Recent content by ObadiahtheSlim

On higher difficulties, it may not be worth it to focus on founding a religion and keeping it. It's always worth while to at least get a faith producing pantheon and amassing faith for late game Great People. In fact, on higher difficulty, it can be worthwhile to accept someone else's...

I've seen it happen once before. The celts where pretty universally hated. I had maintained cordial relations with them, but I guess they didn't like me being all BFF with the dutch. I was given the ultimatum to denounce the dutch. I refused and got a DoW for my troubles.

I have found containment to be a good policy on Venice. Declare war and never accept peace. Destroy any unit leaving Venice. Those cargo ships and caravans become a free +100:c5gold:. MoVs are just another unit to be destroyed. If you get on it early enough, he'll never gain a 2nd city.

No wonder is required to win. Aside from GL or Oracle, you can always build it with the point of your sword.

On immortal level play, this is about the extent of my spy as scout. I generally know what wonders are safe to get. I keep a few lookouts to see if there is an army marching on me. What else would I use them for other than LoS for my blitzkrieg?

Depends on how you define easy. It's easier in terms of less management. Your rules are simplified because you can build your NC and other national wonders just by building the base building. You don't have to worry about building them in other cities. In terms of how fast you can achieve...

Order is nice for that +science boost on factories. It helps you get to Internet faster and then back track to hit radar.

Ahh, the AI Entity. AKA the worst wonder ever. You quickly get a lesson in probabilities and how they work. You have about a 50% chance of it staying loyal for at least 20 turns.

I am soo on the hype train for this. Not sure if I'm on the pre-order train, but we'll see.

They need Civ4's empire limiting mechanics. Happiness determines maximum size of a city, maintenance determines how many cities you can afford. It was a great way to balance how tall and wide your empire could be. Conquering a large city didn't suddenly ruin your economy by plunging happiness...

Actually it's Christian Science that is the part you should be worried about. Ironically, they fail both the classical definition for Christian and Science.

As long as you puppet them and don't annex you'll be fine.

Wasn't Carter behind the worst of the stagflation in the 70s? He pushed the federal reserve to increase the money supply and ended up causing a 13% inflation rate.

Another alterntive to razing cities is selling them to AIs who live on the other side of the world. They will often raze it for you and you even get some gold out of the deal.

The biggest fault in Chernobyl was that inserting the rods to SCRAM (shut down) caused a sudden spike in power. This was a design fault and was part of the reason the West never implemented that design. The sudden spike caused a massive steam explosion. However that never would have happened...