Recent content by ShadedSkies

BUG: Started a game as Byzantium and Cataphracts now unlock at Trade (Horsemen and War elephants too). The rest of the tree seems fine.

While I don't have any trouble with any AI early on, at least on Deity the ones with cheap UUs are the worst around the midgame because they can (and will) purchase that unit on every single turn. So even if you kill their units on every turn they'll just keep coming, occupying tiles and easily...

Quickly and a lot. The faster/more, the better, and make sure the cities grow too. Happiness isn't an issue if you pursue luxuries, know what to build and pick progress. In my current game I was able to get 100% happiness with 10 sizeable cities on turn 147 epic deity (https://ibb.co/FmcLt6w)...

"Good city locations" to me just means connecting my monopoly and then settling cities as close as possible so I can form a quick road/trade network, leaving enough room to put down villages between each one. Even on Deity the AI's doomsday armies have problems breaking into city clusters. You...

Continents, epic, 10 civs, ruins on, and lately I've been turning off vassalisation and tech trading because I've seen a bunch of weird things regarding those. Barb spawning is inconsistent, trying to roll over another civ is inconsistent even if you rush iron workings or UUs, and I've found...

I only play Deity/random civ, almost always pick progress and usually win. Even with warmongers like the Huns or Mongolia I go progress. The long-term benefits and scalers are pretty much your only chance to keep up with whoever decides to snowball now that the AI gets bonuses with each new era...

On the flipside I've been getting the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and Petra in most games on Deity despite taking my time. I also spawned next to a Hiawatha who took forever to grab his first policy (I wanted to see if he was going authority or not), like over 30 turns on epic. Most wonders are...

There are several past versions of Vox Populi where happiness was much more lenient. You can try to dig up some of them. I only saved one installer from 7-17-3 which is quite outdated by now (still a great version though)

Generic horse units are pretty bad, yes. Use Scouts for harassment and Spear/Swordsmen for war. Songhai and Spain UU's can roll over anything in their path though.

Build 4 Warriors. Upgrade to Hoplites. Demand like 160 culture from a nearby city state and then go conquer your entire continent.

You can always annex and starve. Buildings already in place still give all their yields and at 1 pop you only get 1 local unhappiness, as opposed to a useless growing puppet that gives lots of unhappiness, almost no yields, sub-optimal build orders, terrible tile management and requires...

*sigh* We all do, Kabul. We all do.

Well no wonder the AI is underperforming... Ramesses didn't even settle his capital.

The tech tree is sooo good. Every single technology provides something (and usually several things) of value, while furthering your progress towards something else that's even better. Every route through the tree has its own uniqe benefits and the amount of strategic depth and variety this...

Forest luxuries no longer require bronze working to chop! Also settling on forest/jungle no longer gives free production before bronze working, bummer.