Recent content by Psyringe

You just have to watch it closely - because if it gets the chance, one of the AIs may be strong enough to ... run away. ;D I totally agree with your assessment, btw. I'm on my third game now (first one was on standard map size, the others on a modded size between large and huge), and it's...

Well, as a mod creator, you kind of have to have confidence in your project. Otherwise, it would be rather difficult to spend all that time and effort on it. That said, I agree that the AI Growth mod looks pretty well done. But to answer your question (I haven't played the AI growth mod, but...

In case someone's interested, I played one full game with Thinker v4.8 and had quite a positive experience. I shared my impressions here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/very-positive-experience-with-the-thinker-mod.693656/

Hi! I haven't posted here for a long time, but I've been playing SMAC/SMAX on and off since they came out. Every few years I want to experience it again, because I think it has amazingly well thought-out mechanics and a fascinatingly implemented setting. However, similar to Planet's...

Hi! I'm enjoying Civ6 and would like to recreate a gigantic type of game that I enjoyed in previous Civ titles. This will require mods, but I seem to have trouble finding and/or deciding on the ones that fit this purpose best. So I'm asking for your recommendations - all suggestions are welcome...

Name three (of a complexity comparable to Civ4), please. To my knowledge, the most popular non-Civ TBS games of the 90s are: Alpha Centauri: The AI doesn't even understand half of the game and simply ignores lots of things. It never builds boreholes, has no grasp of the importance of...

Well - I agree with your statement that (1) feels more realistic, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy this style of play more. But, personally, I see no reason to not recognize and respect approach (2) as a valid method of strategizing as well. You're presenting the argument that (2) is...

This is correct. Soren explained in his Googletech talk why he felt the need to do this: Human players can see in which direction the enemy unit is moving into the fog, so they can make a good guess how to follow it. The AI cannot see the moving unit (they just don't see it anymore, meaning the...

Random events of course don't "average out", there are too few events in one game to facilitate that statistically. They would "average out" if the same number of people played tons of games against each other and tallied the results, but I doubt that that's feasible to the extent necessary...

There are two very different views of "good strategizing": 1. "Good strategizing includes to react appropriately to unforeseen events, utilizing the resources at hand." Players who focus on this approach tend to increase the randomness of their games by switching on huts and random events...

You obviously haven't read my rants about Civ5. :lol: ;)

Phew - lots of misinformation in this thread, let's see if I can clear it up. Civ4's AI does not know the location of hidden resources, nor does it see the full map (as has been claimed here). We tested this right after release because these rather obvious AI cheats were a big issue for many...

Aw c'mon, you can't tell me that you don't know that Financial is winning every "most favorite trait" poll in this forum, for years. ;) Examples are here, here and here, you can probably find lots more if you dig a bit deeper in the forum search. I think I even remember one poll where Financial...

Don't rely too much on player reviews either. The marketing departments are still one step ahead of you. Writing fake player reviews is common in the industry. You can hire whole companies who try to raise (or lower, if one wants to badmouth a competitor) a game's review score at popular...

I think I took that information from either the manual or the strategy guide, I haven't tested it myself. Your setup is an interesting way of doing that, I'll check that. Note: Due to health issues I may be away for a while in the near future. But even if I don't reply here, all posts will be...