Recent content by Pawel

A minor point, but the Dwarven Druid is one of the Luchuirp special units, yet they can't actually build it due to their good alignment. EDIT: I think that even if you consider it to be a feature rather than a bug, an alignment restriction on a UU that requires unnatural game choices, in this...

Could someone also please explain to me exactly how they are supposed to withdraw after charging a city? I just have a difficult time picturing it! :D

Conspiracy theory: They did it just to promote the new Korean civ! :lol: But I agree with the previous poster who wrote that the big problem is that the human player will usually be able to counter the Trebuchet, but the AI will not. This makes SP games boring.

I agree. What usually makes people write a comment is either that they disagree, or that they feel that one of the sides is presenting weak arguments. Thank you for enlightening me! :worship: I think having a balanced mix hardly qualifies as an arms race. ;) I am not suggesting any...

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. The perception that, despite the math, the Philosophical trait gives many more GP:s, could be partly psychological. There are certainly many more gpp:s. To some extent, however, this will also depend on the playing style. GP:s have the biggest impact on...

I don't advocate removing the bonus on universities. But as pi-r8 said, by the time you get them you probably already have a respectable production capability, so they get build rather quickly. As far as the wonders being spread out throughout the empire, well, I guess that depends a little on...

I agree, once you have a sufficient advantage, only a few traits contribute to increase your total score. If you play a very challenging game, however, it can be the difference between life and death.

Some people are actually trying to keep a civilized discussion... Nobody forces you to read or post on this thread.

You may want to freshen up your statistics skills. A sample of about 10/4000 is not significant either way. And this is not a vote. ;) Besides, repeating that you don't like the idea doesn't make your case stronger. I think everybody knows your opinion by now.

With 4000 views to the thread and half-a-dozen dissenting comments, your claim does not seem to have a statistical foundtion that is too impressive. I don't think that having Philosophical civs receive 6 gpp:s per specialist rather than 3 is such a complicated concept. ;) And changes to the...

You have a very good point. Still, I would argue that even under those circumstances other traits are much more reliable. If you get the 'wrong' GP early on, you lose most of the advantage. Industrious pretty much guarantees to give you a couple of extra wonders (and gpp:s), financial will...

If don't include the Parthenon, which reducec this even further, it acually only gives you 33% more gpp:s. What is more important, however, is that it doesn't give you significantly more actual GP:s. It is not clear to me either why the modification I suggest should slow the generation of great...

I don't quite see the contradition. My suggestion would allow wonders to work normally. However, the problem now is that the trait is rather useless for the GP farm. It is only meaningful as part of an empire-strategy, and it does a poor job at that. Replacing the bonus with an increase in the...

I didn't mean that the wonders wouldn't produce gpp:s. Only that the philosophical trait wouldn't give a bonus for the gpp:s from wonders. I thought you would like it since it would make the farm/specialist combo more competitive - if you had a philosophical leader.

I think we already know your opinion.