Recent content by Thrallia

Turn 307 Victory, score was in the 700s. I settled 8 cities in the first 100 turns, and conquered Egypt(when they tried to kill my science city-state ally), and France(because they kept declaring war on me and getting wiped out), with legions before turn 100 as well. That gave me a base of 11...

I'm astonished at some of the times people post. I'm pretty sure that even if I played this exact save 50 times, I'd never approach the fastest times posted here. Now, one thing I would do better, is I didn't realize that Observatories had to have mountains TOUCHING the city, not just in the...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 139 Date submitted: 2016-07-29 01:24:47 Reference number: 34667 Your name: Thrallia Game status: Science Victory Game date: 1934AD Turns played: 354 Base score: 2154 Final score: 3077 Time played: 9:32:00 Submitted save: TSG 139.Civ5Save Renamed file...

I figured that, since I had no choice but to push through Piety, I might as well make getting a strong religion a priority. I also wanted to make sure that I build 4-6 cities in places near mountains to get the best use out of my terrace farms. I settled in place, as I usually do. Even though...

This seems fun. I'm iffy on winning on Emperor, so I'm not sure if I'll make it or not.

Hmm, I doubt we can get Oracle on Deity, but that's a good point I suppose. I guess I really need to learn more about good ways of using social policies before Rationalism opens up. Often I get a lot of them, but I tend to be annoyed, after the first three or four, that I have to waste them on...

What makes Poland so powerful? 7 free social policies, assuming you reach the information age, is fine and all, but that doesn't sound all that powerful, given it's 7 spread out over 250+ turns

Game: Civ5 GOTM 127 Date submitted: 2016-01-16 23:50:52 Reference number: 33790 Your name: Thrallia Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1880AD Turns played: 310 Base score: 1566 Final score: 2525 Time played: 19:33:00 Submitted save: TSG 127.Civ5Save Renamed file: Thrallia_C512701.Civ5Save...

I settled in place and sent my warrior west, then north, and was surprised to find Geneva hadn't settled a city. Obviously, I immediately took the settler for an early worker, and proceeded to continue on my plan explore the continent and then decide my definite plans. Initial capital build was...

True, but I hadn't saved in quite some time and my autosaves were overwritten by a different game before I thought to check them(and are only once every 10 turns still, since I hadn't played a GOTM in so long.)

I managed to last until the New World was discovered. By then, Rome had conquered Japan and was working on Persia. The Ottomans had taken out India, aside from Delhi, and the Netherlands had managed to peacefully settle about 15 cities and were destroying everyone in culture and science. Sadly...

Well, I settled in place, built a couple scouts and then built a shrine to try to grab a religion. Diety AIs seem to have even more bonuses than in Civ IV, as by the time Madrid was size 3, all the AIs had 3 cities that were at least size 3 as well. Anyway, I managed to build 2 settlers and...

Sadly, I won't be submitting this time, as I somehow accidentally deleted my save when trying to mess with some mods, but I'm replaying anyway to try to learn better how to deal with a mass-war game and not lose my empire and army to unhappiness and money troubles. I started out rather slowly...

awesome, thanks Knowtalent!

What is that UI mod that many of you seem to be using? I really like how it presents info compared to the default UI.