Recent content by Trapper439

As I was playing the game (BTS with latest patch) I somehow suddenly changed the camera view. It may have had something to do with the right mouse button, but I'm not sure. I've tried resetting the graphics options with "Restore Defaults" but that didn't work. Restarting the game doesn't work...

Didn't submit a save, but as someone who struggles on Emperor I was astonished at how easy I found the early game. Surely the two bonus techs weren't the main difference? Managed to peacefully REX to 6 cities and then take out Wang Kon with Axemen. I managed to build a huge force of them more...

Seraiel, earlier in the thread you alluded to a Football Manager story you'd posted on another forum. If you could provide a link to that thread I'd appreciate it. I've recently dusted off an old FM2009 game (managing Sunderland), and I'd like to hear what insights a brilliant gamer such as...

Did this lead to cities that weren't producing settlers or workers (and therefore not having to feed their unhappy citizens) losing population from starvation all the time? I'm guessing that they were all building the settlers you needed, but was any population loss from starvation going on...

As a player who has only had a few wins on Emperor, I'm struggling to get my head around this. Fantastic play, and a great write-up. Very educational. I particularly liked the way that your population increased by 750% in 100 years after Sushi came online. I remember in older Civ games the...

Yeah, I'm just finding my feet at Emperor level. Won my last couple of games and then astonished myself by majorly messing up this game. I was possibly a bit too reluctant to whip the capital, and really made an absolute hash of this good start. I'd be interested to see your save file and...

Watch what is happening over a few turns. If you have, say, 31% culture on that tile and then when you check again five turns later you have only 29% then you're losing the culture battle. I don't think that there is any way to judge it more quickly than that.

I was going to post this in a "Best Starts" thread that I read recently, but I can't find it, so I've made a new thread. This is easily the best start I've ever had. 5 Gems (6 if you settle 1NW), all of them riverside, and a riverside cow. The save is: BTS Emperor Epic speed Huge...

I haven't seen it, no. The truly devout don't read the entire thread. All prophets get a mixed reception. If I was you I wouldn't worry too much about that, unless someone tries to nail you to a tree.

There are plenty of brief religious summaries out there. If none of them satisfy your spiritual needs you should write your own brief summary. Be sure to include lots of references to who begat whom, or it won't be taken seriously. Also, and I can't stress this enough, include lots of...

OP here, belated thanks for all of the responses. I went for a different kind of variety in the end. ie Unrestricted Leaders. Playing as Boudica of the Romans (I didn't select that, it was what the random leader/random civ option gave me) I got the easiest of the handful of domination...

I've gotten into the bad habit of only playing Pangaea maps, perhaps because I like the large scores that a quick Domination on a map where the enemies are easily accesible can get you. And I have to admit that I really suck at building a decent navy. My Triremes are usually built too late, and...

Ah, OK. Thanks for that, Sisiutil. Yeah, forgoing Machinery doesn't sound like an attractive prospect at all. I guess I'll just have to work harder at leveraging Caste System and Pacifism in order to improve my Lib dates.

Hi all. BTS question: I read people talking about bulbing Liberalism all the time, but I never seem to get that option. ie Once I've bulbed Philosophy and Education the next GS only gives the option of bulbing Scientific Method. Do I need to refrain from researching a particular tech(s)...

I'm going to vote for Genghis. Not because he's a great leader, but because he seems like the kind of guy you could sit down and have a fermented mare's milk with, unlike the rest of them elitist pointy-headed bureaucrats in Karakorum. Genghis/Monty in 2012!