Recent content by snoproblem

The Dire Straits song speaks of exploration, settlement, growth, and eventual blight/decline, but ends on a brighter note, implying enduring hope for the future. If a future game introduced the concept of Rust Belt style decline in some regions as an economic hazard,such a theme would...

New achievement - "Three Musketeers", earned by defeating an enemy unit with a 'musketeer' unit while in flanking bonus with two other 'musketeer' units. "ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL!" ;)

This has likely been covered, probably exhaustively, but I can't find the thread, so I started a new one. The choice for main theme is always a big deal when it comes to new versions of our favorite game. After a recent listen, I thought of a candidate... 'Telegraph Road' - Dire Straits...

A lot of you guys like a crowded map. My preference for quite some time now, is a huge map with six civs including me, and six city-states. One of the downsides - it seems to provoke city-spamming from some AI civs.

UPDATE: I've earned three more achievements since the hundreth - 'Silent No More', which is the victory achievement for William of Orange, 'Arab Trader', trading a luxury item earned in a city with an Arabian Bazaar, and 'Built in (Almost) A Day', which is building a Wonder in a city with three...

... finally. I've been stuck at ninety-nine achievements since last Christmas. I finally broke the slump with 'Capture Of Brielle'. It's the one gained when a Spanish coastal city is captured by a Dutch Sea Beggar. A clever nod to history, that one. BTW, Sea Beggars are now one of my...

Gajah Mada's main buff is called "Spice Islanders". When Indo settles the first time in a continent away from the one housing the capitol, they automatically receive 2 units of a unique Luxury Item - one of three spices unique to Indonesia. I'm looking for input from anybody who's played Gajah...

Playing further into the above game, I got gifted another Merchant of Venice. My cup runneth over. If I wasn't vying for a diplomatic victory, I would definitely get to puppeting CS's. :borg:

Tried my MOV on a city-state already puppeted by Venice, didn't work. I imagine the coding considers that territory Venetian turf and outside the influence of my third-party MOV. So I moved on to the nearest city-state from there, and got a TON of GP and influence points. OP? Maybe.

I was gifted a Merchant of Venice by a city state, and I'm anxious to put him to good use. :thumbsup: Can I use him to puppet a city-state that's already been puppeted by Venice? I'll report back, regardless.

I try to keep my sessions down to about 2 hours max, my laptop tends to heat up after a while, especially in the latter turns of a given game. Does anybody keep a turn cap on their games? I keep mine capped at 500 turns.

The game considers GP for luxury items a downgrade? I tend to think the opposite i.e. 'cash on the barrel'. For instance, I just renewed a deal with Harun Al Rashid where he offered 108 GP up front plus 4 GP per turn for 20 turns in return for my surplus unit of silver. Luxury...

I'm playing Gajah Mada in a game heavy with AI's that are strong in economics, the Netherlands among them. William I offered GP for Incense, but I noticed he had surplus wine - 3 units worth. I counter-offered to trade 1-for-1 my incense for his wine, and he refused! I wound up settling for...

I recently topped my rarest achievement with "Vote for Pedro " - 0.7% achievement rate (won by scoring a diplomatic victory as Pedro II of Brazil) . Love the Napoleon Dynamite reference. :)

I'm waiting a couple of years before buying Civ VI, to let a few updates and so forth build up. In the meantime (naturally) I'll be racking up the game hours on V.