Recent content by Magus Maximus

Now to thicken the plot a little further, I will throw in some more information about this game. One of the other military powers in the game, with top 3 army, is Rome. They have recently just eliminated Austria from the game. I have no idea how many other cities they took up to this point since...

I took 16 cities before my ram and horse archers became practically useless. This was 16 cities (4 capitals) by Renaissance. I was pretty much at perma war while I took out the for civs. In the Mongol game I used in comparison, I started the war with chariots, so around the same time, and took...

Perhaps I should've been more clear: in one game I took one capital and one non capital city and was penalized more harshly than in my current game in which I took 16 cities total (including 4 capitals).

As all of us are aware, the Fall Patch severely changed the way the AI responds to the "warmonger threat". Being someone who prefers domination, I was one of the many who protested the change in other threads. The new penalties seemed a bit too severe now. My opinion about the new system came...

I find that Dido does that all the time. First two times I fell for it...shame on me. Though she waited until I made piece with the target shortly before she denounced and DOWed me. Definitely seems like a deceitful human tactic to distract me with another war, make me displace my units, and...

I have my doubts about giving back cities to the AI as a way to repair warmonger status. If you read the example I posted earlier on this thread you will see that in that game: -Rome took Osaka. -I returned Osaka back to Japan after acquiring it through a peace deal from Rome. -Rome...

It is true that honor does have some happiness. However, even if it compares to liberty and/or tradition, that is still not enough. Once everybody hates you, you won't be able to trade luxuries. Also, grabbing happiness from CSs can be hard once they are all locked in perma war with you because...

I will say that this new system made the honor closer much more valuable than before. In my current game with the Mongols (Emperor), I experimented with going full honor and piety. I am currently at war with about 9 different civs. Although I've been running at a -20 to -40 economy for about 50...

I will add to the discussion and side with Cromagus and describe a ridiculous scenario that happened to me a few days ago: I was playing as the Inca. Settings are Emperor, Large, Continents, 12 civs. In my continent were the Romans, Japan, Siam, Venice, Arabia and Celts. Early in the game, Rome...

The only thing that raised my suspicion is that last time this happened, it happened the turn right after I declared war. I declared war, move my ships to the coast, attacked, hit next turn and boom, there was a ship that wasn't there before bombarding me. I didn't have a particularly large...

Thanks! I'll look into it!

Sometimes the easiest explanation is the right one. I would say it's too much coincidence, especially since one of these times they were not at war with anyone. But at the same time, more often than not when I siege a city and this does not happen so it could be just conincidence. I guess if...

I have to go with Domination. However, that sometimes is interrupted by the AI starting the space race. Then I just switch gears to SV if I'm in position to try that or look at other ways I can beat them. I tend to panic if I see boosters flying! I tried culture and science before but I get...

Hello all. I haven't posted on these boards in a few years since the days of CivIII. I recently bought CiV G&K and been playing more than it's healthy probably...anyway, moving on to my question. I've seen this happened twice now. I position my units to attack a coastal city. No units...

Usually diplomacy Whenever the AI build the UN i lose cus I forget that Im supposed to stay friends with most of the world, and go around attacking civ after civ. Its not the often that I give the AI the pleasure of build that wonder. Its just the sometimes i forget to pre-build it...