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I'm considering situations like: AI city is surrounded by enemies, all at 100% hp. There's some algorithm that determines what to target, and when there are 3 type (melee, archer, siege), the AI will target the archer (!?). This is the least important target, and simply defaulting in that...

I'll admit, it's been a few years since I played Starcraft, but I did find that it played pretty well, and you had to do some very unorthodox tactics to get it to fumble. Regardless, the team did a very good job of coming up with a challenging AI that didn't get any cheats or bonuses, whose...

And you know this because... you've examined the source code of all of them?? :confused: Starcraft is an excellent example of unit tactics being done very well. The AI has a very good feel for the 'rock-paper-scissors' elements present in that game. It knows exactly when it has numerical...

Do citizens change religion once they've converted to one or another? For instance, if I have a border city, with 5 followers of Christianity, and 4 followers of Islam, and 9 population, is there any way this city will flip to Islam if there are no inquisitors or great prophets used? I was...

I started a pretty big discussion about it here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=442231

I guess this is all I'm looking for initially, a win, not necessarily the most glorious win possible. Thanks for the detailed response Jega. And yes, I mis-communicated, I am spacing cities with 3 tiles between them, but I always count to four when I do the calculation and put the city on...

Additional links to recent posts: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=438066&highlight=ICS Both Martin Alvito and Madjinn discuss ICS. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=435044&highlight=ICS A decent discussion of ICS happiness. It seems that a bank is also a good...

From his Songhai playthrough discussion: Sorry I'm not trying to be combative here. I just haven't seen a definitive thread/discussion here on ICS wherein the undisputed conclusion is that it's a bad strategy now, thus the request for a link, thinking I'd overlooked it somewhere. Is it a...

Can you elaborate or provide a link? I know it's been responsible for some significant nerfs since Sulla's articles, but I'm not aware of any changes making it a bad strategy, and having watched a decent chunk of Wainy's Songhai playthrough, he seems to discuss it quite extensively, but I...

I'm slowly moving up the difficulty chain, I'm currently winning Emperor games, looking to move up to Immortal, then Deity. I have a few questions about ICS, but before I get to them wanted to give an overview of my understanding of ICS basics so that if I have some misconceptions they can be...

How do you decide whether to make a city specialize in science:science: output or gold:gold: output? Do you do all of one, none of the other, or a mix of both? Is there a ratio you try to do? Do any resources or other terrain affect your decision? It seems that you would want at least one of...

I've played several more times but haven't gotten the close starts that I was having when I posted earlier. Have you played any more of this game? I'm interested in seeing it further.

Disclaimer - all my games were on standard size map, standard turn rate. In all the cases I tried, the enemy capitol was roughly one BFC away from my capitol. So generally 2 (from my capitol out of BFC) + 5 (width or height of BFC) + 3 (into enemy's BFC). So 10 spaces away - so generally 2...

I have some questions about your conquest of Suryavarman. I tried 4-5 games on Noble last night with Mansa Musa and could not conquer anyone as easily as you did here: 1. You built a barracks for your chariots - what promotion did you take? 2. Your screenshot shows one archer defending - did he...

And once you do, what factors make you choose one victory condition over another? I have this ... problem that most of my victories are military (conquest, domination) - probably because I like war and because I am playing below my skill level. As I ramp up in difficulty, winning world wars...