Recent content by Ragincajun

Evincar: Actually, I happen to agree with Kilroy on nearly every aspect of this. I generally play one level below Deity for enjoyment, as I find the AI advantages(not cheats..advantages) at deity make the game less enjoyable for me. I very very rarely see the AI use a leader for anything...

I believe that victory condition was switched in one of the patches to 100, 000 instead of 80, 000. And if you don't want to wait another 20-30 turns to go from 80 to 100, wiping someone else's capitol off the map will often be enough to put them below half and end the game, you just have to...

If I understand what you are saying, this will solve your difficulty. Roads and railroads are considered either neutral or in someone's territory. Area that WAS someone else's territory but becomes yours(or neutral) still appears to be the previous owners territory, until the next turn...OR...

Stalker

Phlegm

Doh! Of course, a diplomatic modifier should probably be thrown in there also, your friends should certainly be discounting you more than folks that are furious with you!

Having played 116 and 117, I have to agree with the original point of this thread....the game is a LOT less fun with the tech trading the way it is now...not harder, just less fun. I do, however, think that the simplest way to fix that would be to assign minimum values to trades that would be...

Malaria

Anne Rice

Pink Floyd

Waltz

Dribble!

I haven't yet started playing the GotM, having had Civ3 a shorter period of time than most of you, thanks to residing in Central America. I would have played this month, but I thought I would play my first game on Emperor level on my own first, rather than having my first try at that level be on...

While I generally like playing archipelagos, I just had an interesting game that showed up a quirk in the Great Library. Starting on a nice 14 city landmass stretched east-west along the South polar region, playing on a large map with 11 civs at Emperor, I quickly gobbled up my territory. The...