Recent content by KingCraig

I played Civ G&K for a while, then went straight to BE. I stayed away from BNW because I heard it was heavy on diplomacy. For me, negotiating with the AI is like living with an alcoholic - you never know what will make them angry. So I stuck with G&K style diplomacy - if you don't like what I...

I get a kick out of the Achievements names: Walk without rhythm (worm killing), Making way for a hyperspace bypass, etc etc. They're basically all sci-fi or pop culture references.

For Africa, +1 bonus food for every 2 or 3 pop, active all the time, would be better / more balanced than what it is now. Or if you want to add upsides/downsides, have it so they have to stay healthy to get it (the way it already is now), which is actually a challenge, if you are expanding...

Thanks for the heads-up! Looking forward to a bit more variety.

After winning my 2nd or 3rd game as Pan-Asian this evening, I checked my Hall of Fame and noticed I've only finished games as PAC, KP, or Polystralia (a couple games each). I quit an ARC game close to the end because it was getting tedious. I don't recall starting games as any other leader...

That screen shot reminds me of playing World of Warcraft a couple years back, and the problem turned out to be a mismatch between the version of DirectX that I was running vs what the game server was running. (This was on a PC.) Not sure if this is at all helpful, but just throwing this out as a...

I used to plan more ahead than I do now. I would pick an affinity before starting the game (maybe one I hadn't tried yet in my first few games) and plan everything around it. Now I look at what's on the map and how the resources will support me if I go one way or another. However, it can be a...

It took a while, but I finally got to the same scenario and remembered to save the game. Save file 169 is start of turn, with quest "Homegrown" ready, and prior tech finished. Save file 169a, I picked a new tech to research, THEN finished quest "Homegrown." It accrued the 450 beakers toward...

I thought of that a little while later. You're probably right. The AI is thinking: I need to build a miasma repulser. Look, now I've built one. Look, there is another orbital where I want to put mine. I must create a diplomatic situation whereby the other orbital is removed. What must I say? I...

My experience on this last game has led me to agree with you. I was all excited about having +65% stacked buff on my operatives, but I could have used other virtues to help my base city yields in so many other ways by skipping the Might tree. Now my growth and production are low. So is my beaker...

Let's say you have a Flood Plain, base yield 2 food, 1 energy. You put a farm on it (+1 food). You build Ectogenesis (+1 food). You get some late-game tech that gives you +1 science on every farm. More tech that gives you +1 food and +1 energy on every farm. Then you launch a holo orbital, cheap...

Being dominant in one affinity should make it more difficult to gain points in another. It seems odd that you can advance equally in all the affinities at the same rate even if you are dominant in one. Sort of like how you couldn't switch from Piety to Rationalism in Civ 5 without losing what...

The other thing I'm trying to do with ARC is avoid going Domination too quickly. I want my neighbors to have lots of cities to spy on so I can move around and steal tech!

I'm playing ARC now for the first time, and I'm learning about FOCUS. Stealing techs is fun (I was grabbing some really expensive T3 techs in the early game), but they can also send you off in directions you weren't planning for. I stole a Purity affinity tech that bumped me up from Purity 2 up...

Being a CiV G&K player, I got hooked on stealth bombers, which can fly half-way around the world and obliterate city defenses quickly. I used them as much as possible. Now, TAC jets aren't even nerfed bombers. They're like wee baby planes. So I only use them for defence against AI jets, and for...