Recent content by ras9929

First of TMIT, let me agree with almost everything you said, and the sentiment behind it Just wanted to quickly say that with the right leader and scholasticism, CS's can be almost as good of an investment. And I dislike the blocking concept even more, that the RAs themselves. The...

This is what I expected to see, but I'm pleased to say in the game I had last night, I snuck in a couple extra warriors early and kept 3 at home (or as settler/worker escorts), and I was pretty please to see that while my expansionist neighbor lined up his troops at my border, he avoided the...

Well I'm about to be the new Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. I'd been playing on my 4 year old Toshiba laptop where each turn takes the same amount of years in real life as they do in CiV. No more, the beast arrived last night Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz Quad Core overclocked to...

I go back and forth with your statement here. I'm guessing you are assuming the AI could see your entire map-space, and thus know this was your only source of iron. One thing I would caution here is remembering this is a city state. Even if you can assume, like a player, it can see all...

Skilldorado + Double Culture Ruin 2-City Start... I'm on a SP/15 turn pace for the first 10 with the 2 free unlocked next and just teched archeology. Guess that means to reach that 260 I need to do a SP/5.1 turn average which seems a little tough, even with 2 free + freedom tree +...

Being from the area near Cahokia, their inclusion actually make me excited, but perhaps Cahokia should really just be the capital of a Mississippian civilization. The cultures around the Mississippi were at least as influential as some others mentioned, and could have some nice UA/UB combos...

Playing around with Dynamic's worksheet Settling a Great Artist is worth about 4-5 turns as you approach a 250 turn games - This makes me want to think that using Meritocracy to get an early Great Artist (btw I did this is my trial game) is less of a good idea than using it to get a GE to...

I agree with most of what's been said here... Science is the key to domination.. One thing I would also advocate though is settling near resources who benefit from stables. I've only recently learned it, but stables are a production beast when you have 4 resources that benefit from them.

Started last night trying a "test game" just so I could figure what not to do. I don't play a lot of small continents, so I had a strategy in mind that I didn't yet know the whole. No map rerolling since it was a throw away game, but dang if I didn't get 4 cows, 2 clams, dyes, and...

Looks like the AI tweaks are helping (or in this case hurting me) the game. Played a couple games and here's some thoughts: Barbarians move with some purpose now, and def have started attacking my cities Both Enemies & Barbs seem to pack up a lot better. Just finished a game where the...

Not to jump too OT here, but part of this would be solved in my mind if 1) The amount of Lump Sum trade gold were significantly less than what the total of a GPT trade were worth. (NPV anyone?) 2) Resources exported were not available to export until the original trade deal expired. 3)...

I've done well with Persia, but I've sucked at trying to get a double culture ruin and I've played the games out to try to learn. After doing it this way, I think the big thing I'm missing for the rush is chopping. There's no way to gen the kind of hammers I need for units quickly enough with...

El Dorado + FoY start... Gold, Cow, Wheat... Thought I had a chance until no culture ruins..3 map ruins!\ Still going to get a good finish...

This is going to get silly low I think... 78 could be what 6 immortals at most?

Actually I was mistaken; UU replaces swordsmen Thought occurred to me.... Try to generate a forest world with Iroquois Forest = Good for Chopping, Fast for Iroquois Maybe start warrior spam the upgrade to mohawks