Recent content by Khift

I hate this too. Also, it cuts out when you zoom to globe view, which I do frequently to make my dot maps.

Now in haiku form! I built the Great Wall, But the Aztecs still got in. Civilization.

Perhaps instead of each civilization getting two unique units and one unique building, maybe having each just get a total of three unique somethings would work out better. You wouldn't want many civs with three UU's and no UB's (too overpowered, especially units with consecutive life-spans) or...

But... it's Montezuma.

But Montezuma still got into my territory. What gives?

What if you're running a cottage economy? My civs tend to have only one city with any farms whatsoever, and that would be my GP farm. I tend to go for Electricity alot, though. My cottage economies often end up with quite a few windmills, and Electricity is what makes them truly come into...

If you run SP then hell yes, watermills are the single best improvement and should be made on every tile you can. But, unless I'm play a total warmonger game I hate SP, because it turns off Sid's Sushi and Mining Inc., both of which are collectively a far! greater boost to your empire than...

Are the all the same state religion and yours is different? If so, has the Apostolic Palace been built? And if not, chances are you just got unlucky.

I love the Holy Mountain quest. HEY LOOK! There's this mountain ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP! If you can just conquer your way to it, you'll have the awesome honor of receiving something TOTALLY MEDIOCRE! YEAH!

The key to avoiding Spearmen is speed and surprise. The AI never builds Spearmen, pretty much ever, unless it is at war with a country with a large force of cavalry units. Since they don't build but one or two of them before the war your goal is to keep him from building them during the war by...

Because the computer is a dummy-head who doesn't know how to place cities. Every game I play I see it place cities one tile away from a river, or from the coast, or just on silly pointless plots that would be much better off shifted a tile or two in a different direction. Sure, I could keep it...

Ironworking, the turn after I started researching it, while playing as Rome. I was quite pleased to save 20 odd turns.

The key to Darius, in my opinion, is to war early and build late. Recently I've been playing Darius almost exclusively, because his style fits my style and my goal is this: two civilizations wiped out before 1 AD, then spam settlers, then spam workers, courthouses, doing anything to jump-start...

An opposite event: Playing as Boudica of Rome (unrestricted leaders), I was suddenly given the "build 12 swordsmen, get free CR1" quest. I proceeded to remind myself how disgusting it was to be pumping out Praetorians that crawled out of the gates with C1, CR3 and Cover/Shock, whichever serves...

I, too, have a bit of an issue with city specialization, but it usually boils down to one question: How can you make a non river city a production city without running State Property? No matter what I do non-river cities never even approach the productive power of a city with access to...