Recent content by Illianor123

I agree with Victoria’s suggestions. I think that maybe you could choose a society early and get a bonus equivalent to a city state’s 1st envoy bonus but the current bonuses wouldn’t kick in until the medieval. During the early stages (pre-medieval) you can change between the different...

The lack of air units from the ai is the main problem for single player. Even a bunch of aa units would help. You can fight an ai on an equal tech footing and bring a bunch of planes and they won’t build anything to stop you. The AI have no defense and no offense once you unlock air. against...

I think people refer to it as “build order” now. normally I go scout - scout - slinger - settler. Early builders aren’t as useful due to having to wait to research the techs to use them. I normally save my gold to buy my first builder. scouts are great for exploring and finding city-states...

It's very explicit about it in the Civopedia that you don't accrue Xperia while a promotion is pending. OddGamer's Scythia game first did (not sure on his name, I was just searching for Scythia vids)

I'm just disappointed that the AI seems to rely more heavily on front loaded bonuses rather than game long bonuses that make the first few eras an exercise in tedium (that also makes early wonders practically impossible) and the latter eras boring. Also sad that the AI is reduced from Prince...

The AI are good at spying on you and will adjust their construction to counteract your own adjustments.

Find El Dorado, and Fountain of Youth.

I think, Spain, Incans, and Babylon are all compatible with the vanilla game, there are some other civs that were released as DLC before the release of G&K. I don't know of any mods that change the later civs back to vanilla.

Up the difficulty, or claim the land yourself. The AI may not fill it in because they have happiness issues and reduced expansiveness on easy.

You can increase the numbers of both AIs and CSs in the game through the advanced set up.

I sometimes restart, if the game looks to be particularly poor, and expansion opportunities won't make up for it. I just wish that if I start a game as a random civ, I get another random civ, not the same civ.

"Why is the AI so weak" Because you are playing on easy.

Have you musician bombed anyone yet? Save up faith, buy some musicians, sail them over then drop the tourism bomb. Taking some of their cities will reduce their culture to allow your tourism to surpass them. Also military demographics are meaningless with the AI, I often have the 7th or 8th...

OCC is all about having a big capital, and tradition is still the best way to do that, especially as you can't send food caravans, you really need the growth bonuses to keep up. Joint wars are good to farm xp, and become friendly with your nearby neighbours. OCC is about the only time I build...

Puppets work specialist (notably the problem is that they normally work gold specialists and sometimes spawn merchants), so if it had a workshop it could have spawned the engineer. And unless you were playing on Deity (and even Then it would just be extra difficult) it should be quite possible...