Recent content by ignacz

I've only primarily played vanilla Civs 4-5, but as I understand it a 5 expansion had it as a unique Dutch ability. However, while they are among the most-active polder-builders, they are pretty universally used around the world. I would think it reasonable for all civs to have the option, or...

I know they are usually slightly exaggerated versions of leaders, but while Teddy was a bigger man in later life, he never looked Chubby like Taft.:lol: I'm surprised he came before some other possibilities (Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Kennedy, etc), but a welcome change. Always felt awkward...

I always thought it would be neat if larger empires suffered some form of Balkanization, which could occur in several ways: Larger empires unable to support cities would flip to other civilizations, (either creating a new independent city-state or absorbed by existing) city-states, or...

I think there would be a couple more effective approaches, I'm just afraid many of them may be too complicated. One (as I mentioned in the other thread before I noticed this one had been started) would be the implementation of a language system similar to religion. There is a theory that...

One incredibly complicated solution would be the creation of a Language System. Point being, there is a theory that language is a stronger unifier than religion or ethnicity.

Is espionage out altogether? I never liked the espionage points/influence system implemented in 4. But are they eliminating the spy unit too? That is an effective and simple way to incorporate espionage in a straightforward way.

This would be brilliant! Start say, 1945 immediately after WWII. While Europe rebuilds, the Soviets race to develop nuclear weapons. The first couple decades would revolve heavily around espionage and the spread of Communism and socialism throughout the world's poor and developing regions...

Two questions (and I apologize in advance if these have been discussed elsewhere, I haven't had much time to read up on Civ5 quite yet): -Are random events going to be a feature in Civ5? In particular, I thought those were a nice/interesting feature that impacted gameplay enough to throw a...

I've just recently started playing the 1936 mod. A couple things that strike as being very realistic as how naive and unprepared most of Europe was for what was to follow. I played the 1936 actual events mode first as the US and had some success, I also wanted to try the open play mode...

Think of it as selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese or Iranians if you are the US of A.

This is pretty much how I play it. If I'm considerably more advanced, I will especially milk my weaker friendly civs. If they are civs that are closely linked with my principle threats. . .no way. The game I'm currently playing has been considerably different compared to others I've...

I haven't gotten too terribly involved in a game other than experimentation so far. However, I have had varying results playing as Ethiopia. In several dabblings: 1) I had 5 cities south of Egypt that were actually flourishing even 3 of them on the desert portion of the northeast coast. I...

I think government type should be a factor in a "gold rush". The American territories gold rushes occurred in large part because the territories were largely unsettled and the fact that America is an open society. However, under a communist or tyrannical regime, the common person would not...

I realize that the treaties can only be one-sided in terms of conditions. The deals involving gold were post-war negotiations. Perhaps I didn't make that clear. And I guess I probably didn't do the GPT offering since that's not an option. (I'm not that observant on all the intricacies of the...

This is a unit specific request: I would like to see Gunships be able to fly over water tiles marked "coastal", and like galleys not be able to enter or fly over ocean space.