Recent content by Phuc Nguyen

I think it’s more about your playstyle than about game balance. Early game you don’t have enough techs, workers to improve luxury resources. You can’t connect cities quick enough to negate isolation. Though you always want to grow as fast as possible without thinking about consequences. That’s...

What makes korea and venice OP in MP?

You’re repeating what BiteInTheMark and I said: that start can only work if you can invade Arabia early. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time.

Rushing well will slow down your faith buildings, so the same result of unabling to found a religion. I think he should settle cities up north for some forests to work. His cities have like no production at all with all those flat deserts and floodplains. Better choice would be to reroll...

Tbh, I think you have a very bad start with almost no production at all. Even if you try to rush faith buildings, that won’t help because they will come online too late. And your choice of places for settling is bad too. So I think that’s better for you to learn more about the game than...

Awesome. Just when I need to start a new game.

Agree with some of your points, but for a civ that is always warring, your happiness is hard to control already, I don’t think food is that good since you really don’t want to overgrow.

Yeah Mongol is my go-to when I want to play a domination game because I like the mechanic of hit and run that Mongol has and its OP Khan. That’s why I think Statecraft has no synergy with Authority, but for other Civs, it makes sense. Fealty is a really weak tree that I almost never choose and...

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Why though? Do you need it to make better play? I don’t think it will help much because it’s much more complicated than what is described in the game already. Or do you need it just to argue with the mod developers? Then you don’t need to, because BiteInTheMark will do it for you anyway.

Maybe you’re right. I will try it next time. Intuitively I think Authority encourages you to bully and capture CS while Statecraft tell you to befriend with them, that’s why I don’t think they don’t work well together.

I’ve never got any problems with happiness. U just need a little of micromanaging imo. Like look at what causes unhappiness in every city and try to fix it. Connect cities asap to not get unhappiness from isolation. Rush for wonders that globally reduce Boredom, Distress, illiteracy, religious...

Keep up the good work Minh Le. I always like your contents very much. I’ve been a pacifist player for a long time and I’ve learnt a lot from you at how to be aggressive. Thank you.

With Authority, you’re expected to be always at war because wars are your main source of yields. But if you fail to snowball really hard then you will slowly fall behind to the point of never catching up. Another downside of Authority is it has no synergy with Statecraft or Artistry, except...

As far as I understand, if the bonus goes with “cities” then it’s global, if it goes with “city” then it’s local. That applies to not only wonders, but also buildings like amphitheater, etc...