Recent content by incroc

If I play peaceful, I tend to have a builder ready to chop out ancestral hall the turn I finish political philosophy. So somewhere like turn 60 on average maybe. That's usually my 3rd or even 4th builder, I make a lot of them. I can count next time I play and post the number here. That's how I...

Chopping accelerates the game. If you build ancestral hall you get a free builder in your new city, which is worth 3/4/5/6 chops (depending on feudalism, pyramids). Those chops gives you a district and other infrastructure up asap in your new city, helping it to thrive. I also chop earlier to...

That's pretty funny, especially since I assumed you were the OP as well when you replied :D (didn't read the nicks)

>10 cities is enough to win and chopping is most important early. Maybe you settle a bit too late? I tend to chop out settlers or faith buy as much as possible after I get Ancestral Hall until I run out of space. It depends on the RNG, but having 10 cities settled somewhere between turn 80 and...

How many cities do you end up with? Do you chop all the forest/jungle in your cities to speed up development?

I'm pretty sure barbs never spawn more than one unit per turn, but on deity they get one unit per turn for quite a while if the scout spots you and return. With the clans mode on you can bribe them to not attack you, if you want to avoid blocking the scouts and clearing camps early.

Textbook Civ AI :lol: I agree though, the price you pay in giving up DF is almost zero. Compared with selling lux it's so different, where you actually lose something and/or possibly give the AI happy/ecstatic bonus. Same with strategic resources. Better voting would've made it trickier, as...

I don't think I'd ever remove districts if it was allowed. All that waste of production can't be anywhere close to optimal. It sounds like a poor idea.

Ah interesting, I didn't think too much about this but it kinda makes sense. A builder is 50 hammers * some scaling I don't know. And you gain 50% in one city from AH. So if you make settlers in 3 cities, it adds up to 60% gain in total with WT. Then you lose the free builder, but if you have...

Coincidentally, this makes Korea the best neighbour to have in the game. You always get good cities, compared to crap +1 holy sites from Indonesia or Poland or 100 encampments from Shaka. Just don't wait until they've got the Hwacha.

I'm a sucker for the civs with benefits to theater squares and campuses. Korea, Greeks and Australia. Even Japan. For domination, the easiest game I've had has been with Mongolia. Not sure about any of those being OP though, just great. I don't play archipelago much, but good naval civs on...

Post patch I've sold diplo favour for outrageous sums, the worst being 77 favour for 115 gpt (in the latest GoTM. Later I sold 30 for around 50gpt. It's always been very highly valued by the AI, but this seems like a distinct upturn. Which seems unbalanced to me, as it's not that hard to come...

I'd say t171 is quite fast, at least much faster than my record. Even without harvest too. I've always felt the Civs with early buffs are the best, so I'm not that surprised Rome is good. I've tried to play similar to before the patch, and good production starts can give you 4 cities by t45...

Oh this is nice, maybe I'll have to try this map next. Rolling cramped maps is boring.

Settle the tobacco, then second city south-east of the visibility for a +3 cheap campus? Or settle on the stone looks better actually, but I hate doing that.