Recent content by tinstaafl

Ha yeah, AZ's pronounciation is sooo funny. Anyways, to all english speakers, for a simpler explanation then the above try to pronounce it like this: luns-ck-nash-t I agree, the k not being silent is probably the hardest part.

Some thoughts on unhappiness: You are still in slavery, so: either whip away unhappy citizens to build happiness buildings fast, or alternatively switch to emancipation to help with culture war, and get rid of 2-3 unhappiness per city. Connect your second coal, trade your friend ghandi coal...

A thought: meaningful experiments could be based on the comparison epic/huge vs marathon/huge. I believe for most players who usually play normal/standard, huge goes with epic, since epic scales all costs equally. The effects of huge maps having more chaotic - thus harder - diplomacy are i...

Every once in a while you start in isolation with no happiness. I find that in this situation theatres, collosseums and a 20% culture slider are a good way to go. They also work better with farms than cottages. That's just if you have room for many good big cities. If your land is mediocre...

sounds like a very engaging game :)

Not necessarily millions of battles. you said yourself that the chance for that series to happen is .032% , which is correct. Now, consider millions are playing this game. It stands to reason that some people WILL get screwed by the RNG, and some will be screwed over by the RNG more than others...

The oracle->mc->mids is probably trying to get the mids from an early engineer from a very early forge. Can be done if you oracle metal casting and complete the forge in i think 8 turns with a philosophical leader (so you don't spawn a great prophet from teh oracle first). It's an old idea...

The city under attack already has a wall, but eobet is not in slavery, but serfdom (note to eobet : serfdom is typically regarded as the most useless labor civic. all others have their role, but instead of serfdom, just build more workers). Switching into slavery will take 2 turns (marathon)...

I applaud this. The strategy forum has a tendency to try to remake every player in its image, to the point of telling someone that he is not asking the most important questions. This probably comes off a little strong. Taking the journey yourself can be more fun. HOWEVER. 75% of your questions...

Not exactly, but spies can help some with the process culture flipping by increasing your culture in their city, or decreasing theirs, i'm not sure. The city in question must also be pressured by your culture though, and i don't think the spy mission has a big effect in any case. Not very...

One more thing about food: Maastricht was founded on a pig. that loses you 3 potential food. You should almost never found a city on a food special, the exception being possibly founding an early city on unirrigated rice. Oh, yes. Might as well explain chain irrigation. When you have a farm...

About that little island city (fish/clams), better domestic trade routes are just part of why that city is viable. a city like that may increase commerce in all of your other cities by 1, because it will count as intercontinental, and even the most basic trade route will be worth 2 commerce. Its...

I only mentioned the coal to describe the location. I would probably have settled a city on the coal hill, perhaps city 7 or 8 or so, before i had known there was coal. settling on that hill gives a sheep ressource on the island for growth, 3 lake tiles powered by a lighthouse (3:food...

That's probably sensible, i put it in spoilers because it's pretty much a step by step, it might take out some of the fun in discovering the game. Yes, manage the builds of your cities personally. Arguments can be made to automate workers later in the game, but you should probably never...

This is winnable, i played it out and cultural victory took 56 turns. No space parts had yet been built by anone, i think.