Recent content by Rimpy

I love the Terra map, but I just wish that the AI could better adapt its strategy to it. The times that I have tried it, the AI neglects the new continent. I haven't tried it in G&K yet, so I'm not sure if it's improved or not. I haven't tried Frontiers either, maybe that captures some of the...

I completely agree. I love the game with 1UPT for combat and I wouldn't want to them to change it. But I really wish they would make an exception for movement though. It's so tedious to move an army across a continent or a sea. That's why I think a very high defense/combat penalty for stacked...

I'm not sure if you have ever played" Civilization: The Board Game" (which is actually a lot of fun), but they have a system like that. At the start, you can only stack two units, but as you research technologies, you gain the ability to stack more units, up to 6 if I recall correctly. I thought...

You could also accomplish the same thing by enabling debug mode, starting a game, and then revealing the map. You don't get to see all the resource placements (it only shows resources where you've explored), but you do get to see the general formation of the land. This is a little easier than...

FYI...The terra map actually adjusts the dimensions of the chosen map size so that it's not so crowded in the "Old World". Basically, a standard Terra map has the same dimensions as a large Continents map, a large Terra map has the same dimensions as a huge Continents map, etc. I think a few...

Like others have said, a game of Civ is such a long commitment that I don't feel guilty about rerolling until I get a start that I'm happy with. I usually reroll until I get a start near a river with some good resources nearby (or a good coastal start depending on the civ that I’m playing.) If I...

I use automated routes all the time. I know that they can be inefficient, but wagons are so cheap by mid-game that I don't mind building twice as many as I would if I micromanaged them instead. I automate all of them, except one or two that I will use to deliver food, tools, and lumber as...

I agree. The War of Independence is too nihilistic right now. It doesn't matter much who survives as long as you win. It would be nice to have a secondary goal to prove that you can rebuild your post-war economy and establish a viable new nation. It would probably be anticlimatic compared to the...

One thing I hope to see in Civ 5 is a better resource system. It's kind of stupid now that you can supply a 30 city civilization with one source of oil, or conversely have 5 sources of oil, but not be able to profit from them if you can only find 1 or 2 civs that need it. My preference is a...

The exact quote is "Lies, damn lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli is the first one to have said it, although it's often attributed to Mark Twain, who was really quoting Disraeli. I don't know where Will Rogers comes in, except that he's known for saying witty things too. Anyway, I...