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    Completely Dumb Ideas

    New US diplo music in 2008: WARNING: LANGUAGE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C22wBf2h5k
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    In your view, what were/are the 5 greatest Civilizations of History?

    Turkic (not Turkish), which doesn't just mean the Ottomans. That family of peoples, which I, and this is debatable, consider a civilization, basically includes every nomad to cross Transoxiana from after the Arab conquest to the Mongols. The Kurds are not, strictly speaking "purely Turkic" (an...
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    Proposed new Mechanic: Food Slider

    Commerce turns into food by buying food from elsewhere/paying farmers to grow more/subsidies. And, see every over-populated state ever.
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    How Big Are Your Cities? City Size- Population Scaling

    Uh-oh, someone's channeling Malthus. The idea that the world will hit a max population assumes both technological stagnation, and the notion that arable land can't have increased yield due to improvement. I'm not going to go look through my messy records from last Spring, but I'm fairly...
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    In your view, what were/are the 5 greatest Civilizations of History?

    I don't really think this topic can be reconstituted into any kind of coherent, impassive list, for a variety of reasons. But I'm astounded by the congeniality everyone has displayed in making lists, critiques, and rebuttals. That makes me happy to be a netizen. Anyway, to my own list: So, I...
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    Suggestions and requests

    One question and one request First, is it the opinion of the community that Epic/Marathon makes UHVs/other victories easier or harder? Just wondering, as someone who usually plays on Marathon and is curious as to whether that would make a difference if I submitted a game for score. Second, is...
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    1700AD Scenario

    I disagree about the idea for a Swiss civ. In my opinion, however, the title representing them should become an impassable mountain of independent culture in Spring 1901. Diplomacy, anyone?
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    RFCEurope 1.1

    Burgundy usually is for the player, because humans are very good at keeping counter-stacks around. As the Byzantines on ++, I usually have 40 Cataphracts sitting around to deal with various incursions. But AI Burgundy can be scary - as soon as they get to Paladins, France won't be conquering...
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    Why can the Byzantines respawn?

    The Byzantines are almost exactly this. If one considers them a civilization, they're just the Greeks in Roman hats. But before the Ottomans arrive, they should respawn, instead of the Greeks. I won't call myself an expert, but I am fairly confident that Asia Minor and the Bosporus were largely...
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    Tech rate penalty for number of cities

    This, with penalties applying on a gentle curve. Small empires become more, not less competitive. Large empires become more competitive relative to 10-city ones, however. At the same time, on any kind of enlongated geometric curve, astronomically large empires with many poor cities would still...
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    Muslim World Enhancements

    I would say that Paper, Gunpowder, Education, and Optics are good candidate techs for a "House of Wisdom" wonder to expire. It was razed in 1258, so I think Gundpowder might make the most sense, but the "tech farthest down the tree the Seljuks start with" could be a good proxy. The HoW...
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    3000BC Shrine locations and Milan

    It could also have a 50% (33%?) chance of moving to another city, anyway. Zoroastrianism did, in fact, die out when the Arabs conquered Persia, and converted fire temples to mosques, so that's exceptionally historical. Celtic Paganism largely died out the same way - one Saint is even lionized...
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    Civ-specific ranks collection thread

    I'd argue that, if you're going to include a post-WWII Republican, one should take Reagan over Eisenhower. I'd say TR and Wilson should be ahead of Polk. Both won Nobel Peace Prizes, and Theodore's impact on US global presence was substantial. Polk is neither lionized by the contemporary...
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    Civ-specific ranks collection thread

    This just struck me as better How about:
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    Civ-specific ranks collection thread

    He could easily replace Kohl directly, or replace Merkel and reshuffle the order. One is not supposed to use post-WWII leaders, so it should be kept to a minimum, but I don't see how to avoid it with the Prussians. (To be fair, I could re-write a combined list with HRE, but then we're going...
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