Recent content by jorissimo

I'm seeing this only now and I am literally dying hahahahaha :lmao::lol:

Another Greek migration game I see :lol:

It's a good point. The Netherlands was productive historically for reasons that civ is badly equipped to represent. Raw material imports (wood and iron from Scandinavia), a dense population, large-scale wind-powered "industry" (saw-windmills where very important for the shipbuilding, while...

Okay, I finally achieved the wonder goal. The secret seemed to be using two GEs (combined with luck, as always), one for Sistine, and the other for San Marco. Researching Patronage turned out to be faster than stealing it. Also this was generally a weird roll: HRE didn't declare war over the...

Those are some pretty good tips. So basically, set espionage on Portugal, build a spy and send it to them, pop a GE, and rush the wonder. Regarding what you said about razing Marseille and Wien, I feel like this might not be strictly necessary as my overwhelming culture tends to push their...

You're right about the underdevelopment of the interior of Brazil until later. However, in RFC logic "control" just means having more cities in a given area than any other civ. This necessarily means controlling the coastal areas to prevent other civs from penetrating further inland. Right now...

On a related note regarding the Dutch UHV: settling great merchants in the mid to late game is the most counter-productive thing imaginable. I would change this goal to "experience 16 turns of golden age by [insert merchant deadline]".

Suggestion for Portugal 3d UHV I feel like "build 15 colonies" leads to cheesy tactics, and I tend to end up just spamming a bunch of crappy cities in the interior of Africa around the deadline. At the same time, there is no incentive to colonize Brazil and actually develop it, save for the...

Wrote this post collecting a bunch of tips here. Apart from this I play without modules and on the administrator account (don't ask me why, but I get errors with a system file called ntdll.dll on my regular user account).

True but how do you know who is building them? I know there are some wonder-under-construction spotting tricks but I don't think I would be able to recognize anything other than the pyramids lol.

I did two test runs with Italy on Regent at least up to and including the second UHV goal. The second goal, culture, is easy but the first one, the wonders, I can't seem to get right. I usually manage to build two wonders, but one of them always gets snatched by another civ. On the first try...

I tried this strategy, and everything went well, easily got the first two goals. However, then I started sacking cities here and there, vassalized France, sacked Spain's two northern coastal cities after which they conquered them back, was about to lay my hands on the Moors but then... poof...

Turns out it's just a regular HDD.. Somehow confused the USB 3.0 symbol, which has two SSs, for SSD :hammer2:

Actually I have an external SSD and a USB-SSD port on my laptop. Do you think I could install the game on there?

Okay, after trying several things suggested online, I feel like I'm getting a grip on the ntdll issue. The thing that seems to have done it, is enabling the Administrator account and playing from there. I read that ntdll errors can be caused by a corrupted user account, which is quite possible...