Recent content by Oolon

I'm actually really intrigued by this idea. Let's go with it. A hex can hold four military units. They can be any four mixed units, or specialist units, or whatever. Have you guys ever played Gemcraft? There was a process in which you would take various colors of gems and combine them to...

I don't know if it was mentioned already, but you could just build the city on top of the horses and don't wait for the pasture.

That's the first time I've ever seen Civ: Rev. That portrait is laughably obscene. It's Cameron Diaz. As empress of Russia. What a joke. Did the WWE sponsor that game? Edit: That's like a Russian mail-order bride with fake 18th century boobs and everything. It is really the dumbest thing...

Nope. Sounds like a weird bastardization of Clinton or Bush's accents rather than a man who spent the first 40 years of his life as a British subject. The Colonies probably had their own accents, sure, but Washington was someone who spent his early life around the highest ranking British...

Clearly the solution here is to nuke Belgrade.

A lot of the strategies I'm seeing for cities involve not building things. Is there a way to tell your city to build nothing (before you can produce wealth/research) without hitting shift-enter to force end of turn?

There's no way a game with eight difficulty settings is intentionally made easier to cater to new players. That's why there are levels 1 through 4. There is no inherent discouragement for being brand new to the game and finding level 2 or 3 the most comfortable. They can see the harder levels...

Slightly related, but not really, is when you build the wonder that gives you a free technology, and it finishes when you have one turn left on your current research, you can't save the free tech a turn. I had to waste that bonus completely on something I'd already researched 90%. But that's...

My initial thinking on upkeep is that it's a tiered system based on unit supply (a window I haven't studied very closely). Sometimes deleting a unit changes the unit upkeep, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's eight gold per turn, sometimes it's three. The only method I can explain this is...