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What an insanely detailed article! ;-)

I too have occasionally seen sugar on hills. BTW I *THINK* I've seen scouts survive volcanic explosions. Is it possible there's a survival chance? Or that units are in fact actually *NOT* affected by explosions, at least if they are not in a city? USC

Tee hee -- you haven't played, or don't remember, Civ I, Civ II, or SMAC?? :lol:

Wow. I hate to do this -- it's a rather "empty" sort of post that I don't like to do, but... Great, GREAT communication, Tavis. Thank you. USC

No it can't, true. In that period you'd have an even greater percentage of the corruption lying in Washington ;) Actually, your comment points to what many have said, and what is basically true: ideally, corruption calculations should be strongly influenced by a Civ's transportation...

For better or for worse, the design philosophy is for corruption to be high enough in all governments that huge empires are not much better off than merely large ones, reducing the "steamroller effect." You can agree with it or disagree with it -- but that's what's going on. (Personally, I...

As far as I understand, culturally linked starting positions have NO effect on what civilizations are in the game. Rather, they affect where cultures start relative to each other. E.g. if there are two continents and the randomly picked cultures all come happen to come from the American and...

YOU BARBARIANS!!!

Corruption has two sources: distance from the capital itself and the "rank" of distance from the capital. Distance corruption should be clear enough. The RCP exploit had nothing to do with it, however. Rank corruption is higher for the city second-closest to the capitol than the closest...

I will not build it on the coast, I tell you, FP 3ux d4 most! I will not build it with Einstein, Not even with Tamerlane! I DO NOT LIKE THAT FP, MAN! You do not like it, so you say, Build it, build it, and you may! Build it and you may, I say! USC --- (That said... I certainly...

pop'ed.

3. Random maps are like a box of chocolates. ...also... Given a large enough number of CivFanatics posters, the truly random nature of map generation (i.e. the existence of "runs") means that there will probably be at least one poster who encounters a "run" of poor starting positions just...

Nevertheless, jimmydean is right -- it was a dumb move to change the shortcut. Heck, I've read the Conquests manual several times and never noticed the new shortcut key (if it's even in there). For the first two weeks after getting Conquests, I considered filing a bug report, that's how much the...

Exploit? How do you mean?

Actually, regional capitols are possible through modding already -- there is an "acts as a palace" flag. In fact, Tavis wrote that the problems introduced in 1.12 (or maybe 1.0) were caused by introducing support for such "multiple FPs". I think regional capitols would be INSANELY cool, or...