Recent content by The Machine

specifically, enemy spies. is there any way preent the ai from being able to steal technologies, or conduct spying missions in your cities?

are the techs u get when starting the game completely random, or is there some sort of pattern? and if so what is it?

i also recommend economics, so u can biuld adam smith tc. also build pyramids and sun tzu, as these pay for the city improvements, so u dont have to.

i have never seen one land mass on a pangaea map, and i find it annoying if im on the small continent as i dont believe in having a big navy, as they can no longer attack coastal cities and the bombardment ability is a waste of space on the boats. it must be firaxis trying to make the navies...

i tend not to bother with war early on, i establish a huge industrial base so that i can get ahead in the tech race, so i get to tanks and howitzers(which ignore city walls) well before anyone else.

In the ptw manual, it says that eaach civ has a preferred government, and a shunned government. i presume that this applies to which governments the computer controlled civs prefer to use, but does it have any effect when a human player is using that government, and if not, whats the point?