Recent content by Tweakee

I'd like to see an AC-esque game strongly focus on Diplomacy, in much the way that Col focuses on Economics. It would give each game its own niche, and perhaps allow the Firaxis team to develop some new ideas and systems for diplomacy that could transfer over to Civ5 as well...

No, that's the SHIPPING date. The release date is the 23rd. I know, I know, it's lame that they list a date no one cares about (yay, it's "game is locked in a box on a truck day!"), but there it is. :)

Congrats! But that doesn't sound like fun. :)

Isn't the vassals declaring war on their own thing an RFC change? I don't recall them doing that in vanilla Civ. And yes, that's very annoying. I'd at least like the option to kick them as my vassal if they to pull something like that. :) It's been too long since I did the Ethiopia UHV that I...

My time off work has ended, so my game time is more limited now, but I had a chance to squeeze in a few more turns in my Russian game. Lucky me, Germany respawned, taking his towns from my allies. Once I swooped in and crushed the Germans, I had a nice strip of land connecting Russia to Rome...

I find Diplomacy to be presented very well. The mood modifiers are extremely helpful in explaining why the AI acts as it does. There are small things that could be improved, like how the AI knows when you bribe someone to declare war on him, so it'd be nice if we were told when the AI does the...

An indicator why brief info in-game is still preferable to more lengthy descriptions online. I have read the wiki. With no in-game context, that information is not particularly useful in a strategic sense. The wiki acts like a vague sense of guidelines for stability, which are only useful...

I could point out that this is a strong indicator that the way Stability is presented to the user is currently very poor, since you can't tell why anything is happening in even the vaguest sense or even if the code is working or bugged. I could make that point, bur since apparently Stability...

It probably just requires a bit better land or resource layout to make eatern expansion more likely/rewarding. So much of the landis so bad and so many of the resources are in terrible spots, that it's hard to fault the AI for ignoring the east.

And I should care about that? Judging from how the real game was designed, I think the Civ4 team would agree with me. :) Besides which, I'd argue that most of the people that are turned off by the poor feedback for Stability probably aren't playing this mod anymore. I've been playing games a...

Better question: why have an Emperor level if it is literally impossible (which for many Civs it currently is)? It seems very odd to chide someone for trying to help fix a feature that currently does not work properly. I think the best solution would be to eliminate the AIs research...

I won't be trying any Emperor UHV that requires sabotaging thousands of years of history to make it possible. That seems really contrary to having fun or a challenge. RFC is currently a lot of fun on Monarch level, but I don't really consider Emperor level a playable feature for many civs.

Changing the research rates to make those UHV's possible would be great. Right now for some Civs Emperor isn't a "difficulty level", it's a "masochistic torture device". :)

I recently did the German UHV, and had to actively give away land to avoid a domination victory. I had 5 vassals, controlled all of Europe, and had given Africa, South America, and Arabia to my vassals. Even still, my german lands were massive, and my research was pumping out a tech every 2...

Yeah, I'd imagine. I'd just never seen them really use boats, let alone be the first to explore S. America. Spain is common, or England, China once in a while. Of course, usually it's me hitting SA first, so it's not an issue. :) Heh. Rome might be a bit too powerful in the 600AD start. The...