Recent content by johnny42strom

Forts have a few tactical uses. I mainly use them for what you found, where they can make bridges through land masses like cities. This is no bug. It's meant to be there so you can build canals. I also use them to grab a resource that's outside my cities BFC's. When you place a fort on a...

Unique Religious Buildings seem like a good idea, but too limited since most people change their state religion many times (and eventually go free religion to avoid all the political issues). I like that you can only build the buildings if you have that state religion, but they have a permanent...

Maybe your huge huge espionage bonus made it so that the AI couldn't see your Power graph or cities. So, he invaded blind (or at least didn't take your power rating into his calculations to attack). When he saw your city defenders, the odds were too great and he went home. Makes for a funny...

Gustave Eiffel builds a large structure of bare iron girders named the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It is regarded as an eyesore by many Parisians and loathed by anyone in the contemporary art world. The ugliness was especially potent because a beautiful statue was just given away. It would...

I'll second this. It'd be hard to implement, but even an option such as "Allow us control over land in our BFCes" would be a nice diplomatic option. It would act like Open Boarders in that it can be revoked on its own or automatically revoked when a war begins with that nation. Also, culture...

Usually a theater. I work on culture first so that whenever the war ends, I'm able to give the city its space. Then Granary and stuff to help it grow in pop. Finally stuff for production (unless the city is good in hammers, then Forge ASAP).

Maybe they'll include the patch in Civ V. I kid, I kid.

I've learned in many of my peace-loving, builder games long ago that a good war ally can make a great difference. It won't save you from the initial rush of stacks of doom when that backstabbing civ does declare war on you, but embroiling that civ in a four-on-one war is a nice surprise for...

I was just joking. Tokugawa is just a notable jerk in the game. He's so protection-oriented that he rarely opens borders before "pleased" relations. He always lags behind in my games because of his isolationist tendencies and refusal to trade with anyone. He's like the reverse Gandhi.

Other than Tokugawa or a glitch, I believe this happened because you agreed to break all ties with them when requested by another civ. When that happens you stop all trading with a civ, close your borders to that civ, get a negative diplomacy modifier with that civ, and that civ will refuse to...

Now, don't bash Square. I agree that Square has made it's amount of junk in the video game market, but who hasn't? If you want my choice for favorite RPG, I would choose Persona from Atlus for the PS1. I know it's old and looks awful, but that game has stuck with me and is by far my...

Um, the UN comes so late and only every so often. Usually, in my games, by the time the UN comes, even if it does bother you every 6 turns or so, those turns are very long and involved, so I don't get annoyed at it. I mostly hate the UN for ruining my State Property.

Tokugawa is an old fusspot. He is often seen in my games attacking the most peaceful civ (Ghandi, Mansu Masa, etc.).

While I do agree that diplomacy could be greatly improved in civ; I however think you are overreacting a little. I agree that all they could think of for a fluctuating diplo system was for the AI to constantly nag you for free stuff and give you negatives if you do not comply is quite annoying...

My favorite thing with barbs is when they capture a civ's capital. I was playing a large game with continents; when I get astronomy and begin looking at other civs, I found not one, but two civs on two separate continents that were small as could be (about 3 cities each) and were still using...