Recent content by peppe1

How does a strategy become obsolete when the game has not been patched/changed? What is popular in the forums certainly changes as the active players change. Optimal has always been play the map to make the most of every tile, but whether you slice up your land for farms or cottages can...

Moving your initial settler is an advanced strategy. I would settle in place until you are higher up and looking for optimized play. In this case I wouldn't move the settler anyway -- silk/calendar resources are not a tile to move for -- moving the capital to the hill loses you a turn now...

You didn't mention game speed or difficulty. Windows for attacking are larger the slower the speed, so units that don't get much use on normal speed might find a role at epic or marathon speeds. I'll assume normal map size. If you play larger maps add a couple cities... First siege is a...

How do you know your continent is crowded or isolated on turn 1 to make the choice between warrior vs worker? You have to assume you are isolated until you discover another civ. At least on the map scripts I play there is always the chance of isolation or semi isolation. If you discover...

If i play out the save I have on that I think the capital + the other two contributing a little will be ok to war with. I didn't expect to get hemmed in so quickly since i don't play immortal normally. If i had expected war this early I would not be researching priesthood -> literature...

Whats your empire look like at 750 BC? 1AD? I'm not an immortal player. I'm not an epic player. I am fairly lost without BUG :P Usually play better AI at a lower difficulty. The pace was way too tedious for me so i stopped at turn 130 (750BC):

I believe MarigoldRan position was you go warriors + settlers for a while. Believe you steal your worker if you are going to have one by alphabet? and wonder spam? If your worker steal is unsuccessful not sure when you self build a worker. So I guess MarigoldRan's challenge is to play...

One thing to note is what the great person can bulb changes as you research techs, so if you don't like their current bulb tech you can research it and get something better. If at the moment they can only bulb mathematics which only has a base cost of 250 beakers (scientist contribute 1500 +...

Grow to happy cap. Once you are at or near the current happy cap maximize the output of the city through working resource tiles, specialists, and improved tiles. Improved tiles are not always better than a specialist, so take a good look at each city's tiles vs specialists. As was...

I usually attack by using a ctr and selecting the type of unit i want, so in a mixed stack I would open with ctr click siege then follow with ctr click main attacking unit type. I don't know the order the game attacks with if you have them all selected. I believe when they are all the same...

I usually go by happy city size vs improved tiles. If a city is going to grow onto an unimproved tile and you don't have a worker available to improve a tile for that city you need more workers. If I don't see this coming and prevent it then I have failed as the leader of my civ. You may...

Advanced start? Lets you spend a certain amount of point to start with more cities, techs, units, etc.. Custom game - Start in an era other than ancient? Skip the early eras you don't like...

Screenshots are better if you want responses...

Better AI was incorporated into the release of BTS, but the better AI mod has continued to be developed since the release of BTS in 2007. Better AI has come a long way since then... BUG is just a user interface mod. Unaltered gameplay. BUFFY is BUG + Hall of fame mod, which doesn't alter...

I believe better AI considers distance more heavily in war declaration, so that might have created a different outcome here. I know it is not a sea invasion here, but it certainly handles that much better than the base AI, which can barely transport more than one boat worth of troops at a time.