Recent content by Mr.Giggles

This isn't really that hard of a challenge. Get weather paradigm. Bribe the AIs to go away (as long as they don't demand a bazillion dollars). Pump out crawlers to solve all of your resource problems. Max out energy by raising elevation as much as possible. Set up a solar farm using mirrors...

Any chance of having a Civ2 (and later) battle system with unit HP? The tank vs spearman problem is pretty much the worst part of Civ 1.

Oh Catapults. Veteran chariot vs catapult, both on plains: Your chariot dies. Veteran catapult vs fortified milita in plains city: You lose three catapults, kill one militia and the AI spawns a chariot and kills your catapult the next turn.

I actually found it modestly unimpressive versus the other modern age units. A single GDR won't win you the game versus a bunch of mech infantry or whatever.

WLTK = "We love the king day". You get it when a lot of your citizens are happy.

You can play online but most online games are essentially over long before you get death robots. But yes, X-Com and Death Robots are super strong, the only limit is your supply of uranium for the robots. You get nukes and nuclear plants well beforehand and those usually suck up all of my...

Probably too far away from a "patch" but wouldn't it make sense for silicoid to consider "Toxic" as gaia and terraform plants from terran to toxic instead of the other way around? What use to them is trees and plants?

Let's not forget the militia killing a bomber.

Push science, conquor somebody early for more breathing room. The RNG in this game is absurdly frustrating so keep some defenders around. Expand early, get the science wonders + colossus. Never research horseback riding, feudalism or chivalry as its all a dead end (chariot is basically "as good"...

Since it's the same engine, did they fix at all the problem of Civ 5 taking way too long to process turns? If its as boring as civ 5 I'm not going to bother getting this game.

Your design goals make it sound like you want to remake Alpha Centauri. Maybe look at what it does - it even has automated armies (though I believe there's a bug related to automated airplanes that causes a crash). More interesting terrain and more options would be nice, too. In Civ1 your...

Looks cool. Pretty please make combat like Civ 2 at least, though. Civ 1 combat is the most frustrating thing in the universe when you have tanks get blown up by guys with sticks. Then again it's also frustrating when you have two riflemen rifle behind city walls on a hill get pwned by a single...

How do you balance AI civs that aren't balanced? Darlok and Bulrathi are the two worst premade civs, and they usually do well on Impossible if the AI gets, as part of its free additional picks, something like aquatic or subterranean. But you can't give that to all of them.

Is there way to improve the AI so it's not always the same four civs who have large empires? Maybe improved build orders?