Recent content by potto

hmm dont want to start a boring city analysis thread but I think that is a tad simplistic, London was a hotbed of political, scientific and economic thought for centuries, it has always been a place where great thinkers from around the world found sancturary. The industrial revolution was just a...

yes that is why i always randomise as much as possible, never choose a civ or opponents. It means that each game, even if you plough through with one strategy you`ll usually find that you hav eto tweak it in some way

the rush method does require you to beeline towards bronze working and to have the resource available which is not guaranteed, so if you manage these why not take advantage? That is what this game is about, taking advantage of your situation. I tried the rush method with some civ specialised...

I must say that I really like these events. It gives each game a lower-level personality that seemed to be missing before, rather than the personailty deriving just from the leaders it now comes from your civilisation too.

Of course the other side of the arguement is that corporations are parasitic creatures that use force to extract wealth. Corporations are funded by shareholders not governement and that is where the money flows, they also require constant expansion to remain attractive to shareholders. They are...

How do you manage to boost your research when doing the buddhist > Hinduism route, after buddhism is founded I can never get Hunduism quickly enough even at 100% research.

looks like it, just ran all the way over to the shop just before closing time only to be told by a stern looking assitant (different to the one i spoke to earlier) saying that there was no was I could buy it today, even the staff arent allowed to and that he would have words with the assistant...

Just went into Game in London this morning and they had 80 in the stock room but can not sell them until tomorrow! Grrrr They said if i turn up just before closing at 18:30 tonight then they`ll let me buy a copy then :D

I understand what you mean. When I first played Civ IV I felt that it was too much of a rush with a disconnection between the tech tree and the world you were playing on... a click and forget excercise. I love the exploratory initial stages of the game, the sense of history, coming across new...

I think the only way forward is the complete link up of the lands geography with the growth and form of a city and the battles that take place creating very intensely detailed experiences on each game. Also the tech tree idea needs a major overhaul as it has now just become a click and forget...

yes that is how colonies worked in the original Civ, you built a colony on a resource outside of your boundaries to hook up to that resource. However if another civ came along and built a city near to that colony then the colony would disappear as it was now inside the cultural borders of a civ...

but you fail to see that the Chinese will be just playing in an anglo-centric world. Started by Renaissance Europe accelerated by the Brtish Empire and fine tuned by the Americans, this is the modern world in which all countries now exist. There are cultural varieties but these are merely...

I certainly picked up on this.... Have you improved forts? <alexman> Yes, forts are GREATLY improved. Forts act like cities in many ways. <alexman> So you can base aircraft in them, you can enter them with ships, and you can paradrop from them <alexman> You can even use them to connect...

yes in the next expansion thread I proposed something similar that was based on the old Civ ability to create trading posts? Where you could take control of resources outside of your cultural boundary. However I felt that this feature was let down by the rule that if it fell into a rivals...

to all the 2d snobs out there, dont you get it, this is a game based on human survival and growth on a planet which is by its very nature a 3d experience, I look forward to CIV improvements in tying up the gameplay and strategies ever more with the virtual landscape created.