Recent content by sutasafaia

I do scout, I just don't tend to leave my starting continent. I don't get any kind of sea power for a good long time, if ever, since my target city locations are always near mountains with as many usable tiles as possible. With the whole trade route thing I may go for a coastal city but I...

Is culture still viable for a turtle? I only ask because it looks like the way to win with culture games now is with cultural pressure which seems to rely a lot on you getting out and basically doing as much exploration as possible. Don't misunderstand, I do my share of exploring even as a...

I am the mighty turtle, I do not move very fast but I shall win...eventually. Maybe. Anyway, with the release of a new Civ expansion comes new questions, or I suppose they are actually old questions but asked again with new factors needing to be addressed. For GNK I was the mighty turtle...

Well, been playing them all still, trying to get my feet wet, and something occurred to me that may end up making a difference as to which civ I should be focusing on. I turtle...a lot. I was wondering why my SV's were never very early and realized that I only normally have 3-4 other civs met...

I do move my settler, although I try to limit myself to 2-3 turns at most, otherwise I start to feel like I'm falling behind a little too much. Of course you can also get incredibly unlucky and have your settler sniped by barbarians, I had that happen once back when I first started.

I think the biggest thing to look at is that Inca can always (post construction at least) have good production without sacrificing food, at least for the most part. Of course that's still dependent on how many hills you have, but hills are vastly easier to find than mountains so you would at...

Thanks for the nice info. I know it's silly to be so torn about something like this but...what can I do I guess? I've still been trying both out, and I've found something that makes me dislike Inca somewhat. I played a couple multiplayer games as Inca now and both games I ended up with...

It seems this thread has basically turned into Inca vs Babylon, so let's just go with that I guess. Anyway, I see nothing to do except give a tiny guilty bump since I'm on the second page and doubt anybody will ever see this otherwise... Don't hurt me =/ just shoo me off with a squirt bottle...

Sorry for the double post, figured I would do a small update since I've been playing around with both of them still, trying to get into some kind of groove. I've been trying to expand past my normal 1-2 city comfort zone, so far going up to 4 since Tradition gives bonuses to 4 cities. I...

Messed around with Korea for a while, not sure I enjoy them honestly. Too dependent on specialists and you sometimes just can't get the food to field them all no matter how hard you try, depending on city placement. Think I'm leaning towards Babylon or Inca now, just not sure which. I love...

Been a while, figure I'll finally come back and poke a little again. So far it looks like I'm going to mess around with Inca, Korea, or Babylon. Babylon seems to get the biggest tech lead, and the walls/archers are great for somebody jumping me early. The scientists can take up a fair...

Because I'm very bad at offensive combat in this game :blush: I can normally hold other players off of my cities for very long periods of time, I'm fine at cycling units and playing a defensive wall, they just seem to overwhelm me eventually when they can suddenly have another 15-20 units pop...

Once again it appears I need to poke the forum for some advice. I've been trying ro debate with myself since my last thread, working with mostly Korea and Babylon trying to go for tall science victories, and even in multiplayer this seems doable if you have a good enough defense. However...

For a tall empire I would say Korea. However, for an OCC, I would say Babylon. You want more than one city to take advantage of the bonus Korea gets with specialists if you want it to outweigh the bonuses of all those great scientists.

That doesn't change the fact that those things take up a lot of space though. I know Babylon (or maybe Korea) is considered the best for science victories but I sometimes wonder if just getting the science bonus is really best for overall play. That is a lot of spaces taken up by things that...