Recent content by Picky1999

I hope it's actually worth 30 bucks this time, or they have the common sense to price it appropriately... unlike Warlords, which I waited until last week to buy because of the initial...and unnecessary... high price. And I hope it doesn't require yet another patch...and resultant wait for...

I found the important resources harder to come by in Noble and the enemy cities much better defended...so well-defended at times that when I first made the switch I found warmaking to be tedious and nearly impossible until I developed good siege tactics.

I think you seriously need to consider getting alot more efficent at managing your time, your science, and your tech advances if you think jets and stealth come too late the game. It makes the more competitive in that youa ctually have to work at it to take advantage of the advantages these...

I had an interesting, similar situation with the Germans in my last (noble) game. There were 10 Civs, with me, Germany, Egypt, and the Greeks at the top of the feeding chain. Russia used-to be the top dog but Germany bordered them and had a natural rivalry with Russia that I constantly stoked...

I've never seen AI use a nuke, but then I haven't even seen them build any. they scramble to build SDI asap though. For a reversal, try what I did: Build Manhattan about the same time as the UN... build a bunch of nukes, then...and this only works if you control the UN...propose the...

...In case anyone is wondering how things turned out with my quandary on whether to attack Mansa to keep him from getting the spaceship and/or whether to continue my struggle to eliminate Catherine, the answer is things turned out very well.Extremely well. Fabulous, in fact. This is the...

Ok. I've got a a little Mansa scenario to offer. In a few hours I will return to game on the Europe map with 10 Civs, Noble. It's 1780 and I've been building up for a massive showdown with my military rival Catherine for the last century, who after all our battles I've knocked down to 5th...

I save often to save work from crashes (although it doesn't crash near as much since the last patch) and for slight time travel in two examples: 1. I reload from a save point if I lose a battle because I didn't bring enough troops. Often I'm one or two units away from taking an enemy city so...

..I was worried that the resource allotment might make the play unbalanced when I saw Russia's lead ballooning away in the late 1600's (just about the time oil comes into play...) but these fears were unfounded when England, Germany and the Greeks ganged up on her after she attacked. Big...

Interestingly, I am now at 1680 (Noble) and all ten Civs are still in existence, in their roughly historical geographic areas, with nearly equal capabilities (well...almost...there's some weaklings...) and lots of political give and take/alliance entanglements. We just came out of period of war...

Hats off for the fun map! This is just the sort of European history sim I was looking for. I've been having a blast playing as the English. Really good work here! My only caveat is that the small size map doesn't "play" like "small" on my weak older system...it plays like Standard or even...

I load up a transport with 4 gunships and then barrel it along the enemy's coast, sending each gunship 1-2 moves deep to pillage and then pulling each back to rest safe on the transport until next turn. This works surprising well to decimate the enemy's coastal developments, roads, mines, and...

1. Build settlers. 2. Move settler unit to another less populated city. Or send it to go settle. Or sleep. Or delete it.

I had alot of problems, but haven't done anything other than get the two official patches and follow some cache cleaning advice on this fine board, and now consider my game almost fine. Frankly, I found the directions to install Harkonnen's patch & the attendent problemsolving much much too...

When all else fails, practice what I call "ethnic cleansing": pull all your troops out of the city, either gift it to someone far away & weak or wait for it to flip, wait a turn, attack the city, raze it, and drop a new settler in it's place to start over on the same site. :)