Recent content by stannis

Surely the "Aristocrats" are even less believable than "Artists"(although I like the idea of sending a colony whose members focus on preserving and developing human culture, even if that's impractical). Aristocrats in the 27th century? Who somehow promote trade and wealth? Really?

The only point you made with much relevance is about the shoddy AI. More than anything, that's what Firaxis needs to work on.

I see the ARC as more like a cyberpunk mega-corporation gone very Orwellian. Neo-feudal capitalist police state. The all-seeing eye symbol is the icing on the cake. I can see myself being very evil when I play as them. :smoke:

Scramble for Africa, no doubt about it. The geograhpically-narrow and military focus of the ACW does not interest me much. There are only two new scenarios. Your thread title should be "Which scenario are you MORE excited about?".

Well, could you tell us why you didn't like it?

Bump! I would like to echo Depravo's echo of my request. :yup:

Maya, Aztecs and Inca prefer Christianity? Come on. Why not just set them to totally random? Is it possible to edit the files to do this?

Hmm. I have not played G&K yet, but I've been reading people's experiences of it. I think this decline of religious importance towards the late game sounds neither fun nor realistic. You are left with lots of fairly useless faith points which only seem to be good for buying Great People...

My kingdom for some punctuation! Or even just an extra full stop somewhere in the middle!

I've been reading good things about this scenario on the forum, and seeing as I can't play G&K until I return to my homeland at the end of the month, I would be very grateful if someone could post some screenshots of their experiences with it. How about the win conditions - I've read there are a...

Aargh. I missed the stream and can't re-watch it for some reason. Might be because I'm using the internet in China, which is a pain at the best of times. @Nokmirt: living in China is good and bad, like anywhere else. I live in the centre of the country, so it's poorer and less developed (but...

Wicca is not a "Celtic" religion, it's a quite modern invention which like a lot of neo-paganism has little to do with the original forms of the "pagan" faiths. For one thing, I doubt that modern druids carry out human sacrifices.

It's also good that you can't spam the map with spy units. Each civ only gets a limited number of spies - far less than the number of cities on the map - meaning that the player must be much more careful and tactical when deciding what to do with them. It's a superior system. But hey... haters...

I would like to second your "woohoo", Calouste. Those particular city-state quests always reminded me of the "kill this bad guy" quests you're offered in some dingy pub in an RPG, they seemed unsuited to a Civ game.

At least it tells us a little bit more about the Rome and Renaissance scenarios.