Recent content by sterben

I've always disliked this comparison. I agree that CivIV Vanilla was worse than BTS; the game gradually got better and better until we had a really good game on our hands. The problem is, instead of building upon everything they did to improve vanilla Civ4 into BtS, they (Firaxis, or Jon)...

Yea, I realize I messed up and should have gotten some knights up when I saw the number of siege he had before the invastion, but I guess I was just curious how many others just quit after a debacle like this...

So, I had a game going the other day where I was Huayna Capac (random leader)/Monarch. I started out next to Shaka so I took him out pretty early and made his capital my GP farm (it had 3 clams, some agri tile (wheat iirc) and a lake surrounded by forest grasslands (which got chopped for some...

ftw! (10 chars)

I was actually playing around with this in the CvGameCoreDLL files a while back. The thing is, I was getting annoyed that the governor would automatically assign a spy whenever one was available and if I wasn't micromanaging enough to notice it I could go turns without changing it; most times I...

Good to know. I tried it once in a game and didn't really like it much either (didn't really seem to get much out of it), but I had read here that some people like to do it so was wondering what you thought of it. I think NEVER AGAIN answers me pretty well :P

Tacked on to ShredZ and UncleJJ's questions, I was wondering if you spent the time/eps to spread culture before stealing multiple techs, or if you bypassed that entirely.

I got monty as a random leader monarch game the other day. a jaguar with woodsman III and medic III is pretty awesome :P

I like Play Now. I might switch over to custom games after I start to get bored (not likely anytime soon), but right now, I enjoy doing random leaders on Big and Small and then trying to work with what I have. Granted, it's not quite as fun when I end up as Shaka and am isolated on an island...

Can't hurt with Mining Inc later on either!

I actually played out the game last night after your earlier comments. I didn't realize you were going to come back with much more in-depth advice, and I wish I had waited, but thank you very much nonetheless :P I actually did do a lot of what you suggested. I'm not sure why I got on the bank...

Good advice, Otaku, thanks. You are right about the resources; I just checked and indeed I'm not trading anything but for some furs. I know I had some trades early on (for happy resources at least, since I didn't need health for a while), but they must have been canceled and I didn't notice...

Sure, here's a few shots My Island My Island (with resources) Capital (wonderspammer) GP Farm Domestic Overview Foreign Relations Tech Situation

So, I'm doing a random leader standard/Monarch/Normal game where I ended up with Khmer. I'm at sort of a decision point and I figured I'd ask for some advice. I've been winning pretty consistently at Monarch with random leaders and CE, but this map seemed to cry out SE and while I've done well...

Check out this post/thread by futurehermit, it's pretty informative vis a vis Roosevelt. I followed it pretty well on Monarch a few games ago and I did indeed become a powerhouse: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=261510