Recent content by TyBoy

Last I saw them the formulae for city connection gold weren't affected by how the connection is made. IIRC they're only a function of the size of the city and the size of your capital.

It's not that golden ages aren't decent, but the cost of a happiness inspired one is big too. How much you want to value a point of happiness for one turn is a bit subjective, 2g was clearly the value the devs were using to start out with, but they've pulled back on some of the sources that...

I vote Alhambra too. It comes at a time when the AI probably has the biggest tech lead it will have all game and is on a low priority tech for me that I think is fairly high priority for the AI. It may or may not be gettable if I beeline it, but there's basically no situation where that is...

In my experience the ISS is pointless. There aren't two congresses worth of turns between unlocking it and winning a space victory.

If you played your game with this specifically in mind it seems doable, even on deity. You'd play it as a domination game, but leave one capital of a not too advanced and not too culturally backwards civ in place. If you invest nothing in tourism and sell of tourism buildings where possible...

I really like America for a generic warmonger civ. Generally I'll try and get into war around the time I can first get mustketmen online (having already picked up education) and go slow at first, getting xp for my units and depleting the opponents army to replacement levels, all the while...

Since the BNW tech tree changes I don't see much point to GL anyway (which is good since it's ungettable on deity). With the G&K tree and immortal difficulty I considered it worthwhile to use it to get civil service, but if the best tech you can get for it is second tier classical then even...

The map generator places wonders after it chooses starting locations and won't place one within 5 tiles of a start location. On deity, the AI only needs 100 faith for that first GP. I'm not sure if they need half faith for the pantheon too. I'm fairly sure that the AI would not work Mt. Sinai...

You can also get to the trade route breakdown by clicking on the fraction on your info bar that shows the number of trade routes you're using/have available. The headers for the various items in that table can be clicked to sort them the same way you would most computer lists/tables. If you...

Definitely your cities, that's mostly where it is going to get use.

The era for the great work is based on when you converted the great person into a work. I think it will usually be worthwhile to sit on a great person if you need to in order to make sure the work is for the correct era. For example saving your Uffizi GA until you pop the industrial era so...

It doesn't seem to me like the mandekalu cavalry would be adding all that much to the mongol horde. Any unit can sweep in and take a city with no hp. If you're getting them from a CS anyway, conquistadors are better in every way. If I was making a custom civ I would want to pair a chariot...

In my experience anything that required ecology + 13 turns would be a pretty niche change so I couldn't imagine a lot of balance problems from it. If you had any non-domination victory enabled it would be unlikely to have any effect at all.

You might like trying out an interfaith dialogue-based religion as a compromise. Pick up the cheaper missionaries enhancer and policy and build the Mosque of Djenne and you can convert faith into science at a pretty impressive rate starting in the late medieval. You only need to keep your own...

What you're calling logic, Socrates, is not logic/analytical skills, but realism. For logic/analytical skills to be important means that, given that you're told the mechanics of the game, you can figure out pretty optimal play by just reasoning it out. As a turn based game analytical skills...