Recent content by Iskiab

This! I used to accept open borders treaties for the heck of it but stopped. No good can come from open borders. Accepting open borders in the early game is inviting a civ to spread their religion in your empire. If a civ accepted open borders from you they're inviting you to spread your...

Yea, Hiawatha expands fast as mentioned. I never fear Hiawatha though. He's relatively peaceful, which is a good thing since the AI will attack him a lot. He's a hated civ. If you do become friends with him he won't attack you until he's conquered almost everyone else. The civs I fear are...

I only recently moved up to deity, so I can remember both games I lost. The first was against Greece who won a diplomatic victory. I went democracy and had just unlocked the T3 tenant that gives a bonus to diplomacy with city states. The AI countered by Greece declaring war on me, and since...

I generally play on a civ 5 on a large map, deity and epic speed. A friend mentioned that epic speed makes the game easier, is this true?

I actually had a game where a friend asked me to denounce someone and I said no, then they said okay and didn't backstab. I used to ignore the denouncing portion of the game but have found it to be super useful in my recent games. Whenever a civ tries to ban your chief luxury in the world...

I'm not an expert on order since I rarely play it, but when I do I almost never use my great engineers on spaceship parts. I tend to grab all the late wonders (especially hubble telescope) and spend my faith on scientists. The T3 order spaceship tenant sort of sucks, I look at it like it's a...

Liberty is tough. Remember too that in a liberty game your social policies give you less happiness then in a traditional game. +1 happiness for every city connected to the capital is usually less then -1 unhappiness for every 2 people in your capital. For liberty to be worth it you need to...

There are sometimes a couple of civs who choose it. From my experience some of the civs you were friendly with before you chose an ideology might choose the same ideology as you if their civ favours that ideology; like the aztecs for autocracy or siam for freedom. The advantage of freedom is...

Hi, I've been looking for some total conversions mods for civ 5 to help keep the game fresh. I've tried 2-3 mods but have found that most aren't up to date so don't work. What are the best functional total conversion mods out there?

Well thanks for all the replies, I've played 3-4 deity games and can say that my game has improved. I've gone with my own style so to say and I've decided: - Scout - Scout/Worker - shrine is better for my initial build (early worker if there's no city-state to steal from or I'm on a small...

One more quick question since it came up in my last game. I play with the map mod Perfect World, and ended up with a tonn of room to expand in my last game. I actually had space for 2 more cities bringing me to 6! The spots had no new luxury resources and only duplicates of what I already...

Tried another quick game and found my culture production was terrible without building opera houses. Another civ also became influential with me before internet! Am I missing something? In terms of culture, I only got one extra policy between full tradition and rationalism, compared to 3-4...

Oh, another question just came to mind: Is it common to use cargo ships for growth? I almost never do. I'll sometimes use cargo ships for hammers into a weak city to build some key buildings for wonders but that's it.

Okay, thanks for the tips. About bee-lining education, maybe that's why I like the Maya and think Korea is so powerful, it leads to an early theology and prioritizing production & science buildings gives me lots of specialists slots. I have some more questions too, now that I tried adapting...

Thanks for all the replies. Responding to some of the responses: - Korea on Deity might not be an easy win, but Korea on Immortal is an easy win unless I start next to Shaka or Greece. - I find the pantheons that give faith pretty good too. When building the shrine early I'll usually get a...