Recent content by lshockley

I'm with ardandy, the road spam annoys me too. What I do is cut all the road leading to the city I'm attacking, and then reconnect them the way I want to once the city (and some or all of the workable tiles in its big fat cross) are mine. Also, there are two other benefits: 1) it helps with...

I play mostly with music off nowadays - but I think it'd be really cool if the music changed when you were at war. There could be a whole second set of martial at-war music for each era. For instance, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture for classical, Holst's Mars (from the Planets) and maybe...

I like that Tokugawa tends towards isolationism, as he did in reality, usually with no more than one trading partner, if any. Japan usually lacks a strong navy, which I believe is also historically accurate. At least according to the book Shogun. :) I find FDR does step up his military...

LOL @Ramesses :lol:

Another reason for getting Buddhism instead of Hinduism could be the relative strength of the religion. If you look in the religion advisor screen, it shows the "strength" of each religion as a percentage, which all add up to 100. Most likely Buddhism has a higher value than Hinduism, so...

hi Sisiutil - thanks for the debate! I agree with you, but, I think as Theocracy operates, rather than as it is defined, even an average player can mitigate by prioritizing the founding of additional religions. However, Theocracy as defined is much more challenging to mitigate. I never...

One other thing to check is that you saved the file as extension .xml, your one time event error may have been caused by a file saved as .txt in error. :crazyeye:

@Lymond, the major disadvantage to your "chain" is that you have to manually reload the units at the relay point each time... that's a lot of extra clicking! Here's what I do, you might like this better too - I build A LOT of galleons - enough that I can always have 2 or more waiting at each...

Oh yes, you are correct, I'm sorry, that was my mistake. I meant +1 mvt vs Musketman. In theory - great! But having to build them all, and then having Rifleman come in just around the corner - not so great. Also, it expects the player to intuitively use the Musketeer as an offensive unit...

Hi there, you can create a script in Python to do this for you. However, I would suggest you come up with some parameters, or all units (incl missionaries, workers, settlers, spies, etc.) will auto-fortify. Head on over to the Creation and Customization room and politely ask the modders to...

@Sisiutil and Baldyr, thanks for the replies! Re:Trade Routes for Land-Locked Cities: In a recent game, my capital was landlocked, but had 5 flood plain tiles with towns, and was my top base commerce city (specializing in Science). I noticed it still had only measly domestic trade routes...

I third France's Musketeer - +1 str vs Musketman, and, Longbowmen don't upgrade to Musketman/Musketeers, so like an earlier poster, it's not so much that the unit is bad, but that it's use is very limited. Fail.

Hey everybody, I'm not really a newbie, but I haven't been on the forum in ages, as my husband and I opened a business right before the economy tanked, so we've been working 7 days a week to stay afloat. I had surgery last week and was stuck at home for a few days, and what better way to spend...

Hello Everybody! I've been very busy and didn't realize how long I'd been away until I started looking through the posts I'd missed! I'm getting ready to go out of town for the rest of the month, but just wanted to check in and say hello, and apologize for my lapse. My husband and I have...

@Classic, well, I've started digging through some medieval era music and I've come to the realization that either I really dislike medieval music (that screechy trumpet-like sound drives me crazy!), or I'm not digging deep enough. I'm sure the latter must be true, so I'm still working away...