Recent content by mayhemster

I think until proved otherwise that this is the new benchmark considering the patch changes

I've been thinking about this but not tried yet... even if you only get to rush buy a few buildings all game then they are still essentially free and more valuable than before when we could build universities in 3 turns cos of overlapping factories. EDIT: thinking about this more, this could be...

Now just chase Stockholm :D + multiple other science CS

Germany will still be amazing because of the free extra district and stronger half-price IZ

I don't think it affects Entertainment zones at all really, 1 well placed Colloseum deals with your ameneties for pretty much the entire game and the AI has never built it before me in any game. It might become important if they nerf that wonder

I think this means that the optimal way to play now will be to go even wider than before. There used to be a point where you had to pretty stop building settlers as you were getting your overlapping IZ zones up but this doesn't apply as much now, so I think you can carry on expanding till pretty...

Not tested but going off the patch notes, the space race will now cost the following production (40% production decrease on projects). Spaceport - 2,000 Earth Satelite - 900 Moon Landing - 1,500 3x Mars modules - 1,800 each Thats 7,800 production for the projects. You can rush the projects...

Cheers leif - I posted the saves and numbers above so you have some evidence of how powerful it is. I shaved 22 turns off my best science victory on a rubbish map with a weak civ as I could just rush all the great people all game without doing anything all that different - chopping woods and...

Have we got a decision yet on the Goddess of the Harvest bug? I used it in the Beta Gauntlet 2 seeing as we're using these games for testing as much as anything, I've just gone back to saves and done a chop for some numbers so you can see how insane it is - remember you can rush buy great people...

The AI isn't that strong but the barbarians can utterly crush you on Deity if you aren't careful.

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It is supposed to give faith per chop, but instead it gives you faith per chop multiplied by the number of cities you have. If you expand fast (like playing properly!) then every single chop or harvest you do gives you crazy amounts of faith.

T178 I'm nowhere near as good as some of you guys are, so let me make this clear now that I only got this finishing time through using goddess of the harvest. This should be banned from hof until the bug is fixed imho as I was chopping stuff for 800 faith at around T80 and 3K faith a chop by...

Awesome game Kruncha. Here's my first submission - T219 I really cocked up my initial conquest, the map should have been viable for a sub 200 finish if not faster but oh well... :D. 4 science CS's even though 2 took me till late to find, no Toronto though which seems to be the single most...

@ShinigamiKenji - I don't think you don't need Neighbourhoods or Entertainment Complexes (except 1 for Colosseum). A well placed Colosseum can almost take care of all your Amenities on its own, you can usually rush buy it with a great engineer if you have been prioritizing IZ and the buildings...