Recent content by sethryclaus

I just had a thought that I wanted to ask about - accelerated starts? Nobody ever plays them. I've tried them a couple of times and they really change the balance, making a whole lot of different wonders and civs good. It's actually really good value.

Love this concept. I'll have a go if I find time. Scout first for the era score, worker first if you want to go dark age into heroic? Not sure what is best here. I often buy my first scout. What about getting into a position to block the scout, attacking once with the warrior, fortifying...

I'm really enjoying the new modes but I also agree that they should at least alternate. I'm new to this and I don't really know how to finish games (learning a lot from everyone else) so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt. The other simple truth is that the ongoing patches are...

Settler was from Religious Settlements. Pretty sure I built slingers and spearmen with a shrine somewhere in there immediately after. I purchased a scout as soon as I could afford to, which saved me from a couple of barb invasions from the north. Sorry, didn't get notifications for some reason...

Sorry for posting on announce thread. I settled on T1 on the cows so that I would: preserve as many choppable tiles as possible get a +2 holy site without using a good tile (turned out to be +3) have a +3 harbour It's essentially a loss of 2 production until I get my first tile expansion...

There's a UI setting in interface options that will add player stats under their portraits on the top right. This helps a lot when comparing your progress to the AI's - helps give you an idea of how fast you're going. It also tells you who has gold that you can trade off them. But yea, there's...

TS = Theatre Square. I'm trying to learn the acronyms myself - some posts are pretty interpretive :) Thanks! Those are both super clear explanations; I appreciate it. I've also been building Pyramids and Kilwa but not rushing them, which seems to be something I should've been prioritising...

It sounds like you might need to tune your early game so that you have more room in your build orders. The biggest map I've played Civ6 on is standard so I don't know about 10/100 unless you're including early conquest in that. 2 campuses after your 3rd or 4th city would be my take, and I'd...

So, ahhh... I might've deleted my 1 save because it was getting messy and I was clicking too fast. I'm practicing better save hygiene now. I'm doing it with Korea now, which is what I originally intended but Cleopatra spawned right next to me and rolled me with her unique chariots and despite...

Chopping is what I was missing thanks. Presumably also standard game speed or slower too so that units have a chance to do something. I was reading the T100 thread last night and realised that chopping is still how the game is played. I stopped doing it after they patched it ages ago.

Just binged this fantastic thread :) Definitely nice to see what good is. I stopped chopping after they patched overflows but it sounds like it's still super powerful. Going to get back into it and see how it changes my play. What's the deal with the Amundsen stuff? It sounds like you're...

Pangaea, standard size, abundant resources, legendary start. I re-rolled my start a few times but nothing extreme - don't really need to with those settings :) With certain Civs that are sometimes considered not deity-worthy, I mess with map settings and later-era starts as there aren't really...

Being able to get double great general and oligarchy is just nuts. If you manage to get an early suzerain and levy, pretty sure that'd be a whole AI dead, if not 2. I had a warrior beat a swordsman with flanking bonuses. They should remove the movement bonus and possibly being able to upgrade...

Dammit - I just read the instructions properly and there's a save file to play from *facepalm* Well, I played 107 turns on a worse start and it was child's play. Double great general, oligarchy and 1 flanking unit is giving me 41 strength warriors. ez game is ez :)

Sweet, thanks all - sounds like I wasn't alone. I do enjoy a good walls/encampment on my rear border in a wide game. Someone on the "whats still wrong with Civ" thread mentioned how the Civ 5 AIs would suddenly buy out your bordering city states and go deep on you if you didn't maintain an...