Recent content by Leviat

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." --Albert Einstein

I think this is the best game-mechanic proposal I've read on this forum! Great job, Marshal.

I'll rate these for single-player games. Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar II): 9 Great civ. -How anyone could play a game with them and not believe them to be a top-tier civ is beyond me. Argument has been made many times in this thread already. Early Academy=unis first=pub schools first= research...

Salt helps. That start is... not great. Half of your tiles are going to be unworkable snow tiles or nearly useless tundra/ocean tiles. On the plus side, hill+river+ocean is good, and those 5 ocean resources contain 22 food, so they'll feed 6 other tiles. With a lighthouse and the pantheon...

I had a strange thing happen in a game. My neighbor built Borobudur in their capital (as well as a few other wonders), but when I conquered it Borobudur just disappeared. Has this happened to anyone else?

Let's put this additional science in context. Also note that the your capital does not increase tech costs. Lasers costs 8894 normally (civilopedia online says 7700 but game contradicts this). Each extra city the cost rises~ 445. With three extra cities the cost rises 1334 to 10,228. At 20...

So far Venice is my favorite new civ, I love the $$$$$. Buying city-states also has the added bonus that you usually get 1-2 natural wonders in your puppets 0:) But, of the civs I've played (Venice, Morocco, France, Shoshone, Poland), I think Poland is the best new civ. It was only one...

This would be a nice change, and more realistic than "woops that caravan disappeared" like we have now. #1- As to defending trade routes, they should have a unit command that is "follow and protect that trade route" so that the player doesnt need to move the frigate with the cargo ship every...

Morocco AI has been really strong in game's I've played. As usual, anecdotal evidence shouldn't be taken too seriously. My experiences playing as Morocco and Venice were both very peaceful. My experiences playing as France, Poland, and the Shoshone weren't warlike by G&K standards, but...

:0 But will the AI be able to expand as easily in BNW, since their happiness bonuses are nerfed?

Not useless. Roads costs 1 gold/turn in maintenance. So, every forest in place of a road is like +1 gold/turn, and it's available immediately, so you don't have to spend precious early turns having a worker construct the road. Now that roads increase the distance of caravans, the Iroquois UA...

Tourism! Tourism will make the late-game fun again, no matter your victory condition. And it especially helps culture victories, which were downright bland. Now I am excited to try for one my first game of BNW. Scouring the globe for ancient artifacts and bringing them back to put in my...

It's hard to say without playing, but I'd guess Shoshone or Poland. Shoshone depend a lot on how the AI can use Pathfinders, and the limits of AI happiness. If the AI can still rapidly expand early, then they can claim even more land than usual, really starving nearby players for land. But...

Agreed. Please let us play the game before deciding which civs are weak! Especially given all the new gameplay mechanics, I think we'll all need to play BNW for awhile before passing judgment on the civs.

I matched my civ with the map when I was moving up to a new level, but once you are accustomed to the difficulty level I think it's more fun/challenging to just random/random the civ and the map. Increasing the map size/decrease the number of civs might make things easier if you plan on going...