Recent content by Thorrible

Thanks for all the responses. In all fairness, I wasn't trying to start an "AI cheats and I hate it" thread. Although it does cheat, it's an acceptible tool to compensate for the limited capacity and strategy that a desktop computer working off of one CD can muster. While it's off topic, I...

I guess the real way to figure this out would be to save your game when you have one turn to go on your regular setting, knock your research back, and then see how many turns it will take you to research another technology AFTER getting the advance AND resetting your science bar. Then, you...

Actually, this is easily explained in that, upon the prompt to choose your next research project, the computer is taking into account what you have your science counter at. If you drop from 80% to 50% to get that extra gold, once you finish your research, the computer will calculate how long it...

Is this some very abstract combat advice directly quoted from Sun Tzu? Zen and the art of AI Cheating? I'm going insane.

Attack them! I'm positive that leaving those camps around lets the barbarians work themselves up into those massive uprisings. The minute I see a Barbarian appear on my frontier, I send out a unit to meet it. As units are generally successful against barbarians, by the time he finds the camp...

Anyone ever see an AI ship sink because it's not in the right place? I haven't, yet when I make contact with other AI civs pre-Caravel, they will occasionally have rather developed settlements that are farther than three squares from shore. You know the type I'm talking about, they may not...

What happens if some of your more backwards citizens decide that they don't believe in TOE any longer? Is there a "Creationism" wonder that will allow you to learn two other non-existant technologies? Stay tuned, my state government will be figuring this one out.

Perhaps implementing a small wonder would be the solution to avoid alienating people. This way, you don't have Germans defined as "Christian". You could have a "Sage/Savior" or some sort of wonder where the civilization basically produces its own indigineous religion. This would historically...

How about a sports option? You could devote a small fraction (no more than 5%) of your civ's resources towards developing a good sports team. Your country would need a minimum number of Colliseums to have this option, upon which time you could also build the "Olympics" small Wonder. The...