Recent content by sock ruh tease

Definitely agree with those who have said to use spies as diplomats. If you have excess salt, you can even trade salt for votes. When the civ leaders taste your delicious salt they will think twice about banning it. :mwaha: Move the diplomats around after the trade is done - it won't...

If we're talking about tough early games/great late games I would have to personally say: Diplomatic: Venice Cultural: Brazil Science: Korea Domination: Venice Wait... what? Bearing in mind that I typically play on King/Emperor, Venetian Domination is totally possible for me late-game...

If you select a sleeping unit, and hold alt while clicking the wake up button, it will wake all units of that type.

How Romantic: As China, control Great Generals named Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang. Marco!: As Venice, have a Merchant of Venice named Marco Polo and two other MoVs embarked in water tiles next to each other. Busy Engineer: Finish the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower in two different cities...

Autocracy, although Arachnofiend's post is making me give it a second look.

In my experience, the AI will propose to embargo a Civ if they are at war with that Civ when it comes time to make the proposal. It doesn't always happen, but it's often enough to be reliable. So if I want to have a civ embargoed, I'll pay the host or whoever is likely to be able to make a...

The idea is that your influence with each city-state always pulls toward a "resting point". That point by default is 0. No matter how much you increase influence (with gifts/quests) or decrease it (by trespassing/demanding tribute) it will reset back to 0 over time. Pledge to Protect boosts...

ftfy.

My most isolated start as Venice involved only having one CS on my continent. I focused on getting to Optics to puppet the CS and have it send food to my capital (the food from an internal trade route is a lot higher than allying a maritime CS), then working on exploration and getting to...

I was recently playing a King game where Napoleon was gobbling up our neighbors and I was the only one with my capital (Venice). Luckily as soon as Enrico's diplomat in Paris discovered that Napoleon was plotting against me, I was able to escape to Alpha Centauri. :trophy: I think the only way...

I agree that constant 30 influence is pretty strong (makes it easier to ally with bribes, too). I don't think it is broken though. The AI seems to demand tribute from city-states often enough that protecting them all can be risky for diplomacy. If you keep taking diplo hits telling AIs "You will...

In my experience the hammer cost of World's Fair, International Games and ISS seems to be a function of the number of civs in a game. I definitely notice it takes longer on my standard games than it does on duel or tiny.

Ah, cool.

Mt. Kilimanjaro gives that promotion to a unit that moves next to it. I think it has to be in your borders too.

I find navies and air forces to be very powerful in the mid to late game. A city with the right +XP buildings can crank out Frigates with a 3-tile range. That is when I find navies to start being really powerful for taking coastal or slightly-inland enemy cities (because you can avoid...