Recent content by Tarew

Ahum, NO! To be honest I found the transition perfectly doable and I've only played Civ (ANY civ game) for a month. Noble became too easy, I struggled with Prince for about a week and now I'm starting to win my first games on it. Granted, I can't pull of warmonger victories yet but I'm sure...

It would be acceptable for sure. Still a hell of a lot better than the Spanish or Russian UU for example...it wouldn't be the best UU in the game anymore but to be honest I never had any trouble beating praetorians before (I tend to favor Protective leaders in multiplayer) so leaving them as is...

I think the current system makes perfect sense actually. How often do you see countries voluntarily giving up land in the real world, except when forced to by defeat in war? Almost never. Sure, in the past, colonies have traded hands as part of trade agreements occasionally but almost never land...

Eh yeah, except Huayna Capac is already ridiculously good as it is and there's really no reason to boost him any further.

Wow didn't know Shaka would be that popular but yeah he's definitely my favorite too. Contrary to quite a few other people I'm actually a big fan of Expansive. Also Ikhanda help with economy and Impi are arguably the best (early) pillage unit in the game. Besides Zulus just radiate coolness for...

The games I've played so far have nearly always been with an Expansive leader and quite a few of them I've won on Noble and Prince difficulties. When I don't play with Expansive leaders, unhealthiness becomes a serious thing to deal with. From what I heard this is even more so the case on higher...

Hmm yeah that would work apparently. Kind of a simplistic formula really, it'd be more fun if they added a little more depth to these aspects of the game. Actually, if they were to make a formula that doesn't use a percentage, maybe they could actually incorporate a victory condition around...

Hmm no forget that previous post. Judging from what it says on wiki, the life expectency rate is calculated based on average age of death. Whatever it was that I read previously must be dated. Interesting how quickly it has increased over the past two decades or so though. And my Khmer life...

Hmm I think I might have two things mixed up. Apparently life expectency is different from the average age of death within a country and is calculated differently as well. The life expectency wiki lists for the Netherlands is also significantly higher than what I read before so I assume I read...

Yeah I didn't get that radnom event this game, unfortunately. Have seen it once or twice in other games though. I did consider using the Babylonians (or Persians for that matter) but neither of those civs has an Expansive leader and I don't like unrestricted leaders so I just chose Khmer for...

Hmm, well apparently it's almost a crime for saying this now but no, I NEVER reload :p Probably because this IS a game and reloading takes all the fun out of it for me. If you can just try over and over again, for me the challenge is gone and I'd rather just restart (yes I am a perfectionist...

Yeah it seems quite a bit easier to get your approval rate up than it is to get the life expectency up. Still, the highest life expectency my opponents had was 59 (Joao I believe) and 14 years is quite a hugh difference. Also the highest I'd gotten before that was 62 (also to the future era) I...

I've been playing Civilization for about a month now and since it was getting quite easy to win on noble (with builder victories anyway, I'm still having a hard time winning domination wins, let alone conquest), I decided to move on to prince. Wasn't too long before I got a cultural win there...

Well there is an alternative I tried recently. It's a bit late game but it actually worked very well. It basically involves not chopping any forests from the start and farming the remaining tiles, then when you get scientific method, put forest preserves on every available tile. At one point I...

Yet another poll with a far too open question. It all depends on your gameplan. Philosophical is usually used in builder type victories so let's cover those. For a cultural victory, which is what philosophical is most useful for it's basically a toss-up between Elizabeth and Pericles. I'd say...