Recent content by ShagVT

Why do the numbers add up to so much less than 100%?

So no fix for the 2-AI eternal war bug? :confused:

Well, it depends - if we are talking about turning a station or a 1-size city back into a settler, that is one thing. But to have a general purpose command to turn a major city into settlers again, and leave the entire city utterly unusable behind you? I'll listen to your history lesson...

The thing is that it's really hard to actually disband a city. Let's say there was an invasion in the USA and President Obama decided the best plan was to abandon Boston. What would that really take? Maybe your people could flee - but the whole infrastructure of the abandoned city would still...

It's an interesting idea. I've tried writing a response to this several times and I keep going back and forth between agreeing and disagreeing. Ultimately everybody can already build the OER themselves, but having it instantly means that you save all of those build turns and get the virtue...

Also, you'll notice that some tiles have what looks like fog. In the game it is called miasma. In the early game, your units will be damaged every turn they spend in the miasma and can be destroyed by it, even with no enemies around. As you advance in the game, there are different ways to...

If the game can run on iPad, there is only so sophisticated it can be. iPad doesn't allow you a whole lot of space or processor power. You shouldn't be too surprised by the price point.

And I like this idea. As technology advances, why not come up with more advanced ways to trade? If we can already imagine bitcoin today, or shipping good by air, or by internet, why not be able to do something like that in the future? I think this falls in the category of missed...

Ultimately I don't think the direction of trade should matter that much. Imagine trade happening between New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. They are both huge cities. But are the merchants in New York going to be willing to pay more for Nigerian goods simply because the good arrive in New York...

Gort made this chart a while back, comparing the initial release with the 1st patch (which we have right now): It's not that CNDRs become obsolete meaning useless. The problem is that if you want to have a "state-of-the-art" army (an army with the strongest troops) then you are better...

Technically, you could say they did.

For what it's worth - I do agree that the AI should be much improved. It is one of the primary things we are paying for in purchasing the game. All I'm saying is that AI is harder than most people think. There are things - like building a ton of carriers - which are foolish and I don't...

As a professional programmer, I can say for sure that it is not easy. It is hard to grasp how incredibly difficult it is to program things which for our minds are intuitively obvious. We see a canyon and instantly know our units are going to have to go single-file through it, and we...

Right, but unlike earlier Civ models, this pollution/unhealth does not affect anybody but you. You have no incentive to go to war with another country because their pollution is ruining the planet. All they can do is ruin things for themselves. And that applies for all of the affinities and...

Are you simply referring to building academies here, or is there another way that you can "buy" science?