pretty useless. 2. Serves as a canal...

like halo said, the honour tree's bonuses would be a big plus. I'd reccommend out-teching them. Get some CB's up and on the defensive, hold the line while you push science (not only so as not to lose the war, but to keep up with the other civs) and when you pop XB, upgrade them quick, then feed...

I think my (our?) problem is that we don't understand some of the finer points about "why" this stuff is happening. War is easy, unit 1 beats the crap out of unit 2, unit 2 is dead, but when you're weighing trade routes, tourism, diplomacy, ideaology, and all the calculations that go in between...

my point of view, though is that if they had done nothing at all the fallout would have been nowhere near what it is. They effectively told everybody that "we made a mistake, and regardless of whether or not you feel wronged, here is a free game on your account to do what you please with." If...

As I said before, give it to a buddy (online or irl) and get him hooked!

As a business owner this is paramount to you (or more specifically, one of your employees) making an honest (and temporary) mistake in pricing, (that i'm sure the vast majority of people never even noticed in the first place) One that you lose money on. . . So you give everybody who was impacted...

I just don't see the point of people who complain and moan and act like the world owes them a big favor. That's why you have these ambulance chasing lawyers who's first words are HAVE YOU CONSIDERED A LAWSUIT despite what actual anguish the person experienced simply because they know they can...

On this day in 1983 if I walked up to somebody and told them that we will have handheld devices with hundereds if not thousands of times the computational power of even the largest supercomputer of the day in 30 years they would have laughed and said exactly what you had said.. I bet the...

Well you can be the first member of the newly organized X-COM since you apparently have psychic powers and know what's going to happen in the near future. EDIT: Consider that the X-COM project is associated with (the perfection of) nanotechnology. I don't have nanorobots inside me making me...

I think the big part of CiV that a lot of people are missing is that it doesn't strive to be historically accurate in any sense of the word. Could they have somehow figured out balance so that on an earth map every single civ would spawn at it's real global location ad it's real time? Could...

100 percent agreed. I heavily rely on City States and the patronage tree to give a longstanding and hearty boost to my military, science and food (the occasional GP doesn't hurt either lol) and I can consistently win a diplo if i'm going to win at all. Was shooting for a cultural vic the first...

do a pangea map with just those civs, the smallest possible size and a quick game. No city states. Build nothing but caravans. Instant achievment. EDIT: some achievments are pretty silly, not only in CiV but a lot of games. Some of the ones in fallout are goofy too. I'm not talking about the...

I think if anything the biggest change is not that civs aren't hurting specifically themselves in this, it's that no civs are getting stomped down early either through a failed attack or a failed defense, and by the later games there isn't nebuchadnezzar with 3000 points and the next guy with...

Immersion breaking? You're playing a video game in which several civilizations all figure that they'll settle down at exactly the same time on an otherwise unpopulated world, and proceed to deal with each other through a completely arbitrary and otherwise unenforced ruleset, while dealing with...