Recent content by Orca

I got a 1132 one with Huanya Capac, too bad my games are excluded because I had to use auto save for a couple of times - my game isnt 100% stable (and i was stupid enough to say so). While I can certainly understand the staff doing everthing to permit cheating I think they overdid here. I...

Well said ^^

@Chris : I play for fun in the first place and wont play a game with settings that look silly to me just to proof something that I know anyway. However its good that BlueRenner takes the time to do it.

I like to play a game during on day, it just feals a little odd to get into a game again after a longer brake. I think if you play a game in one session (with some short breaks) you have a better feeling for things happening.

I disagree that you have to try everthing out to have a solid opinion about it. Whats the point to do a Space race Victory starting advanced ? It just doesnt make sense to me at all to take away almost everthing of the game and reduce it to an optimize X turns with a Build Order game. How can...

Pyramids - no doubt.

@Craterus22 : I think many people have some problems with stability, however I think the patterns for saving abuse and autosave usage after Back to Desktop Freeze or graphic sluggishness are different. I guess it will be relatively easy to distinguish between cheaters and players having...

I find it very odd that you have to play worse than you can in GOTMs to get a higher score and a better rating. To talk of skill in this context looks weird from my point of view, where is the skill if you have to delay your victory ? I think everybody can do this - huh. It comes down to who can...

Long-term considerations are not very important ! I see this fault in thinking so often here on the boards, what you gain in short terms will multiply over the years and overgrow the longterm penalties by far.

Spiritual and Organized seem to be the most underrated traits in the game. Spiritual allows for many special tactics, i give you some examples. Say you have several religions and no Stonehenge. In this case you often want to switch frequently between religions so that all your cities (with...

Not to start in Ancient age looks simply silly to me. I havent tried yet, however from my imagination it will take away fun and skill.

Have you tried Mao already ? From my imaginition i would say going without cottages and Financial trait will bring you nowhere close to the best finish dates.

I think AC is really not a game for beginners. With Civ4 on the other hand you can have lots of fun as a causual player also. That said start with AC if you are an expert for those kind of games otherwise play CIV4.

AIs settle very fast on higher levels so with standard amount of AI players it doesnt take too long until all good places are taken.

Maybe i did misunderstand someone when he said its extremly difficult to get more than five (thinking it wasnt possible at all). Im gonna cry if i loose gauntlet three because i misunderstand that lol.