Recent content by planetfall

Sometimes experienced players lose the excitement of playing and every game seems the same. Here are some initial settings I found that make an interesting game: Difficulty: diety [or lower if you need it] Map: continents and islands Resources: standard [or sparse for more conflict] Natural...

ok, ty

I was barely surviving an aggressive warmongering AI, Brazil, and did not see all that was happening. I selected a religion and had a few cities with that religion and then noticed because of apostle spawn by Brazil I only had a single city of my religion. It was weak with only a holy site and...

I've noticed a similar pattern in thinking about my games and realized the other day I have certain milestones, or major conceptions, during the game. What are yours? For me this is the pattern: [turn numbers are approximate] Turns 1 to 30... can I play this map? 30 to 60... can I survive...

Are there any setting choices in game setup screen for continents or continents and islands that maximize the number of rivers?

thank you

Are there any mods or tweaks that allow multiple beliefs, so two+ civs can have the same belief? If we can have multiple units why not civs have multiple beliefs and not have a monopoly on a certain belief? For example Russia with eastern orthodox and Teddy with protestant could both build...

Thank you for the details. I'll give barbs another try.

Forgot to ask, if enable barbs, do you also enable clans? Discuss why please.

A separate post had a comment that it is a mistake not to enable barbs. I've always turned them off as they seemed too aggressive. The suggestion is the game can be easier if play with barbs. I'm trying to learn, but not catching the benefit of enabling barbs and handling barbs. I've tried...

7 seas is misnamed land mass. It's not seas but a huge wiggly land mass. There is no need to use navy at all. Not a map I'll play. I expected huge seas not huge land mass. Can't even sail above or below the lands.

I'll try seven seas. I think I tried it once and didn't care for it, but can't remember. I normally have high seas and love having gameplay with naval/air/army active units. What is really strange, and I don't know if it is a deity thing, is that air bombardment is about 1/3 to 1/2 strength...

Hmmm, don't know if makes much difference. The jump from immortal to diety seems larger than any other difficulty jumps. I'm fighting on first real diety game. I "lucked out" with a continent to myself, but so far behind it's hard to accomplish anything. It's like the game changed from very...

Immortal has gotten boring, so ready to try diety again. The last couple of times I simply did not survive long. I play with domination and science victory options and high seas. Looking for advice on startup options: Map type Choice is between continents OR continents and islands. Which is an...

Just for others. The reason Victor doesn't work is he's too weak. He needs 3 to 4 boosts to be most effective and even then he's only good vs 1 unit. Now look at Moksha, only 2 boosts and heals as many units as you can pack into a city border 100%. What this means for gameplay is you can sucker...