Recent content by PerpetualMotion

Well, I know in every game i've played against Isabella, she's eventually come knocking demanding that I convert to her religion, and i usually knuckle under (although as Monty I have a strong urge to tell her to get bent no matter what she says). And the BSOF bonus does seem to go up faster...

Well, I finally got my first Diplo win. And I did it with Arabia, via a game-long alliance with America based on our common Jewish heritage. Civ is just too damn funny some times. Some observations: Religion is the KEY. by the time the vote came around my "brothers and sisters" bonus...

I might actually do this since in my current game I seem to control [I]all the uranium in the world[I] At least it comes up as a tradeable item for every other civ, that means they have none right? Of course then I might as well go for conquest, drop a couple SODs on my uranium mines and just...

Maybe you can explain something i'm doing wrong. Gifting techs doesn't seem to ever effect diplomacy for me. I've always made a habit of periodically gifting techs and ONE TIME i got a plus one for "you shared the secrets of your technology" can't seem to make it have any effect late game...

:goodjob: No, the new "fallback" win (well not exactly new) is Space Race. Far too easy in my opinion. I started a game focussing on spreading my Hinduism, but got stuck on the smaller continent and ran headfirst into a giant Taoist bloc that had been developing unmolested and in peace...

Basically, what the **** do you have to do to get anyone to vote for you? Do you actually have to have all the votes yourself? Everytime I bring up the vote, I have every other nation abstaining, or once in a great while voting for another AI. These are guys I'm Friendly with with like +8-10...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That's one of the funniest things i've ever read. Is that really how it works over there? Makes me less ashamed of our government. We've got a super-nifty tricked out Constitution, unfortunately we stopped using it about 50 years ago. Not sure what happenned there.