Recent content by Pluto

Playing a Sid game as the French with standard size random map (appears to be archipeligo), max number of random civs, random barbs. When I discovered Mathematics, I popped a SGL. I've never considered what to do in this situation (safe to say, it's never happened to me before). I could...

Does anyone know exactly what Universal Sufferage does? I searched on this site and found somewhere that it makes one citizen that would be unhappy from war weariness content, but they didn't seem too sure about it. It just seems kind of weak for a 600 shield wonder. I know I could find out...

The enemy unit must pass from one controlled sqare to another. Then I think it's a matter of attack rating vs. defense rating to give the probability that a shot will hit, but I'm not exactly sure. It happens frequently with armies, in my experience.

Obviously, the exact turn that the AI reaches Philo varies, but you will usually not be able to get Code of Laws and then philo on a continents map much above Emperor. Even Emperor is uncertain. If you don't start with Alphabet, you can pretty much forget it. If you're a Seafaring civ and...

A few more things: You didn't need the lux slider at 10%. I lowered it to 0 and rushed a market in one of your size 12 cities that would riot. That alone increased your gpt by about 100. You have a lot of coastal fortresses. They are basically worthless. They only fire at enemy ships...

OK, just started to take a look at your save. The first thing I noticed is that you haven't built nearly enough workers and the ones you have aren't doing the proper things. At this point in the game there should never be unimproved tiles being worked in your main cities. Actually, all of...

Did you actually lose those emporer games that you tried, or did it just seem like you were behind and then you gave up? You may fall behind a bit early, especially if it is panagea. But if you manage your empire fairly well and be aggressive, you can easily catch up in most cases, especially...

A decent general rule has been stated to mine green and irrigate brown at the beginning of the game, but it is important to understand why. Brown tiles are plains. These tiles produce 1 food and 1 shield when being worked by a citizen in a city. Irrigation increases the food output of a...

Here it is under Monarchy... (after 9 turns of anarchy :mad: ) Not good. I lose 4 turns of research and about 100 gpt.

This is my empire under Republic... Why doesn't this picture show up?

Republic is much, much better than Monarchy in almost every case. The only situations that I can think of that Monarchy would be as good or better then Republic is if you are literally always at war for the entire game or if you're a Religious civ and for some reason get Monarchy first. Why...