Recent content by melcron

I've done neither of these things in any of the 15 apollo games I've played and it's still too easy. So not sure where that comment is coming from.

Daoming Sochua (Pan-Asian Cooperative) - 22 Hutama (Polystralia) - 14 I hate waiting for improvements to be built and the faster workers help greatly for mass building terrascapes. As for Hutama: trade routes are bound to be nerfed.

Me. Whatever I'm playing ;-)

I've played 12 campaigns and will probably slow down a bit but still enjoying the game. I've also been toying with some mods in short games that I didn't count in the above number.

Alright, I'm on my 12th game and I'm finally at a point where the forces I face are enough to require constant pressure to advance. The continent is a thin crescent so all warfare is done in a column and I don't have boats yet so it's been rather interesting warfare. I took out ARC in the...

Probably terrible. ;-) I am enjoying the Beyond Balance mod which limits trade routes to one.

In most of my games the Slavs declare war the most readily but PAC end up controlling the other half of the continent by the time I get there. A war between two warmongers is always fun.

I've noticed the same issue. The first game I played the auto-manager started building terrascapes everywhere until my net income was negative. I've since switched to manually managing cities/production. Although in my last game I tried only building farms and biowells (unless the tile had a...

In my defense I initially joined just to vote for my favorite Civ 5 war theme :lol: I'll let this thread get back on topic now.

Or perhaps it's because I purchased Civ 5 only recently and have never played vanilla (unmodded). I retract my Settler comment but maintain that the game is too easy and I agree that it is easily addressed. So apparently I'm an ignorant troll ;-) Always a good start when joining a forum.

Let's hope that's my experience soon.

I said I wasn't exaggerating because I wasn't exaggerating. The game is fun and will get better with patches but at the moment city spamming + trade routes + prosperity is simply broken (although steamrolling the AI with an advanced army is gratifying). The responses I've received in this thread...

Yes. Have you played Beyond Earth? ;) The aliens and combat might be easier in Civ V (Settler) but spamming cities and managing health(happiness)/culture/science/gold is easier in Civ BE (Apollo).

I don't play smart (it's not necessary) and I've been attacked before but I can easily go from little to no army to a force which can turn the tides within 5-10 turns... Apollo is not easy compared to Emperor difficulty: it's easy compared to Settler. That is not an exaggeration. If anyone is...

Arabia - 11+1=12 Brazil - 9 England - 14 Indonesia - 8-3=5 Sweden - 11 Arabia: The theme is ominous throughout, while England's starts strong but starts to decline. Indonesia: This one doesn't feel remotely threatening to me.