Recent content by Otheon

My wife bought me Civ I for Christmas of 1991(we were dating, not married yet). It went on my shiny, new, 386-33 which was about the fastest home computer out at the time(with 2 megs of ram even and a 512k video card, lol.) She bought it at my request after I saw it in stores. At the time I was...

He's in college as an engineering student and you introduce him to the mother of all time-consuming games. Methinks it only fair that you let him move back in with you when he drops out of college, lol. I myself have been an avid gamer since forever - half strategy, half MMORPG. I gave WoW 3...

As long as you can buy great people with your faith, I find it hard to say you overinvested. For cultural wins, it's a lot easier to fill up those remaining great artist/writer/musician slots through buying with faith. Works nicely for purchasing great scientists for science victory or popping a...

I don't understand how they killed your archer. He should have been inside your city, where they can't hit him and you can range attack with your city bombardment and the archer while building another warrior/archer. In BNW, you're going to need more than one military unit to take out an...

Is it still buggy? I can't get past the poor, too busy Steam servers to find out for myself. Just as well, I guess. I leave this Sunday for a week long vacation and won't get to play BNW until I get back. Maybe everything(including the BNW bugs) will be fixed by then.

I get burned out on Civ after a week or two and have to take a break and do something else lest I start thinking in turn based mode irl, lol. My advice to you would be to switch games, read a good book(I'm currently back reading the Malazan series, the Esslemont one), get outside, pretty much...

He probably had the religion benefits of being stronger defending his own cities and/or the one that heals him extra when next to a city;. Those can be a royal pia when it's your opponent and not you that has them.

That's pretty much my list of bad/lazy habits right there. I specialize when it's pretty obvious that a particular city lends itself to something. I don't micromanage this generally, however(unlike how I micromanage everything else). I get lazy selling resources mid game. Seems silly to...

Last game I played I thought surely this was the case. Turned out it was the Inca and Babylon tag teaming to beat me to early wonders, by one turn not once, but twice even. Somehow each one ended up on his own continent, playing continents now, mind you, not small contientents. They sat and...

Units in a city automatically garrison now.

I've seen several mentions of small continents. I don't see this as an option in the explorer's map pack, so are you using the continents setting with high water level to achieve this, or is it from somewhere else? Never mind, lol. I just found my answer. I never looked under map type under...

I've only played one game as Theodora so far, my first game after getting G&K, and was doing quite well until Austria ran away with their damn OP CS buying ability. I didn't know then that if you find Austria in your game you take them out early. :(

I started experiencing the same problems last night at about turn 235+ in my first game since installation. All of a sudden, the game became laggy, choppy, slow. I alt-tabbed out to see if something else started running(damn McAfee automatic update or something). It wasn't McAfee, but Nero(and...

It's all about entertainment value for me. So I paid $23 at Costco for PTW. My first full game has already surpassed 25 hours of thoroughly engrossing, addictive and enjoyable playing time. Hell, I pay $40 per month for expanded basic cable tv and I don't watch 25 hours of tv a month even. PTW...

Many, many of the first games I played of vanilla Civ III was archipelago. I thought that it favored my peaceful, build my infrastructure and use my tech and manufacturing advantages in the modern era to kick major butt style of play. Like everyone said, Lighthouse is a must! It allows you to...