Recent content by Thoma

Very long hiatus, first time playing Vox Populi .. which means that everything I vaguely remember, isn't helpful at all. In other words: I have a lot of fun. Two questions: Maybe I've just completely forgotten how to do it, or maybe there is a mod with the following function: When a...

Gameplay effects: How to balance the AI versus human players? It's my impression that the changes so far have improved considerably the balance among features; some that were formerly underwhelming are now viable alternatives depending on strategy or circumstances while omnipotent outliers...

A changelog would seriously help in the bug-hunting and balance-finding effort. I quite often don't know if a difference to the regular Civ is intended to work that way or an (un)fortunate side-effect. It would also help to avoid collisions in features between the core mods and any additional ones.

I had met Shaka, but Attila had not. I started a war against the Huns to help a city state, and Shaka didn't care. That's what you wanted to achieve, correct? It makes sense, anyway.

Excuse me? Houston, elaborate, please. Isn't CSD support enabled in the Community Patch by default? Or am I already oxygen-deprived? Aside: Wouldn't it be helpful to explicitly state this in your installation instructions to avoid any confusion (yeah, I know, as if ..): I my experience...

Bugs galore in relation to City-States with the mod ensemble listed above. When I run the same additional mods with the latest DLL - Various Mod Components (v 63), but without the Community (Balance) Patch and CSD, my affairs with City States run smoothly. But with the above configuration...

Bug: Slump in relationship with City State after clearing a barbarian camp for them. Prague wanted a barbarian camp purged and aid against its attacks. Relationship improved to friendly - as expected - after I had killed a barbarian within their borders. I then cleared the camp next turn and...

I know that the mods used in a save file are all listed when you open it with a text editor. But do you know a utility that displays all relevant information about the starting conditions of a specific save file in a more neatly arranged way? Since Civ doesn't automatically choose the correct...

I have already expressed my love for the new Honor tree in another thread. Great work, guys! The old tree was practically useless for a human player since we don't need help in warfare. The new tree, otoh, answers exactly the urgent needs of a human warmonger. Even better, it reflects the...

After reading this thread, I am left with two questions that both deal with the intention behind the balancing act that is proposed here and in other places: 1. What kind of gaps in the unit tree have what kind of impact on gameplay? 2. What do we want to achieve by changes to units? [Aside...

It might not have been clear that I share your assessment, even though I look at it more from the perspective of passive and active defence investments. Additions to city defences that come as a bonus result of science and growth are not comparable to investments made for the sole (or main)...

I didn't think a feedback post was important enough to warrant its own thread - but since I have more to add, it would have been the better choice. I need to take a look at the CEP changes to barbarians. Right now, they are so passive and therefore easily abused as culture cows (while playing...

City Defence Strength Chiming in to support the idea that cities should have very little resistence against attacks without proper upgrades. At the moment, cities do pretty well against attackers, even without walls. But that is neither plausible, nor is it interesting from a strategic point...

I apologize in advance if this isn't the place to add this post. Danish Domination with Civ, WHoward's Pick'N'Mix Mods, and the Community Patch After playing with Venice and other more peaceful Civs for a couple of games, I decided to test the CP with something completely different: the Danes...

Does that mean I should definitely not add the new "AI - Warmonger Adjustments" mod on WHoward's Pick'N'Mix site to a fresh game that also features the Community and Balance Patch?