Recent content by Taquitos

Only a company like Stardock could hire someone like Jon Shafer after what he did to Civilization. Look, for those of you that are fanboys of this kid: There was one thing, ONE THING that changed from Civilization 4-BTS and Civilization 5, and that was the lead developer, Jon shafer. 2k...

OMG nooo!!!! He is going to ruin YET ANOTHER turn-based strategy game. If he managed to completely destroy a 20 year old franchise that was at its peak of development and success so easy, as he did with Civilization, I wonder what he is going to do to an already mediocre game that is just...

I'm a huge fan of both games, pretty much all I've played in the past decade. However, you really can't compare both companies and their lastest releases. Blizzard's resources and amount of budget dedicated to Starcraft 2 were pretty much un-limited. They had to do one thing right this new...

I'm personally happy he left. I was never a fan of Jon since he got hired to lead Civ5. I mean, the kid is only 24 years old, fresh out of a below average university, and was given the job to LEAD a 20 year old franchise that was at its peak of development with Civ4-BTS?? I'm sorry, but I...

You are actually very right. After several deity games trying to figure out the AI thought process I concluded exactly what you said. They setup a victory condition and they DO NOT respond to your plans or progress towards a certain type of victory, specially when they are so far ahead and...

I do hope too that the developing team will actively and urgently patch and improve the bugs, mistakes, fallacies, miss-matches and imbalances of Civ5, so we can have another half decade of epic entertaiment. However, just like most of you, I'm not very confident that this will happen, nor...

Good strat man, smart. I'm currently going for my 3rd cultural, this time in emperor. I started as prince, then king thinking it was going to be hard, but was a breeze and actually fun. However, I never exceeded 3 cities the entire time, I razed some conquered and even returned some others...

I have recently won my second cultural, this time on King. First of all, no, don't build more cities, 3 is enough, 4 is pushing it. When you fond your cities thou you have to make sure that at least one of them is going to be founded in a terrain that offers the possibility of converting...

Same here. I find a bit of an insult really, having the end of their game be like this, a plastered picture, knowing how all the fans enjoyed the graphs, demographics, timeline, etc etc at the end of their games. It's not the fact that they were lazy, under-budgeted or rushed the game...

Actually I owe my last cultural victory to great artists. After winning in prince cultural I wanted to try King cultural and an aproach of faster cultural victory rather than slow methodical one. Meaning I wanted a more civ4-like-cultural victory. That been said, I used my capital to put...

Don't bother with diplomacy atm in Civ5. As many posters above me said, the diplomacy and deeper meaninful relationships and interactions with the AI are gone. Doesn't mather what are your efforts, the AI will hate you sooner or later. Let me repear again for the silly ones that wrote in...

thanks for the answers guys, it clarifies everything a bit more. It's good to know that I can force peace by nuking then. But, I'm afraid about what Silu said. If the AI in fact will have a little better judgement than what I experienced in terms of where and what to nuke, then I don't...

Hi, I'm new to the forums, currently playing at monarch level offline. I have two questions for the people that play above monarch difficulty, and its regarding the use of nukes. My last game had 6 civs remaining, I was in one continent and had the other 2 civs as vassals, and Alexander...