Recent content by Nvim

I think Civ4 modding has greater resource limitations and wasn't really designed with creating mods like FFH in mind. Lua is probably a better modding language than python. Civ4 took 3 odd years to get the level of tools and the game evolution that allowed people to make FFH type mods. I...

The game should never have launched in this condition, it is truly terrible in every sense. They did not even bother to try to start games with all possible setting options. I tooled around for half an hour and found fairly easy combinations which made the game crash even on standard maps and...

Unless the modders can re-tool the AI then it will always be severely gimped. I am hopeful that this will be fixed in a later patch. For what it is worth, I really enjoyed the Fall from Heaven mod series for Civ4, it was really well done and I enjoyed playing it more than the original game...

The problem is every other aspect of the game is as easy as warmongering. Everything not warmongering is production oriented, even culture. There are just a few more ways to skin the cat outside of warmongering, but it is the same thing, instead of mass producing military you are mass...

I tried with raging, the AI is really stupid and this setting will just make the game even easier than it already is, which is ridiculously easy.

I am not quite sure atm if Civ 5 is worse than Master of Orion 2 as a franchise killer or not. It is heading that way. At least MOO2 wouldn't crash when you selected different options. Gameplay-wise, Civ has lost it's strategic feel, it is more a tactical game now than strategic. Too much...

Military conquest is very much possible, you just have to think like Sun Tzu. ;) Building just one unit type in Civ4 is not what I recommend, most unit types have a massive advantage over others, if you get caught with an AI that has a troop type with a huge bonus against you then it will be...

Some greek territories were city states, others were not, some were monarchies, others were semi-democratic. Athens occupies a much larger region than just a city-state, as did Sparta after it had assimilated some neighbours and become a military state. They had two kings. Greece was a...

Just search google if you do not believe me. ;) But here is a good detailed chronology of Greece: http://www.filetron.com/grkmanual/detailgreekchrono.html Present day Macedonians are of Lusatian decent and have no culture dated before 1300 B.C. They just migrated into the region later on...

The penalties are far more severe at higher difficulty levels, I don't think it is much different numerically, it is just the AI is a lot more sensitive to it from my experience. As to hatred for life, in real life America launched two nuclear weapons at Japan in WW2 and have been for a very...

Modern day Macedonians are not anything like Ancient Macedonians. Moderns day Macedonians are Slavic, Ancient day Macedonians were Greek. Even recent archaelogical discoveries point to the Greek Macedonians traced back to the city-state of Argos. They were considered barbaric because they...