Recent content by oawiefga

How to troubleshoot a crash? My game crashes repeatedly, usually within the first 20 turns. It seems to happen immediately after I click "next turn". I have disabled all mods and scenarios. Deleted the cache, verified the files in steam. I don't see any errors in my log files that indicate...

Created a new vehicle unit MOD and the unit is pitched 90 deg forward. The front is buried in the ground and rear is sticking straight up. More confusing, I built the unit MOD on another PC and when I play CIV 5 on this PC the unit facing is normal. So the unit facing is fine on the PC I...

I've already fixed this and thought I would share what I found. Played Civ5 for a couple thousand hours and over the weekend the DX11 versions stopped working following an appcrash. DX9 continued to work fine. Deleted the game and reinstalled. Upgraded drivers. Applied microsoft...

I've been playing America almost exclusively for the last several months. I play on emporer also. This is what works for me. REX from the start. Settle near luxury resources. I space my cities out with 5-7 hexes in between and let the culture fill in the gaps. I build a bare minimum...

Tanks are useful for attacking other units except for gunships and anit-tank. Not so much for attacking cities though. So normally I like to have a few tanks or modern armor that do nothing but clear the enemy territory of units. Leave the cities for mech infantry, artillery, and bombers.

You know how the AI proposes city locations when you build or buy a settler? The max distance for that is 20 hexes but only the 2 nearest city locations are highlighted. Theoretically you could build within the 20 hexes and not get the warning so long as there are still closer city sites...

War does not increase your score directly. Population does though. So as you puppet more cities your pop will increase and so will your score.

A diplomatic victory may be easier/faster to achieve but I've never played a game that couldn't be won by domination. Plan.

It takes time or money to build the courthouse. The only time I annex is when the city location is just so good/strategic that I have to be able to control production. The other benefit/reason to annex is if I need to purchase tiles.

30 gold from being first to encounter a city state That is an important source of early cash flow in my games. Plus happiness from natural wonders and 500gp from being first to find El Dorado. Early game map discovery is still important.

A civ should leave some body of scientific study or even curiousity, examples of art, a written language, and a recorded history among other trappings of society. While there are interesting aspects of the american indian cliff dwellers. I don't think they qualify. They don't leave a recorded...

The nuke bomber can not be intercepted. Stealth bombers have an evasion bonus of 100. They are difficult to intercept and take less damage when they are intercepted. You just happened to hit upon the 2 examples where AA is ineffective.

Bibor I thought this game was a nice addition to the series. Thank you for taking some time to explain some of the factors in your decision making regarding city planning and infrastructure building. But on population control I have a bit of a quandry. Base science is determined by...

You get a real bad rap for eliminating a Civ. Take them down to one or two cities and leave the honors to someone else. If you want to avoid a dog pile be sure to check out which civ's have a DoF with the civ you are about to victimize. DoF can work out okay but be careful who you accept...

My problem with city states is that it always seems that my start location is surrounded by them. So that when I am scoping out my second city location the nearest best 5 or 6 locations are already taken by city states. This really puts a damper on my expansion. Further it seems that City...