Recent content by Naismith

Unfortunately, you have to build the stables first. Stables cost hammers - there's no good way of figuring that into the hammer cost of capturing cities. If you are building large numbers of horse archers, you probably have to build a stable in more than one or two cities. Building stables...

The best strategy is not to get invaded in the first place. :) The AI consults its "personality" and the power rating when deciding whether to declare war, and who to declare war on. You have to know the personality of the various civ leaders, and watch the power ratings carefully. You...

If you do have all the votes you need by yourself, don't fret. Just build some missionaries and convert AI cities until you are under the threshold again.

The wording in Civilopedia is confusing, but I suspect KmadCandy is right. Strange about pillaging - back when vanilla first came out, I saw several posts saying that pillaging added to WW. I guess they were just wrong.

I have a couple of quick Zeus questions: 1) If I capture a city with the Statue of Zeus in it, does the increased war weariness for my opponent start immediately, or does it start when the city comes out of resistance? 2) I'm unclear about the increased war weariness: Does it apply to...

I like your idea. Given the AI's love of spies, it might even things out a bit diplomatically. As it is, the human tends to collect more negatives for refusing tribute, civic changes, etc. The AI's would tend to collect more negatives for spies being caught. It would give the human player...

The biggest problem is QA. In theory, every time any code change is made, a complete QA of the entire product on every configuration is required. Of course, this theory is routinely ignored in the software industry, because of the prohibitive costs in time and money. But that in turn causes...

If they took all our suggestions for startup options, there would probably be 5 screens of them. :lol: That would be fine with me, but might seem overwhelming to more casual players. I'm sure Firaxis also realizes more startup options means more stuff to QA.

I agree as well. You can get the same effect pretty easily if you're willing to mod a couple of properties in one XML file (the diplo win voting percentage for both AP and UN). Just set them both to 99%. In Civ3, you could change the domination percentages, cultural win threshold, etc...

I modded the XML to make domination victory occur at a lower percentage. I believe on a large map, I need around 38-40% of landmass and pop. The game is really over once you reach that point. Even so, I have to agree that the UN backdoor diplo win is a plus for the reasons you stated.

I don't think it should be changed as part of the unofficial patch. That would clearly constitute a gameplay change rather than a bug fix. I've never liked the diplo system in CivIV. Diplo win voting should not be population based, but should instead be based on one Civ, one vote, with a...

I think it's worth building the AP just so you can dictate which religion will get the +2 hammers for temples, monasteries and cathedrals. Otherwise you may end up having to spread your rival's religion in your own cities to get the bonus - probably giving them +1G for each city you convert...

Yes, the little Admiral - I don't really have his flair for strategy or tactics, though. Bujold is probably my favorite author.

My suggestion: Wait before buying a new game, expansion or patch. Review the complaints and issues. For BTS, I didn't even buy it until 3.02 and Solver's patch were available. I never installed 3.03. I didn't install 3.13 until Bruic's patch was out for almost a week. For those of you...

From what I've seen post-3.13, if you have enough votes to win AP diplo all by yourself, the AP diplo victory vote simply won't come up. It doesn't matter if other Civs are willing to vote for you or not. I suspect the same applies to the UN diplo victory vote.