Recent content by siroxo

This is similar to the strategy I use with tanks, except that I only use barrage on my attacking tanks, and never city-attack. I find that the first couple tanks usually die regardless: better to have as much splash-damage as possible. A couple of combat-promoted tanks are of course...

Nice idea. I'll have to try this jump to Civil Service using Stonehenge. Since I often go for Bronze Working early anyways, I should be able to chop rush Stonehenge.

Currently, I've been winning consistently on Monarch (nearly every game with a financial civ, and more than half with others). I've also won my share of Emperor games, but still lose more than I win. One thing I've noticed is that until I'm far enough ahead that I know I can win, I never...

Some people once tried to "stop with the Chuck Norris". Now we all know better.

One thing I like about the fat-cross radius is that you are forced to either waste squares or overlap. Thy could easily make it into a 5x5 square, which would tesselate, but that would remove some of the city placement strategy. Thus I don't think that fitting together is a good argument in...

This is minor but annoying. When I have stacks of units with multiple moves, like chariots or gunships, and I attack with the stack, I cannot attack again, because the game automatically tries to attack with the one that just attacked. Have to break up the stack to continue attacking. IIRC, it...

An option to choose from the 5 "major" areas (the ones corresponding to techs discoverable by Prophets, Scientists, Arists, Engineers, and Merchants) would be an intuitive way to make this similar to SMAC.

An option in the Hall of Fame to view only one-city challenge games (or non-OCC) would be useful, because usually even the best-played OCC games on prince or monarch are very low scoring. I'd like to have a way of remembering which entries on the HOF are OCC, so I can compare them.

Awesome script, thank you

In a sense, yes (Civ IV was released well past any beta-state of games I've betaed, but I see what you mean).To me this paying is not a problem; it's not like we have to pay for this round of "beta testing" and again for the released game. We just get a chance to be involved with the final...

When you can build tanks or modern armor, promote the units to barrage 2 or 3, stack up a few (depending, of course, on your target), and barrage away. This is great for fast attacks on cities 4 or 5 squares from your border, because artillery are so slow. You are bound to end up with a...

I have to go with the orignal civ "warrior" (iirc it was called "milita"?). I was only 8 or 9 when I got it, so my strategy was initially limited to building hoards of those. :)

One thought: When games are released with expectation to patch in the coming weeks and months, the gamers get a bigger chance to be involved in the final development of the game. In Civ IV, many of the things in the two major patches were due to suggestions by people on this very site. I'm...

The idea of a culture bomb doesn't seem all that rediculous. The term culture bomb isn't even included in the game as far as I've noticed, its just the inevitable thing people are going to call the effect in the game. Consider the cultural siginificance of Johann Strauss II, the city of Vienna...

On the contrary, in Civ, revolts (and then flips) occur when the population of the city is mainly of the ethnic group that is not in control of the state. If the population of a Russian city is primarily German, the city will eventually flip to being german, unless there are troops and such to...