Recent content by sargasm

Almost all those civs were in the last game. Are they really what made the game better? There's a lot of talk about the historical importance of various candidate civs but is anyone even claiming that they're less fun to play? I really don't mind what civilization they come up with as long...

The AI had a bad experience with resources in the last game and likes to stay safe inside its cities where it has lots of bonus hammers and happiness to keep it company.

In theory each breach of the agreement would make successive agreements more costly to you (e.g., insurance for breaking the deal in the form of a lump sum of gold up front, or lower and lower prices for whatever you have to offer). As your word becomes worth less and less, so will your...

Win a Domination victory by never having more than one military unit alive

This mod looks great but I haven't seen documentation this poor since the Civ 5 Civilopedia. Ambiguity right off the bat. I play Civ 4 in single and multiplayer; do I need to run the installer twice? Dear god I hope not but according to the installer I do. Oh, maybe I'll just install this as...

Anyone who wants to send me the money I spent on this game is welcome to do so. After all it's just money. In lieu of that you can send it to Africa if you want.

sounds like your military got demoralized by liberals criticizing your unjust war build more broadcast towers, and make sure they are set to fox news

So would you favor the addition of racial slurs to the game, as long as they were historically accurate? To do otherwise would be presumably rewriting history. In any case, it doesn't really matter whether people 5,000 years ago were bigoted -- the representation is simply inaccurate. The...

And people complained about ethnocentrism in Civ IV...

Gilgamesh also probably has a thousand units in every city, and is running Hereditary Rule.

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I guess I'll add myself to the club. After spending many turns building up an army and marching it across the continent to take out Genghis Khan, I declared war only to find out that Genghis is actually quite near me, and Mansa Musa, who I had open borders with, was the one I was preparing to...

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the way some of the Government civics seem to work. Hereditary Rule: The monarch's succession by his children makes it so that people are happier when the military is around? Representation: I understand the happiness bonus, but since when does...

Stalin didn't leverage his Industrious trait properly, at all. One of the biggest civs of the modern era, running State Property, and the only wonder he got was the Kremlin. Done properly, he could have gotten the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, Broadway, Hollywood, etc. A shame.

I like guided missiles. They cost substantially less than a Marine or Paratrooper, meaning you can amass a large amount of them from all your cities, then massacre the defending forces in the city you're attacking, and move your stack in to capture it with little to no damage, meaning they can...