Recent content by lodester

can someone point me to, or be so kind as to break down for me, what the end-of-turn processing order is? I'm trying to understand whether the game sweeps through tiles first, then tile stacks, one at a time or if there are parallel operations, such that off-screen tiles/units are processed at...

I have no idea why people hate on Steam. I've been using it since it was released for HL2. At launch it was buggy, for sure, but that is a distant memory. Today it is by far and away the best CDN for PC games, period, and it works perfectly for all 124 games in my library. I wish every PC game...

I just stumbled across that Liberty->GE->Notre Damne in my current game (Cathy) because I had exactly the same question about the GP angle post patch; you can rip through the Liberty tree pretty quickly. For sure this combo is explosive REX early, particularly horizontal expansion.

I will quote myself from the udp forums on the subject of defecation in public bathrooms: "While I would far prefer I have a castle to myself in which to defecate the bottom line is I'm going to take a sh*t, no matter who is around."

there just isnt' enough food up there to expand rapidly enough for that strategy unfortunately. Even with Tradition and three farms (two being worked at the time) it was 14 turns to get a settler, by that time Monty already started planting cities northward and encroaching quickly. I tech'd to...

Thanks for that input. Makes good sense to me. With respect to #2 what i usually do is take some risks with Embarked units only and see if I can coast my way to greener pastures, if you will. This has about a 25% success rate, but when it works it normally gives me a pretty significant...

So, since there is marble nearby and it's a production-heavy area i might grab the marble early and go for some early wonders and get the border expansion that way. I also need to explore the northeast passage as there is a chance that opens up farther north. Either way, seems like early...

So, i'm no Civ master but I've been struggling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H playing the game on and off since the original. I started a [large, standard time, king, continents] game where i just discovered (turn 29 now) that I'm on a continent with Montezuma, Askia, and Hiawatha .. possibly more farther...

This happened to me just last night playing against Bismark on King difficulty. Early on I set two defensive edges around him with a mountain chain between us. In a matter of a few turns he had set down a city on his side in between my two garrison/outpost cities and purchased three second and...

lol poll. Religion was a crutch for a lot of players in civ4, it's amusing to see people complain that it's gone because it was so clearly the least balanced part of the game. And as far as "stacks" go - it was always pretty horrible tbh but it was the only Civ we had. Huddling around and in...

Yeah i have looked all over but there is no screen that I can find that tells you what resources you currently have. The trade screens are obviously filtered, so where do we find out what resources we have all together? EDIT: Nevermind, kinda, the hover over the happiness indicator at the top...

Good poll. Deserves a sticky for a couple of weeks?

I loved Civ4 BtS and just learned to live with the horrible things religion does to the balance of the game. I totally agree that so far Civ5 looks like the best of all of them, by far. 1UPT is the Civ game I always wanted to play, and now it's here!

I posted this in another thread, but I'll add it here. - No game-long statistics view at the end of the game. This awesome nerdacular view with the histogram for output over time vs. all civs. I really, really, really liked this and expected it with Civ5, but it's gone. I heart it and want it...

My point being that nobody has had sufficient time to know "what it actually is" (rather they are inventing scenarios to justify their inability to adapt to the 'new way' of any particular thing) We also need to give the product team an opportunity to go through and patch up based on 1) stuff...