Recent content by ScorpionTDC

Do you send trade delegations or no? In my experiences, France wants you to be playing the espionage and diplomacy games ASAP. For ancient to medieval eras, that means sending delegations (and maybe even trade routes) to start gaining diplomatic access to people. I've actually had her praise me...

I actually don't mind Montezuma. I mean, he's pretty impossible to please, but I think that at least fits well with his focus on warmongering and guarantees he'll declare some wars to liven the game up some. I just wish he was better at said warring.

It's slightly better than made out to be, and can pull a cultural victory extraordinarily early..... but the lack of any real early game bonuses makes it pretty difficult. For King it's still viable (Currently the difficulty I play since I like having room to experiment and not play 100%...

I did this as Arabia, and it is hilariously overpowered if you can pull it off (which is an admittedly huge if). Germany only had two cities, but converted most of Greece, all of the Aztecs, and even one of my cities to Catholicism. Since I was suzerain of Yerevan, decided that it'd be in my...

Either Divine Spark or Religious Settlement, depending on the start and what kind of victory I'm aiming for. Usually lean towards Divine Spark, I'm almost always competing for a GS or a GW, at the very least. Though faster border expansion is nice too. Fertility Rites isn't bad, but Hanging...

I'm 90% sure Saladin abuses you even if another Civ spreads their religion to you. Making him like you is also irritating, since I have to start building holy sites despite not playing a religious game and having literally every other district to build. And forgot about Norway, yeah. Half the...

If I had to list each ideal victory and the reasons why I think that: America (Teddy Roosevelt) - Cultural, with some small buffs to home-continent domination to help you get there, but the film studio alone settles this. Not to mention the National Park bonuses and the fact that legacy...

LOVE: Catherine De'Medici- I don't think I've had a single game where we weren't BFFs from start to finish (okay, the one time I went around conquering people as Rome she knifed me, but I was already prepping to knife her, so props for doing it first. We good, we good) Her agenda is extremely...

Occasionally they don't DOW me and instead a nearby city state or another Civ who's close by as well. I think the only major exception is Catherine De'Medici, who seems to have extremely passive AI that focuses on infastructure and culture rather than actual conquest. Every game I find her in...

I love the idea of a Chateau adding housing. I also think it should be unlocked earlier, it comes WAY late for a unique tile improvement. Even Castles would be better, and sorta logical

Yes. Orange face is simply unfriendly, red is denounced, no face is neutral, green is friendly, blue-green is DOF, flags is allied

I actually disagree. I think maybe the moon landing could be tweaked in price, since it it's sort of an awkward placement, but as a whole? I like the heavy production cost. In CiV, it felt like a space victory really wasn't an achievement. Both it and diplomacy were victories that could easily...

It's usually city states, which I find less than ideal. On the other hand, I'd like to see this happen MORE with major Civs. Maybe it's because I'm only playing King difficulty, but the AI tends to be fairly deadlocked and struggles with taking cities from other civs. I'd definitely like to see...

They seem to. I have 100% gotten negative Diplo modifier for troops near borders when the only thing buy the Civ is a scout

Switch to strangic view before you start the AI's turn. The entire game moves significantly faster