Recent content by Panopticon

The word of Soren. https://www.designer-notes.com/?p=449

I can't remember the source, but I remember this anecdote. The above principle was used while selecting the soundtrack for Civ IV, and when they got to Bach's double violin concerto, they gave up because they liked it so much.

I find growing the economy hardest of all, it's so hard to run against corruption, while claiming more than a handful of foreign cities. Korea is pretty easy. For sinking other civs' ships, the clue is that some ships around mid-game are especially good at finding targets.

I only have mild humour to contribute, except for one actual but useless fact. So here goes: Canada should be 1/4 French, modern Egypt is the best Egypt but AoM is very funny, and when I first read the post, I thought that you were offering a bit of Polish. The actual useless fact is that the...

How about a Celtic civ with semi-mythical French Gaulish and Welsh British leaders with late-modern Scottish Gaelic diplo music that speaks contemporary Irish.

The "Reverse An Lushan" gambit.

Before anything here, I want to reiterate my thanks to Leoreth for the surely thousands of hours Leoreth has dedicated to producing free product for us to enjoy. I can tell you exactly why the Protestant sects were added to RFC as a mod (though not exactly to DoC, so nothing here speaks for...

Yet I'd also guess most educated Western people have heard of Sunni and Shi'a; they're more, er, newsworthy sects.

I'm sure Rhye will do whatever it may please him, as a voluntary worker for the community, to do.

Fatimids too, and it would make a lot of sense for diplomacy, but the last thing needed right now is more -12 Bad Relations collapsing civs.

Egypt is ranked something like 130/190 for GDP per capita, so this is fine. Anyway, if you need it for the UHV, aren't you already winning?

Pre-1770s Native American civ can be represented by American civ.

Do older civs get penalties over time. For sure, economy matters a lot - with more corruption meaning worse stability, as tends to happen over time. And negative relations with other civs matters a lot. Each of those can matter as much as having overextension, but you can easily not notice.

By start, do people mean the loading of a game save file? I always load, wait for Setup Map, then hit Windows key, program gets minimised, then click back into the program and it has usually skipped the longest loading step. If that helps.

Hmm, it seems at some point you meet powerful Islamic civs who hate you for religious reasons, so you get like -8 bad relations instability, plus some economic penalty from losing commerce (despite rapid growth) so you get -12. I must be getting old but I don't have time to work out why these...