Recent content by kurdi

I think fave Civic means that, should you be playing against the AI-controlled Americans, they would be favorably inclined towards you diplomatically if you adopt their stated favorite civic (univ. suffrage). As for any bonuses for playing under your own Civ's favorite civic ... I don't know...

If you mouse over your score it tells you roughly where it is coming from. Based on the info you provided, I would guess that the deciding factors were the sizes of your territory and population -- probably much smaller than AI civs.

Yes.. go here http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148106

What do you guys think about Firaxis increasing the cost of Praetorians from 40 to 45 hammers in the v152 patch.

Thanks guys... I think I'm in a relatively good position now; here's what I did: - After getting alphabet, I stopped most all production in all my cities and produced research until I got code of laws - Having so much land, I realized that my newly acquired cities also had a lot of forests...

Thx Grelar... good ideas there :) I guess I'll just go for all out cottage spam and switch some cities' production to commerce, if in fact I can do that without having to research some tech first.

This thread is to pose the following question: how do you transform a warmongering strategy once war is no longer feasible. After winning 4 games on Monarch (2 culture+2 time wins), I tried my hand at emperor for 6 (aborted) games unsuccessfully. Eventually, I went for a warmongering...

This thread is to pose the following question: how do you transform a warmongering strategy once war is no longer feasible. After winning 4 games on Monarch (2 culture+2 time wins), I tried my hand at emperor for 6 (aborted) games unsuccessfully. Eventually, I went for a warmongering...

HAH!! I didn't even catch that one... Police State AND Free Speech... :D :D :D Nope... I don't think that will work in the REAL world!!

I dont remember time victory having one either.

I think that you are simply spared the maintainence costs for that city as long as they are in 'celebration'

Im not sure that that's necessarily correct, that the earlier you beat the game the higher your score. Or perhaps it is... The reason I'm not sure is that I actually had a higher score through a time victory (ranked ivan the terrible) on monarch than I did through a cultural victory (ranked...

Longbowmen are pretty darn powerful! If you dont have catapults you should plan on sending in 2 praetorians for every longman defending.

I dont think its an exploit. I mean, conquerors in the real world have often resorted to creating an artificial "cast system" where they created an elite class out of some minority, and this elite class essentially ran the country for them as their quasi agents, typically, with disastrous...

Oh... while still in revolt?? ... I had no idea. I could have sworn that I **tried** to force specialists while the city was still in revolt without the computer allowing it to happen. This might explain why everybody's raving about the Roman war machine while I'm overexpanding and being...