Recent content by Megalou

Liberty-Republic-Collective Rule-Citizenship-Monarchy---Rest of liberty tree

I drained Shaka's troops for many turns with a few archers upgraded to CBs and then eliminated him. Apart from that I stayed friendly and wasn't even denounced once. Not that Research agreements gave a lot, but it was nice to have some set up. Tricks for staying friends included gifting 3...

In my game Umgungundlovu was founded no less than 3 tiles further to the west. If you founded Novgorod before Shaka founded Umgungundlovu (I'm a masochist just for writing that name twice), which seems highly likely considering how soon you built your two settlers, that is probably the reason. I...

Do you mean to say that the free settler comes too late on Deity? Sometimes, yes probably. But I don’t think it’s useless. 🤔 I’ve gone from spending my money on CS gifts to mainly buy tiles. In some games it’s possible to save 500 💰 for an early settler but normally it’s a bit too much.

What do you mean by liberty being viable? It’s available from the beginning, I believe. I agree about the slow borders. Buying tiles is the only comfort I suppose.

I sometimes start with citizenship, eg if alone on an island, but it was listed first because it was the first good Liberty policy I thought of. It would be nice to compare but I’m not going to commit to Tradition beforehand.

Your answer is sensible but it seems I should point out that I never advocated going for the free worker first as a rule. Popping 20 culture speeds up the policies regardless of what you choose since you quickly go from 1 culture per turn to 2.

This is surely true for a lot of games, but please elaborate on ”higher difficulty”, since this game is not on a high difficulty level. It is unlikely that the good spots to settle will be grabbed by the AI.

I am in love with the liberty tree but this time I may try to resist it. Here's a comparison of the main advantages and your comments would be interesting: Liberty: * Citizenship: The free worker comes early or fairly early, especially if you pop 20 culture, and unlike a captured worker doesn't...

just scroll past the sticky threads.

I tried a map with the same stats and there is just a huge amount of snow tiles. But if the map is standard size, there seems to be room for a lot of normal tiles too, normal meaning mainly plains rather than grassland, though!

Welcome! Yea, the city improvement Big Black Pot should be included in future versions. Big black pots to automatically boil all inoming missionaries. Cost 1000 hammers but I'll build it anyway.

I had the same sequence but chose two turns on a scout which later helped me spot Sri Pada on turn 31. How did you spot it? I picked Monument to the Gods which helped with the wonders. Though I have a feeling that the faster game is simpler, with Stone Circles or Goddess of festivals. Yes...

Great timing, I'd say, and great foresight with the great writers! As for policies, I got the free worker one too. Next time, I'll try to skip that. After all, I used 4 turns to build a rather useless scout, and a worker would only have cost about 5-7 more depending on the time it was built.

That's really very neat. It would be interesting to hear what social policies you prioritized earlier, pushing the free great musician to the very end. For instance, did you bother with Mandate of Heaven? 'Cause I reckoned it was pretty obvious for you too that Greece would be the toughest nut...