Recent content by jmrathbun

I was playing on King difficulty in my second game, having easily won on Prince using technology. Suddenly, around move 300, I got this doom and gloom screen and it took me a while to figure out what happened. Finally I saw that America had a culture victory. It would have been nice to have...

"We can criticize many things of communism, but it can't be said that it has not meant a great advance for many peoples." With respect, I would point out that communism has been responsible for the deaths of countless millions and the enslavement of a billion or more, just in the past century...

I have this little character labeled "Sumeria - Hakim" running around my CIV. I can't guess what he does or find any info about him. I couldn't target him even when Sumeria was at war with me. He didn't go away after the war. Anybody know who he is or what he does?

"From the first stirrings of life beneath water to the great beasts of the Stone Age to man taking his first upright steps..." seems muddled. Of course hominids walked upright in the Stone Age, which was when they began making and using tools. The real "great beasts" of this story died out aeons...

I just came across the Civics Tree options for Capitalism and Communism, and I found evidence of a repulsive political agenda in CIV VI. Communism, which has been a dismal failure everywhere it's been tried, gives one better troops, more production, and increased influence. In reality, nothing...

This is my first try at CIV VI, though I played previous versions. I'm into the early 20th Century. I haven't been at war with anybody in the past 100 turns. I have three destroyers, parked East, West, and South. Suddenly something appears next to my west destroyer and is promptly sunk by it...

I recently returned after an absence of a few years and am now up to move 290 of my first game in CIV VI on Prince difficulty. One very frustrating change has become apparent with regard to unit automation: it mostly fails! I used to be able to send a unit exploring and check back in ten or...

It turns out the correct decision was to take Athens and Hamburg. Later, I wound up with Berlin as well because Bismark was determined to take Hamburg back and he irked me. Eventually he made a play for Athens and actually nuked me. Perhaps I should have taken more of his cities after Hamburg...

Still trying to adjust to CIV 5. Sitting here at move 250 with the world's best military. A nearby Greek city and a nearby German city are calling for conquest. The only other civ on the continent is Monty. I could own this whole continent if it weren't for my citizens being so chronically...

The save from turn 100 shows me at war with Alexander (he attacked me). I fought him off and later took his city of Corinth. At turn 100, I'm already behind Alexander and Bismark on points, and I was unable to catch up. A save from turn 200 illustrates my frustration. I would be interested in...

My heart was in my mouth with only two other civs left on the board at move 473 and Napoleon's army poised on my borders and twice as powerful. I concealed my intent by not adding spaceship components until the last move. I didn't get Augustus Caesar for this one but victory is sweet even if...

The problem is only if one expects the game to make sense in a real-world context.

I had an automated worker in my capitol that was "out of moves" and a spaceship cockpit in another city that needed to be moved immediately because it was "stacked" with an automated worker there. I couldn't do anything except move the cockpit to a tile near my capitol and leave it in the open...

I think the main source of confusion for me was lack of notice when a city starts a new project that was in the queue but forgotten. In CIV 4 the queue was automatically visible and there were notices like "CITY has finished TANK. Construction has now begun on a FACTORY." These notices got an...

He just got to the Modern Era on turn 397. I wonder how long it will take him to get the U.N. built? Would Napoleon be stupid enough to build the U.N. under these circumstances? If I build the U.N., can I avoid calling an election (as in CIV 4)?