Recent content by Skulker

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Anyone know if there has been any consideration given by Firaxis to increasing ship movement rates? On big maps, ships take forever to go from place to place. IMHO, this takes a lot out of game play and does not simulate reality well. A LOT of problems, both bugs and game play issues...

I voted WW2 because it was quite literally the end of the age of the great european empires. It also ushered in the age of nuclear mutual assured destruction which, thankfully, has prohibited all out war among the largest powers on the planet. It also paved the way for a peacefully united...

Why does everyone keep puting the UK on their list? They are at best a has been, second rate power. Not to be nasty or anything, it's just that Great Britain without her empire isn't so great. Now, her children, on the other hand.... Let me take a crak at this list: US - military &...

Expansion into space isn't currently considered a viable option because of the enormous expense of getting stuff into space. Sure, you could set up a colony on Mars that would quickly become materially self-sustaining, but you still have to get the people there. And that means lots of heavy...

We've managed to evolve the means to achieve an explosive population growth. (Breeding is really what it's all about.) This has happened in the past in nature and has been documented when new species are introduced to ecosystems and on newly created volcanic islands. It can also easily be...

Two Things: 1. To have this discussion, you have to be getting into the game WAY too much. 2. That said, the first time I encountered an enemy army in the game spooked me a bit. I'd never had one, never seen one, didn't know what they were really capable of... So I killed it.

By saving and reloading, you reduce the game to a mere test of strategy under known and predicted conditions :sleep: . A good strategy is ROBUST :mutant: , that is one capable of dealing effectively with more-or-less random events (and random placing of resources). The latter is much more a...

I've been playing the Chinese (militaristic) and been at war more or less continuously since I got Iron Working and I've only gotten one Leader. I used him to make an army and since then I've had literally dozens of vicotries by elite units and no more leaders. I even built the Heroic epic and...

This thread is fantastik. I've been able to use a number things posted here to great effect. I've used the Size Six and workers- as-decoys so far and when the situation calls for real nastiness I'll definitely use the Right of Passage agreement with my workers altering the AI's landscape to my...

I used to be annoyed and alarmed when, in the expansion phase of the game, the AI built cities in open areas inside my empire. I quickly found (as everyone probably has) that if I paid proper attention to my cultural improvements, I would eventually absorb those cities. What I've recently...

I would never turn down a city no matter how bad it is. At the very least you can rush build the cultural improvements and use it to A. win over more enemy cities B. increase your empire's culture production. Not to mention the strategic and scoring issues...

I've never actually mobilized for war. I don't want to take the hit in culture and research and I suspect mobilization aggravates unrest. To me, mobilization is only necessary if you find yourself in a war for which you haven't prepared well. It's relegated to a measure of...

As soon as humanly possible, I become a democracy. From that point on, I war as necessary. You just have to make sure your luxury and happiness city improvements are all lined up and you prepare well enough (especially alliances) that you don't get into a long drawn out conflict. I can't...