Recent content by robcheng

Finally, one good reason for going with Steam!!! :)

Are they fixing the exploit that let's you trade per-turn things for a lump of gold (and then declare war, cancelling all the per-turn trades)

I got jumped by Alexander a dozen or so turns after I stole a city-state he was about to conquer, and I was really in no shape to fight since I had been focusing on expansion and not military. Before giving up, I thought I would reload from one turn prior to see if I could trade for enough gold...

Yes, and I wonder if the game pace isn't the fundamental reason a lot of people aren't taking to Civ5 the way they did to earlier versions (personally I didn't feel Civ2/3 were particularly slow compared to Civ4...it feels like Civ5 has the slowest pace of all of them)

Um...140 years is just a little more than a century? How many years does it take before it get beyond a 'little more'? (yes, I'm playing on an underpowered machine so I have to waste my time doing something while I wait for it to load...) ;)

Copied from the 2K boards: Go to "My Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\" and open usersettings.ini in Notepad. About 15 lines down you will find "SkipIntroVideo = 0". Make this value 1 (to skip the intro movie).

huh huh...yeah...huh huh...yeah, hexagons, yeah...huh huh....right. #unwatchable

Well, Monaco had less than a dozen citizens in their entire country, so that's plenty of gold for each! :p

Was this the first time anyone has mentioned a limit on the total number of units you can have in the game? (game difficulty factor + number of cities factor + pop factor). It was certainly news to me!

Great work Arioch! One typo spotted: It's known whether it will require Horses or Ivory. << should probably be "It's NOT known" http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_ancient_units.html#war_elephant

I love it. But the image doesn't show the "Gatling gun arms" mentioned in the civpedia article. MUST. HAVE. GATLING. GUN. ARMS. :)

The article on gold mentions trade routes to your capital, but not foreign trade routes. Is it safe to assume foreign trade routes are out?

I don't suppose this would work under VMWare Fusion on a Mac?

There's also the question of bluster and bluffing -- it might be more interesting to have to learn that a leader A only gives you one polite warning before declaring war, while leader B tends not to follow up on threats at all (especially if these leader characteristics could change from game to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_GQYI9brGs