Recent content by Salvor

If the issue is just speed of building, and money's no object, why not just rush-build (assuming you're in a cash-rush government)?

Just be careful not to accidentally upgrade any elites, or it'll turn them into veterans.

The Firaxis press release mentions Sumerians and Mayans as races. The Sumerian UU is the Enkidu Warrior. There's also mention of a Trebuchet unit, whether or not it's some new UU is unknown (wasn't it a Roman invention?) The press releas also mentions an Islamic Sultanate as a government...

Ahhh, good old Gustav II Adolphus. One of my all-time faves. I'm sure he was just shaking in his boots when he heard the mighty empire of San Marino was out for his blood.

Tassadar, I think they expected to find more than one person. And without excessive bombing, it should be possible to capture a city with its marketplace, harbor, and some other non-cultural improvements intact. Your Berlin analogy is invalid because Berlin was bombed extremely heavily in...

I agree that the game is quite playable, generally the inherited unhappiness is nothing a temple, cathedral, and marketplace can't fix. I do think, though, that it's a bit excessive, and the game would be better if it were reduced the ways I described above. I'm not holding my breath, and will...

This is just my opinion, but I think we have several things going on here, and it's possible that some people are misinterpreting what they observe. I haven't seen the savegames of everyone who's posted here, and a lot of this is just conjecture so I might be way off, but it appears to me...

Objective, because you didn't have any preconceived notions about it, like some people who think "It must be great, Sid Meier's name is on it"? Never played any Civ games, but bought it because of Sid? Were you expecting something like Roller Coaster Tycoon? It was inferior to your vast...

It probably happened to all the Middle-Eastern civs, but not the European or any other groups. Those are separate graphics, with separate icons and separate textures.

You could always go back to the editor and give the "reduce corruption" attribute to some other small wonder, like the heroic epic or something. Then you could build it regardless of how many cities you have (but you'd have to have a victorious army unless you edit that too).

Did you change the optimal number of cities in the editor? You can't build the FP until you have half the optimal number of cities.

Here's more help (I hope): 1) Read what No.Dice says about this one. You get one happy per city for each type of luxury in your trade network. If you have more than one of the same type, you can trade it to another civ for cash, tech, maps, peace treaties, whatever. In addition to being...

Of course there's a strategy for minimizing the effect of unhappy citizens. First, don't let the opponent whip/draft a size 12 city down to 1. I never do. Even under communism, this would take several turns. Don't give him the time to do it. Don't move within 2 squares of the city until...

I wanna build the Ivory Tower Wonder!!!

Actually I did start to play it out. My island is pretty small, and I squeezed in about a half-dozen cities to take advantage of any spot where I could get at least 2 coastal or game tiles and 2 forest or hill tiles within its range (especially if I don't need a temple to reach them). It...