Recent content by The Apple

Why bother creating a worker first, if you're not going to be able to have him do anything once he's created? You say you didn't even start researching wheel and bronze working untill after he was already created, so what's he doing all that time, building mines?

Yeah, I've often found myself well into the middle ages before I bother learning calendar. Stonehenge is just too good of a wonder to make obsolete so soon, on the bright side, at least its a cheap wonder.

Great idea! That's one of my biggest beefs with the game, by the time I create an army powerfull enough to take down another civ, it's outdated by newer units.

I've been wondering about this too. Earlier I captured a city and almost all my tiles were given to a neighboring civ, even though it was at least 5 tiles away. I sent a great artist to the city and created a great work, and it didn't move the border at all.

The best way to get production out of an island city is specialists/great people. As long as you have a couple of sea resources and the appropriate buildings (temples to make priests, forge/factory to make engineers) an island city can be made productive. I just finished up a game earlier today...

And I'm not sure why. I'm really into the game during the ancient/middle ages, every decision seems so important, where to move that worker, which improvments to build, which buildings when, and timing it all to coincide with tech discoveries. But by the time I hit the classical age, I've...

Wow, you're right. I never even noticed! With so many wonders in the game, how could they omit one of the greatest wonders in human history? I mean the great wall is right up there with the pyramids as far as wonders go.. My only guess is that now that wonders show up on the map, there was no...

Please. :rolleyes:

I never recorded exactly which was better turn for turn, but your analysis mirrors my gut feeling. I always felt like I was able to get more done sooner using the worker chop strat. The only thing I'm still having difficulty with, is which techs I should research right after getting Brone...

What else do you miss? I muted speech after researching only a few techs, I know everyone raves about the quotes, but they drove me nuts.

Wall Street + Oxford + Academy + Bank + Market + Grocer + Library + University + Observatory + Laboratory + All Seven Monastaries + Bureaucracy = 570% research. Add to that a Financial civ with lots of cottages and you've got yourself one city which can practicly do all your science for you.

It just hit me that there's no victory condition for Civ's newest game concept: Religion. When Civ3 introduced us to culture, they showcased it with a new way to win, so why not religion? Then I tried to think up a relgious victory condition, but nothing seemed viable.. I mean, spreading your...

This is exactly how I've been starting the past few games, and I have to say I perfer it greatly over the generaly accepted way to start out your game. It's true that it makes you much weaker during the ancient age, but because of your land/resource advantage you quickly catch up in the middle...

So why is Mao in the game? He was just as terrible as Stalin, perhaps even more-so. From wikipedia:

I've seen it happen quite often in many of my cities, I have no idea what causes it. It seems that if I add a few specialists and then remove them it goes away.