Recent content by Viper Daimao

Its generally accepted that humans are much better at war than the AI. Therefore the longer amount of time you have to war with the AI, the more advantage to the Human. So epic and marathon are great for warmongering.

also, make sure you dont have your workers set to auto-improve. If so they will build way more farms than is needed, and not enough cottages which will bring in the big money when they eventually become towns. You have to micromanage your workers and cities.

perhaps it would be useful (if tedious) to make a mod that allows you to have more than 3 spys and put spys in all the AI cities to see how they act.

I often build cottages on grassland hills. but ive been playing a catherine cottage spam strategy the last few games

I'd eschew cottages, and turn it into a production city. Get enough farms to where you can work all the hills, and mine them all. With stone and marble, this city could really turn out some wonders, or just units to take over your neighbor.

I dont know if this has been said before, but I'd try spearmen.

all he did was change the odds. perhaps there are smaller odds if its not being worked on.

oh ok, I never checked strictly, so I guess some building do survive. The culture buildings make sense, but I think its too hard to get take over a city later in the game because you get suffocated by the other cities' culture and done have any land to work. And I could have sworn you could get...

I was going off of what zyphyr said:

Yes. I do, but I am not confusing the two as you suggest. I am totally against state property as a form of govt, as an ideal, as anything. Communism enevitablly equalls totalitarianism because communism does not work, its not in human nature for it to work, and the only way for it to function at...

I usually build towns on Grassland/hills. Can anyone confirm that you can get a resource to pop out of a mine if its outside the city fat cross? (edit, meant towns not cities)

As a libertarian, I always feel dirty by running state property and building the Kremlin. If only they werent so damned over powered. How does state property have NO maintance? If anything it should be high. Like really high, to balance out how godly that civic is for a big empire. I mean, if...

"And you also have to deal with the fact that the AIs are furiously trading techs behind your back." hmmm, that would be a neat mod, to show all the trades and stuff AI's do with each other.

whats the best way to gift a civ units if they dont have open boarders with you? you can gift subs without open boarders. So i guess you'd have to get them to agree to open them up. I guess the standard options are switching to same religion, favored civics, or war ally. Ive gotten a negative...

Question: What settings would be the optimum for this strategy? Highlands? Huge map? pangea or lakes? Does the game speed have any effect?