Recent content by WCH

Liberals and Conservatives are both screwing things up. Just saying. Screw partisan politics. Oh, and anyone who thinks slavery is no longer a factor needs to take a long hard look at world economics. Somewhere between exploitative manufacturing (sweatshops, etc), wage slavery (McDonalds, etc)...

I often find myself wanting to stretch certain eras, make it so that a lot more can happen then before technology rolls on to something else. Simplest way I can think to do that would be to take all technologies past the desired age and make them several times as expensive as usual, so they can...

Nitpick, but there are some complicated alchemical principles that make it so that you can transmute iron into copper, but never copper into iron. :crazyeye:

I'm sure someone who knows the answers to your questions (not me) will answer them soon enough... but you should know that it's relatively simple to test it and find out for yourself. Just go into the WorldBuilder and create one unit with magic immune, and others who have the ability to create...

Ironically, a friend of mine named Kyle recently changed his name on Facebook to Kale.

I feel like "soldiers" and "weapons" ought to be separated. Soldiers should cost upkeep, weapons should cost production; it's relatively simple to manufacture large amounts of weapons and stockpile them somewhere in case of emergency, and since an individual soldier's military career is likely...

The way I remember it working is that they have to have adopted your religion as their state religion first. So what you do is put it in all their cities, bribe them to convert, and then use inquisition all over before they have a chance to change back.

Just a point that came to me... not all civs in a game need to be intended to be played. The Doviello, for instance, can make a worthwhile NPC civ, fleshing out the map more, even if they aren't completely balanced. In fact, having a few of the AIs in any given game play underpowered civs makes...

Hm... he just said "I cant tell you more" -- cant means secret language, so the sentence really means "if you pay careful attention to the words I use, you will learn quite a lot more." That is, his cant will tell you more. :p

If your era is Ancient, then Creative is pretty awesome early on. If you do a later start it's not worth much.

What two movement means to me is being able to send new troops to the front line twice as fast, faster relocation of army from front to front, and being able to kill nearby units and rejoin the stack in the same turn. In cases where you have the tech lead and want to steamroll, extra movement is...

I've got some pretty compelling evidence to the contrary.

True. I had a lot of forests around my first city though, so a lot of my early builds were from chopping.

Just happened to me, too. The city that flipped had several wonders in it, and the civ it flipped to had capitulated to me less than 10 turns earlier. Guh.

I just had a game as Ramesses where I wanted to play with leveraging the Spiritual trait, and to try whipping, since I'd never really done either. I ended up with a lot of river tiles, and so decided early to spam farms, using a mix of chopping and whipping for production, and scientists for...