Recent content by Meltemi

I do, in fact, so I do expect them to eventually come back; I was partially concerned that the new entrants would themselves get hammered back to the Stone Age by the barbarians in the same way, though I didn't play far enough ahead to confirm or deny that. I'll definitely take the...

I was just bumping this up a bit to ask if the rate of civilization extinctions was intended. With Raging Barbarians active on Prince difficulty (I usually play Prince or Monarch depending on mood), I went from 12 civilizations on a Huge map to 3. A second game went from 12 to 5 before I had...

Welp, BE will be awful, just a knock-off with the Civ5 engine that'll only be mentioned in the same breath as the Civ4 Colonization remake by this time next year. Art of War will be horribly buggy until at least three major patches get pushed out, the religious coalition system will be...

Ow. Ow ow ow. No. That is a complete, utter, and total misrepresentation. I usually hear this kind of claim asserted against the Muslim invasion of Egypt under Amir ibn al'Aas (to whom is usually attributed the line, "If it is in agreement with the Quran, we have no need for it, and if it is...

Well, yes, which is rather the point. I would not include colonies in the list except as "debatable" (at the most) because while they served as seats of political authority, they never actually exercised sovereign power, but the vast majority of the list actually did run sovereign states, and...

Your list needs a lot of work: Warsaw - Yes Cahokia - Historical Jerusalem - Historical Budapest - Yes Jakarta - Yes Zurich - Yes (Imperial Free City before joining the Old Swiss Confederation) Geneva - No Sydney - No Venice - Yes (Venice was a free nation for centuries) Florence -...

In what way? The Inquisitions were around long before Issie set the precedent of an Inquistion under secular, royal command. It was far from a nice institution, but it was no Holocaust, even after the Protestant Reformation caused a knee-jerk reaction against humanist philosophies, and it did...

Which canals are you talking about? Most canals, like Panama, White-Baltic, and Kiel, rely on multiple series of locks simply to balance between the different water levels of the two sides, and while a handful like the Suez don't require any locks, that one still requires regular maintenance to...

I thank you for all of your hard work on this. This mod in conjunction with RevDCM, is probably the best available in my opinion, and I actually haven't been able to take vanilla nearly as seriously since I started playing RoM. ^_^

Some ability to drain the fens and marshes to create grasslands would be appreciated, though, since such things did happen throughout history. I think the English Fens weren't drained in earnest until the 17th century, but none of the plans were successful for more than a couple years until the...