Recent content by Osama Bin Davis

I am probably jumping in way too late for this, but by the sounds of it you just want to build a civilization without any chance of a war. I wouldn't classify any of the ones you mentioned as warmongers, and you are probably doing things to provoke them without understanding the mechanics of the...

I have played a few games of 8 civs against myself with no AIs. I made sure everything was random and tried to play with unique playstyles with each civ having a predetermined victory type lined up for it. It is actually quite difficult, the thing that stopped me doing it was purely how long...

I have to say that the average civ player isn't that smart. To be highly skilled at the game is all to do with gaming mechanics not well rounded gameplay with the need to think on your feet. Certain type of personalities are attracted to civ. Generally 3 different types (especially on this...

Japan - Wait until you get Samurais and then take coastal cities while pillaging all of the sea resources. The samurais can then quickly build fishing boats.

It certainly has something to do with your map settings, just change things until you see it. I did some testing earlier and i had the slider until I put it on random map size.

I would guess its because you have the map size set to random that you don't see the city states. The city states have probably been set previously on a map size and the random size keeps that figure?

I never thought of it like that, I guess at the difficulties I usually play on (Prince and King) the air power is fairly redundant. To me anyway! God of the Seas can be awesome with the Japs, though the coastal bias is not always a good thing. I have had some of the worst starts of any civ...

Mine has to be Japan post patch, I find them to be the most flexible so I can go for any VC. The early culture boost that they can get helps immensely, their ability to keep fighting at full strength when weakened helps when at war and the fact the samurai are awesome fighters have just now...

I used to play exclusively on Marathon on Huge maps, but found it got too boring and I was quitting half way through because the game didn't feel balanced enough. You run out of exploration options too quickly, units and buildings take way too long to build etc etc I personally find they just...

No you can create as many fishing boats as you require and the samurai stays a samurai.

What about Japan? Ever since post patch if you get a good coastal start you can also get a lot of Culture quickly from sea resources, plus having the samurai being able to make fishing boats makes for cheap sea resources.

While I don't like the mechanic itself it is required. The thing that annoys me the most is you can kill off a civ before anyone else has met them and they all hate you. That is the unrealistic part.

I am hoping for one more expansion before a new game. This is probably the first civ game that I have thought 3 would be better. I'd love to see a third that does more with diplomacy, spying and exploration. But I reckon we will get a spinoff game before we get Civ 6. I am hoping another...

Generally yes, but very occasionally no! The bias towards coastal is much higher now since the patch, which has made Japan into my favourite civ again. All I can say, is why are you fighting with them without waiting for the samurai? That's just crrrrazzzyyy in my opinion. I always have...

I am from Australia. It's nice to see Melbourne and Sydney in as City States. Uluru and Great Barrier Reef in as Natural Wonders fit perfectly as well. While it'd be nice to have an Australian civ, I can see it just being done for geographical reasons. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But...