Recent content by vampireboot

If all you care about is gold, build/puppet a bunch of cities and cover their tiles in trading posts. Your science will suffer badly, but they're going to make a lot of gold.

The whole point of the science penalty is to prevent ICS from happening. Take that away and ICS becomes a great strategy again. Happiness is already nigh-irrelevant once Ideologies come into play. At most, have a policy reduce the penalty by 33% or something similar. Taking away the penalty...

#315: Why did Askia buy my city? Because I sold it for a Songhai. #316: How did I get Enrico Dandolo to embrace the true faith? I conVeniced him of the error of his ways. #317: Why did Germany invade France? Because France settled territory that Germany had already Bismarked. #318: Why wasn't...

In my last game, I built Machu Picchu in a city that was adjacent to a mountain in my territory, and close to another mountain two tiles away that wasn't in my territory. Guess which one it appeared on top of? Even at the end of the game, my city never managed to border pop that mountain tile.

I've never seen the early warmongers do well (Monty, Attila, Shaka, etc). They always annoy their neighbors a bit, fall behind in tech, and then sit around in irrelevance until the end of the game or someone puts them out of their misery. Early warmongering is hard enough without having the...

I've had the same experience with all of the early game warmongers, like Shaka, Attila, and Monty. They can be a threat to me if they're my neighbor, but most of the time they become very irrelevant very fast. They always have terrible tech, so after their UUs become obsolete, they just sit...

Alexander, no question. He's tough early on, because he has great UUs and is very aggressive, and he's tough later on, because he settler spams like crazy and steals all the city-states. I've never had a game with him where he wasn't a major threat.

Maybe you could try some advertising? Like so: "Come to lovely Tenochtitlan! Go see our magnificent pyramids and floating gardens! And make sure to partake in our local traditions, like dressing up as wildlife, or being sacrificed on a bloody altar!" :lol:

I've been seeing a lot of minor warmonger penalties lately, but I've also been playing against AI opponents that like to spam cities all over the place. Perhaps the penalty is lower the more cities they have? In my last game, I took all seven cities from the Mayans, including their capital, and...

That explains why I randomly have public schools all over the place.

I like this idea a lot, though it's a bit weak with just that effect. Perhaps also give a discount for purchasing units in combination.

I started trying this mod today, and I've generally liked the changes, except for one very frustrating issue that may or may not be a bug. Whenever I conquer an opponent's city, the city ends up with basically no health and restores only over a long period of time, meaning that the opponent can...