Recent content by Volapyk

Civ 1, my father used it to teach me English and history, as much as you can teach a 4 year old boy anyway ;)

Depends a lot on terrain tbh, if you assume even late game your cities wont reach much bigger than 30, with say 10 specialists, they only need 20 tiles to actually work. And only at that at the very end of the game, so if you want/can put up even 1/6th additional cities it is well worth it...

I miss the days of Civ 4 where you could found all the religions yourself to ensure they wouldn't spread ;)

Anyone know exactly how big a faith bonus the AI actually gets? I've seen them spawn over 17 great prophets in a single game, given it was a wide Ethiopia so they do generate more faith than your average civ, but doing the calculations they would have had to generate over 115 faith per turn...

I once got Rome itself, which the Zulus had conquered a few turns earlier :) It had several great works and even a few wonders!! It was only size 4 though as the Zulus and Rome had each in turn captured it for several turns in a row.

But wasnt that in GnK where ICS where easier to achieve and number of cities didn't increase the tech cost?

So because you got used to the way too easy to get hapiness of GnK, and that has since then been changed, the game is now unplayable with your old strategy? I don't know how wide you really want to build your empire, but it is possible to build a really wide empire, it is just much harder to...

It doesn't show opened trees, but rather number of policies chosen in a selected tree, so she might have opened Rationalism but still have no policies in it.

Either I'm missing something or there seems to be some blatant holes in the diplomatic system when it comes to dealing with the AI. First off it seems the rolling denounciation mechanic of good ol' vanilla civ 5 is back. Here is a rather annoying example of how I got f***ed up in one of my...

Industrial Espionage is actually a lot better than it sounds, due to how the mechanic is calculated in that is. Say normal espionage rate is 100% but with the -50% from Constable and Police Station you are now only at 50%, which isn't uncommon for that juicy tech capital city you are spying in...

You sure your own pressure on other ideoligies helps defend against their pressure on you? In my last game I was the only one to adopt Autocracy everyone else went freedom or order, but I felt confident as I had massive culture output (controlling half the map with a lot of cities, a lot of...

Assuming they actually send those 4 trade routes to you I would say your UA is well worth it. You have to remember that each trade route extra they send to you you will earn even more cash. So if both the US and Spain gets 8 extra gold you get 6 gold and 2 culture, but you also get all the...

Having just finished my first BNW game, as Venice ended up with a Cultural victory even though I initially went for a Diplomatic win. This thread is for discussing the strategy used and perhaps how to steamline for it. (Thread name is a South Park reference if you didn't get it) Here is how...

Twice now I've seen this feature mentioned as being part of the expansion, yet never with any specific details to it. It was mentioned by Dennish Shirk in context of tourism and it's non cultural victory usages in an interview, and this article also supports the idea that it will happen through...

So during my latest game while studying some of the numbers of my empire at the end, mostly for personal notes and comparisons, I noticed something odd in the happiness details, I had a negative number of unhapiness from population. I could find no explanation for this number, even with...