Recent content by Spartacus73

Just had a sort of accidental diplomacy win with Netherlands yesterday. Had a great start and was trucking along with science, culture, and military. Had wiped out Saladin early only because he was crowding and attacked me, but managed to keep good relations (neutral to friendly) with everyone...

I thought it was going to be "How do I stop...playing Civilization?"

Snow White: Happily alone in the woods with my seven dwarves/city states. Until provoked, and then my second Agenda kicks in: Borg: Prepare to be assimilated.

In general close is good, but I'll make a stretch for a strategic reason like resources, natural wonders, terrain (such as a bottle neck in the mountains that will prevent any civs entering into my region for a long time period), or location of neighbors and fighting forward settling and boxing...

I'm usually on Immortal+ and other civs are right there on tech. Maybe on easier difficulties where you're ahead it's not an issue?

So sea levels are done rising and are at 3.5 meters, and Madrid, which is on a 3m tile, is still there. Nothing is damaged, it doesn't even say it's flooded, so no impact. Is that because it's a city, or specifically an original capital city? Or are all cities immune to the sea level impact?

I only have a couple games in on GS so this is far from a comprehensive analysis, but I'm noticing that the balance between rising sea levels and flood barriers seems a little off. Namely, you are barely getting the tech to build the barriers by the time water is rising, and the cost of the...

What you are describing sounds more like what you would expect on a Scarce setting, which would be fine if you were looking for that kind of challenge. For Normal setting though maybe not so much. Hard to say without seeing your actual maps, but just taking what you are saying at face value.

I frequently play on Abundant resource settings and rarely ever have difficulty finding strategic resources. I probably should play on normal more just to throw in more of a variable for not having something, but if you really want to avoid the shortage the option is there.

That sounds like it would make conquest really difficult, if you couldn't even raze cities to eliminate loyalty pressure from another civ. It would basically just encourage/require everyone to grab as much land as possible as fast as possible with settlers, as well as attack new cities of other...

That's so true. You frequently can't just take 1 city to punish them or create a little buffer and then do Peace and move on. You have to quickly take out a big chunk of cities in the vicinity until you have enough Loyalty mass to sustain. Instead of a small military force to grind out one...

I'll admit that I will frequently Restart if I get a bad opening spot. That may not be kosher with purists, but I'm not trying to set any records or claiming to be able to do certain victories in x amount of turns. I'm playing both for fun and a challenge, so usually play on harder levels to...

There is always some luck with this. If you have a civ start really close to you, there's a good chance they'll drop their 1st, 2nd or 3rd city in your direction before you can get a settler out. If you're set on playing peacefully, that's going to be tough. Not impossible, but an uphill...

Thanks! That thread pretty much affirms my thoughts.

I could swear I’ve tried that before and it wouldn’t let me, but maybe I was doing something wrong. For people that use them, what are your thoughts? Is the cost worth it? Do you get them at a good time in the game or should they come earlier? Do you regularly use them in a way that has a...