Recent content by VTMatt

Gah, well there goes that scheme. Thanks for the quick reply!

Why didn't I get a culture bomb for this pasture as Australia? I'm playing a single city challenge, so I was thrilled to land the Great Merchant who annexes tiles into my empire. I snagged this cattle tile, dropped a pasture on it hoping to culture bomb my borders out further and got...

I like the system, though I'd like to see some changes to exactly how it's implemented. Perhaps dropping the %boost, and adding a second possible Eureka/Inspiration to some or all would be better. I try to play efficiently, but sometimes feel pigeon-holed into doing things I otherwise have no...

Got Lakes is a mod I've been playing around with recently. It has the same basic map types (pangea, continents, islands), plus 'lakes', each with a lot of options for customization. For example, on islands, you can choose if you prefer several larger islands, geologic type chains, a ton of...

Noticed an ai hunting goodie huts with an inquisitor in my current game. I rarely play for religion, so I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of those units, but apparently they can't cash in on tribal villages. The ai beat me to two remote goodie huts, but both remained for my scout...

Have encountered the same bug! Appreciate the description of the mechanics though, I hadn't noticed the turn it happened, so didn't know how the dual friend/enemy states occurred

So with the new DLC somewhere on the not too distant horizon, I've been wondering if we have any updates on additional leaders for existing civs. Upon release, I was excited for the different flavor of each civ with multiple leaders, but so far, we just have Greece, even though all of them have...

Nice writeup! I play exclusively single player (thanks, rural Vermont internet speed...), but most of what you've said is pretty applicable there too in my experience. Personally, I try to get a couple cities up as early as I reasonably can, with probably a little less emphasis on military...

Civ: Aztecs Map: Pangea Map size: Standard Difficulty: Emperor Target: Domination Victory No screenshot, as I'm at work for a little while at the moment, but... Early game is going well, I'm expanding nicely, knocked off two worthless city-states near me and have a huge chunk of land all to...

Someday I'll win a game by these standards :lol: I play on Emperor usually, sometimes King, but I average wins in 300-350 turns. I think I enjoy the early empire buildup too much, I like focusing on my domestic empire, then snowballing into victory later on. Regarding religion, I tried a...

Like minded as in, cultural based civs near other cultural based civs, domination/military powerhouses near one another? I always assumed it was related to real world geography, so I'd see more euro civs near other euro civs. Since I'm playing on random maps, I found that to be pretty...

Great feedback Victoria and all, thanks! Regarding the earlier discussion of counterspy mechanics, I agree that I'm not huge on the current 'defend one district in one city, and maybe another which happens to be adjacent to it'. There are so many other important factors determining district...

I'm not sure exactly what it does, but I always disable the cultural start bias, can anyone elaborate on what that specifically does, and how it influences grouping civs start locations? I'm firmly on the side of "RNG will RNG" myself. There aren't that many civs even in the game yet, if you...

Another Vermonster! :goodjob: I rarely levy, but that's not a bad idea. I could see myself using it more than I usually do in peaceful science/culture games. I think the trick is unless you're REALLY all in on it, there's a big degree of luck in being suz of city states that are actually in...

I'm usually happy to trade back spies I've captured, as the AI seems to be willing to pay well for them. As for my own, I'd always like to get them back, but find that the AI often wants my firstborn for them. I had a game last night where I was pushing all of my spies at an opponent I was...