Recent content by Ruberkaiser

The new social policies system is more thoughtful than you give credit for kingsfan, with all due respect. This discussion has been centred around asking why choosing religion should shut the path to science for you and vice-versa, but the reality is that the social policies tree does no such...

I'm not sure if anyone else has picked this up, but the screenshots over at The Escapist suggest that the Inca's "unique building", the terrace farm, may actually be a tile improvement. I refer to the screenshot of Pachacuti's leader page, where the icon for the farms is clearly the same style...

The Holy Roman Empire is not "German". It was centred for most of its duration in the region that since 1871 has been known as Germany. However, the Holy Roman Empire also included at various stages parts of numerous other European states, including northern Italy. Besides, although there is...

The Turks living in Thrace are European, because they are in Europe. Although I am aware I could be leading this thread into a discussion about semantics, terms like "European" and "Scandanavian" should be used to refer to geographical boundries, because that is all Europe and Scandanavia...

I agree with you entirely that the USA has earnt its place in Civ IV...but the American dream? Seriously...what are you talking about? I get that you love to talk about it a great deal, as well as your democracy (which is based heavily on the Roman model), but your cultural influence on the...