Recent content by raxid

Nukes are a fun way for the lazy to end the game without building a navy. You can capitulate people with nukes alone.

Several years back I ran AI vs AI tournaments, in which 7 leaders were put on a map and they played 7 games (so everyone got every spot) and were assigned points based on how they finished (from 1st to 7th, some skew here because if you're not eliminated and you don't win it isn't always...

also to add to the "presentation" side of things. It helps us deity players who, for whatever reason, can't open your saves if you show 2-3 important screens. We can infer a lot from those in some cases. It helps with being able to leverage diplo/tech stuff (maybe being able to suggest...

Under those conditions, I'd be disappointed if i didn't pop 2 already.

First, I can't look at the save so only going off what i see in the screenies... 3) Lizzy actually seems to be a good target for a cur rush (hard to tell with no map). No need to fear redcoats, they aren't better than rifles vs cur/cav. 4) Lizzy already has literature and you don't have aeth...

i like tectonics as long as you're okay with lots of brown inland and lots of green near coasts (more realistic). if not you can stil get a fun game with 70% water setting (some of those games you still get started in loads of brown tho)

Also to add to pete's response, if you can't trade to significantly to help yourself (immediately), math means starting those great merchants a good 3-4 turns earlier. Like in my game, i couldn't trade at all (semi isolated) until later, not to mention when trading you need to restrict yourself...

I play on immortal and Deity and really at that level its not that useful to have a benchmark date that you're shooting for. If you play the diplo right (this isn't always possible of course), you're going to have the AIs in different religions, hating each other, and warring. This means their...

i know you're past this point, but i want to make it clear why 3w of capitol is a great site for second city. If corn is irrigated (which it absolutely should) then this city is immediately able to grow/build worker while the capitol can work other improved tiles to produce quick...

i agree, delaying chops for math has nearly no logical backup (unless really close to researching/trading for it). I also agree with the notion that if well managed, in the right situation, you can get away with "7 workers for 13 cities". Last TJM, has to be an acronym for national park in...

Even when creative, overlap can help greatly. A good example is lots of cottages, overlap can help work them all and mature them early. Of course, winning at immortal is easily possible without knowledge of this, so don't spend too much time worrying about it. edit: also i enjoy the way you...

So i decided to run a playthrough of this strat and compare it to a self teching of CS. First it should be noted that I got a very nice start with 2 bare gems (one on hill), wet rice, 3 bare grass hills, and spice/sugar bare next to river (good for cottaging!). I also played with Lizzy of...

A better "General Strategy" would be something like: 1) get the worker techs to improve the tiles around you (like agriculture/wheel/animal husbandr etc) 2) work towards the three major economic techs (currency/code of laws (courthouses/caste system)/monarchy (for hereditary rule) 3) finally...

Used to never use environmentalism until that OCC game as the dalia lama (i think) some time back (year, 2, 3?) where there were a ton of hills and windmills + environmentalism was vastly better than anything else.

its okay, you're right this time, code divers found this long ago.