Recent content by teks

Nooo way. It's criminally inefficient. Converting 5 hammers to 1 of another resource is just never gonna fly early game.

But the dark ages prior to the renaissance was closely tied to the fall kf the Roman (Byzantine Empire) and the renaissance itself was nothing more then the revival of late Roman (Byzantine) culture and law. All of which was created by a Christian state. A christian state so advanced that we...

No one is arguing that deciding not to war would help the civ, but it still makes no sense from a foreign affairs standpoint. Country C is not pleased that you met with your enemy and ultimately decided not to join their war. They are upset the meeting even took place. Throughout history I...

Regarding the request to declare war. Thats a dialog between you and country A. Country B would only be aware if you accepted the deal and declared war. You could tell country B "Hey your enemy wanted me to kill you...but I didn't." But thats not really a compelling way to make friends. Far from...

I play with vassals on playing HWM. Without vassals I can just continuously expand by fighting weaker civs. Vassals force me into larger, more interesting wars with other major powers. As it was the expansion of any major power would put them at odds with another. Vassalage is a good way to...

I agree that wartime spying is a good thing and the resource cost balances it out well enough. People who don't use spies complain how its impossible to wage war in medieval times. I never found enemy spies to be much of a problem either. I just place a spy in every city and its normally enough...

South China. If a civ doesn't exist it's normally because their full history can't be fleshed out into a pack of unique units and buildings. I think thats the case for Khmer.

For a tight budget AMD is the better choice, otherwise Intel is. But that's just a generalization and honestly meaningless. They are just brands and a brand really has nothing to do with the performance of any one chip. Last I heard AMD made its way back into the high-end processor market with...

I was blessed with pattern recognition at a young age and it has allowed me to make this determination without hand-holding.

Oh, yeah I'm sure this was intentional *Rolls eyes* Skipping that bait trap, why did swordsmen get a buff anyway? Weren't spearmen in a bad enough spot?

Commercial hubs are nice in a few cities, but I can't see how they can possibly compete with an encampment beyond that. You gotta take the full package. You can't discount it all judt because you think 1 or 2 bonuses are lackluster. I never even mentioned this trade cog for example, but I did...

The name of the game is production, not research. Your early priority is to get those cities making more hammers and getting more people ASAP to keep up with scaling production costs. The current meta suggests the best way to do this is with trade centers which allow you to build traders, and...

Trade hubs scale. No other district does that. Traders get better and better as the game goes on, while district buildings remain the same.

Districts early on are a big investment and I think one of the counter points is that encampments don't offer much early game. Its awfully expensive for a single housing and 1 production from the barracks, so in order to be worth it it'd have to be for its other bonuses. If you wanna knight rush...

I'll try my take on the value of encampments again. I think some people are weighing encampments as the first district, and its not winning. Here the opportunity cost is the loss of an early great person or a new trade route. In both cases the encampment loses. The encampment doesn't even...