Recent content by LawOfFives

Keeee-rap. Frrsosch, skip me. :blush: Lo5

Got it. I'm mildly considering exiting the game over time, because I took on an exciting, fun, difficult, long-term project last week and I'm not sure if I can serve two masters. However, I promise that 1) I won't just disappear without a trace 2) I won't leave at all if the consensus is...

Couldn't play yesterday, won't be able to today, either. Please skip me, Frrosch. Pneuma -- no problem, let's move on and win this! Lo5

Got it. Tomorrow morning CET... Disappointed with the choice to study Chivalry (no real benefit, yet delays MilTrad), but no use crying over spilled milk. Lo5

PMing Pneuma. If he doesn't post in this thread by late afternoon CET, please play so that I can conveniently *pick up* the save at least. (I only have 'net access at work at the moment, so I'll have to drop back in to drop off the save after I play.) Lo5

The Chasqui Scout doesn't *always* suck, though. On a hilly map the "1 MP on mountains/hills" can -- just barely -- pay for itself. Would be better if you were still allowed to build ordinary scouts and/or they had 1 MP in jungle, though. I don't have any experience with the Portuguese UU...

Hello Ainwood, First off, thanks for a great utility! Now, of course, the begging. ("You only write ven you VAHNT something, sonny!") May I ask for a way to toggle off CA's monitoring for the latest sav file temporarily? I have a rather slow and weak computer, and going from turn to turn...

It's Shift-E. It's my method of preference, since you don't have to hunt down the tiny little E button with the mouse and get distracted by scrolling the map in the process. The star by the capitol is almost as easy as Shift-E (just press H to home in on the capitol, then do the fairly easy task...

The AI is not any smarter. They do have from "more" to "many many more" to "ridiculous amounts of" units, though. (The last of these three is what I've read about Sid -- unit counts *per city* regularly in the hundreds, for example.) So destroying a superior force with an inferior one is a...

I haggle down to the very last piece of gold or until I get bored, whichever comes first. Usually that means to the last piece of gold ! It's not such a problem. If they really didn't want to take the deal at a given price, they wouldn't. Besides, they drive pretty hard bargains themselves...

The meaning of WAO you mention is the one I had in mind -- I have a Dutch friend who is on it. As for defensive units always and only slowing you down against the AI -- every rule has its exceptions, non? If it's clear that an attack is unavoidable and you're positive that the AI *will* be...

He might simply be a troll. Possible evidence: wouldn't a poster who was *that* megalomaniac have signed in a second time? Lo5

Basically it's about getting the most your-value-to-their-value (no matter whether attack or defense) on average out of a given number of shields. Most of the time I'd agree with you, WOA*, but if there are times when the attack can be reliably funneled towards a certain point where a defensive...

66% success -- about what I landed at during that marathon of just doing slingshots -- is also success more often failure, so maybe something like that is actually what you were pointing to, and so we actually agree on the success rate, but disagree on its impact. :-) Lo5

Probably OK or even smart in Monarchy, since defenders in ideal territory give a lot of "attack" power for the shields. They won't heal, though, so you'll need to recycle them, adding a bit of cost. In Republic, you'll be paying for this tactic with war weariness on top of the usual costs...