Recent content by Sullla

The CivFanatics contingent continues to do amazing in the overall picking contest. Maybe I should start stealing all of your picks for the playoffs... :lol:

I had no idea that these games were being discussed at CivFanatics until someone mentioned it on my Discord. I'm glad that there's so much interest in these silly AI games! I hope that all of you are doing better than me this year in the picking contest. :lol:

I finished with a Cultural victory on Turn 241. My writeup for the game is located on my website, which I'll link here: http://www.sullla.com/Civ6/gotm06.html Thanks to everyone who reported their results; I've learned a lot from reading through some of the other games. :)

Hi there, nice series of AI games taking place here! I thought I'd mention for anyone interested that we're doing something similar over at Realms Beyond right now. We're running a similar tournament of Civ4 AI leaders which we call AI Survivor after the reality TV show. Here's a link to the...

Art assets. Creating the leaderhead models was the longest and most expensive aspect of the design process. In order to make multiple era leaderheads for each ruler, Firaxis would have had to cut civs and leaders from the game. (Making a new civ was extremely easy to do; the civs were limited by...

Given the hundreds of people voting on Metacritic, this actually is statistically significant. Civ4 scored on average about a full point higher in user voting, with a score of 8 compared to a score of 7 for Civ5. The older game's ratio of positive to negative reviews was also twice as good, 3.3...

You guys are all completely welcome to your own opinions about these games, but if you're going to reference my writings, you can at least quote them accurately. Making ad hominem attacks against me as a person isn't going to do anything to promote your point of view. The reason why you...

I mean no offense, but if this podcast is nothing more than recorded snippets of you and your friends playing Multiplayer... why in the world is it getting front page coverage at CivFanatics? That's not exactly breaking news.

I've kept an eye on Civ5 over the last two years, watching first the patches and then the expansion. It hasn't changed. All of the issues with the core mechanics are absolutely unaltered. Don't be fooled by the minor details on the surface: unit stat changes, social policy tweaks, and so on...

Civ5 is a game with brilliant ideas, implemented in very poor fashion. Elemental was more or less in the same situation. Here's hoping that Stardock can get things right the second time around with this expansion.

On its own merits, Civ5 would be an average game. Not great, not terrible. As the direct sequel to some of the best strategy games of all time, it's a disappointment. The game's mechanics are a major step backwards from Civ4, and there are core flaws in the design that I've explained ad nauseum...

While we're at it, let's look at the dates for the Civ5 patches. All info taken from the Patch Notes Thread at the 2K forums. - Civilization V: Sep 21 2010 game release - 1.0.0.17: Sep 23 2010 minor bug fixes - 1.0.0.20: Sep 27 2010 minor bug fixes - 1.0.0.20: Sep 30 2010 minor...

You can post this as many times as you want, but it still doesn't make it true. Civ4 doesn't play anything at all like Civ3. The former game has no cottages, no Great People production from cities, no religion, no corporations, no vassal states, no unit experience, corruption instead of...

This post is pretty much the answer to the original poster's question. While Civ2 was an amazing game in its day, it has aged rather poorly. For those who were too young or can't remember, Civ2 was the game that featured: * No borders * No culture * Identical civs (no unique...

It's also worth comparing some of the other forums here between Civ4/Civ5: - There are more monthly Hall of Fame submissions for Civ4 than Civ5. The Civ4 HoF forum is also considerably more active. - The Civ4 succession game forum has almost a dozen active games right now. The Civ5...