Recent content by Phate

There is a -1 modifier on relations in Deity, but this is introduced at Noble level, so you may not have noticed it. Warlord gets 0, Chieftain +1 and Settler +2 attitude. The minimum base attitude for any of the leaders (from LeaderHeadInfos.xml) is -1, and max is 2. But if you look in your...

The OR bonus to buildings is only for cities with your state religion, so if you don't pick a state religion, no cities can have the bonus.

Eiffel Tower - Paris Notre Dame - Paris Palace of Versailles - Versailles

How can they be legendary when they were founded in the medieval era :eek: That's some serious culture per turn!

-Trade your surplus resources for gold per turn. WK and HC are offering loads right now. -Why are you researching astronomy??? You have a significant tech lead, so go for MT (+Rifling if necessary) or Steel and use that tech advantage to cap the rest of the map. You could probably conquer the...

Being in OR and 20 turns later realizing you haven't picked a religion...

See this is the problem you're having with all the conflict and muck-slinging. The way you present it often makes it seem (from my perspective, and apparently a few others') like you think BW is a trash tech, that this weird strat is the optimal choice in a significant number of setups, etc...

Obviously yes. If the horse with the lowest weight wins a handicap race, do you consider that cheating? If the jockey intentionally drops some of his handicap weight secretly before the start of a race, do you consider that cheating? Hint: only one is cheating...

The AI doesn't cheat, it just gets a handicap (which you agree to when selecting the difficulty level). It would be endlessly time consuming if not impossible to create an AI which could pose a challenge to a human player with no bonuses. If anything, it's the human who is the cheater. What...

Have you ever played a multiplayer game against a competent opponent? You don't seem to adequately understand/address the key differences between battling a high-difficulty AI and a human player, which was the bulk of the guy's argument. Skipping BW may be viable against the AI in certain...

If you are so worried about efficieny, why are you so worried about health? The two aren't compatible. If you're playing efficient, health won't be an issue because your cities won't grow large enough to hit the health cap until very late-game. Secondly, the health cap itself is nowhere near as...

Wouldn't suggest Phalanxes if they're playing BTS, they got nerfed heavily by having them replace axemen instead of spearmen.

Thanks for posting, beat it in 4 hours this afternoon (certainly not with HoF-level attention paid :lol:)

I'd go Egypt -> War Chariots if he relies on getting Iron before going aggressive. It's possible to go AH as first tech, locate horses ASAP, just chop-whip from 2/3 cities and go ham on him. Fight cheese with cheese. Hatty is preferred because CRE helps with early expansion and IND isn't going...

Emperor, No huts/events - 1745 Religious Victory