Recent content by JothHago

It looks like your issue mainly is just handling happiness. First off which social policy are you starting off? Secondly, mercantile city states comes in very handy and you should explore the quests for city states. Probably make those quests a priority if possible. In terms of handling...

I'm surprised that with the unit count you have (from SS) @ Deity you still keep your cities intact. It just goes without saying that I get unit spammed in early DoWs so badly that I wouldn't have time for any pre-renaissance wonders. I'll be laughing if I don't get DoWed by 3 civilizations by...

He means if he gets NC after GL , there is no AI @ King difficulty that is going to keep up in science. Doesn't reflect on anything higher as we know firaxis rigged difficulty levels differently.

I'm just curious. What speed are you playing on? How can you sign 25-30 RAs? Just doing some quick maths, even by god chance you can sign research agreement on a standard sized map with 5 other civ's, with each RA taking 30 turns, you'll need at least 5 consecutive waves of RA after Education...

just a quick question mate. have you tried comfortably getting through emperor or immortal? Sistine Chapel, Oracle, those are wonders that even most experienced players won't be getting in a deity game because it slows down growth (maybe not so much oracle but point in hand). Benchmarks for...

Offense is a great defense, also a great tool to set your civilization up. Remember that all the puppetted civilizations will be gold focused and with TPs, you would have a fair bit of GPT to buy CS off

Domination or not, you should really keep pace in tech. 300 turns in with +286 is quite worrisome even on emperor. Even at T200 with +600 bpt is quite worrisome for deity. I am not sure if playing this game without CS will severely cripple your chances of winning in deity. I find them...

Yea too much hassle to get him to denounce me. By the time I got to that stage of Constabularies/Police Stations, I pretty much know the game was in the bag. I bought them outright anyway. Gold wasn't an issue as I managed to chain 5 golden age from turn 190 to end game. Was more of an...

Yea I know the only solution was to keep forgiving him. But it was really frustrating because he seems to be able to steal my tech even when I have my lvl 3 spies in base with Police Station. Not that it matters much but it was just frustrating on personal level. Gustavus, DoF with Sully and...

depends. If I'm gunning for a science Victory, I don't annex cities until I move down a few points in the rationalism tree or the order opener. When i can sustain the cities, i annex all of them and get science buildings, concentrate on science until spaceship. Unless the capital you just...

Standard rule of thumb is to build TP on puppets and concentrate on growth improvements for your cities.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=431839 This thread has quite a bit of discussion and mechanics on it

Mechanically, that shouldn't be enough to give you the label. Usually if you take one CS, that'll be good enough to get that warmongering label, but you'd have to DoW a lot, and wiping cities off. You must have done those.

This was a situation I encountered in my latest game playing as Mayan on Immortal. In game I had Spain, Monty, Iro, Gustavus, Bismarck, Austria and Ottoman. I think by T80 or so I out-teched the all of them. Fast forward many more turns later, most of them has spies in Palenque...

Yea, not much of an option then, did not wanted to DoW Spain as I was still considered a lenient giant getting other Civs to war each other. But the mechanics of faith for CPU Civ is just ridiculous at some levels and I've seen missionary spams that makes me go bonkers. I've realized at Deity I...