Recent content by WeirdoJoker

Interestingly, I've never used an Explorer. In fact, I'm not really conceiving of a use for one. Maybe only on Huge maps ... ? I've only ever done Large.

Unfortunately, neither was my starting position, which had a cow and wheat, but was in plains & no grassland to be seen, which is playing hell with my ability to grow a town (other than the capital) fast enough to get some real settlers out. Thinking of starting over w/ the same civs but a...

Playing as Spain (random draw), UU is the Conquistador. Short question: what good is it, when it becomes available with Astronomy?

Just finished my 2nd Emperor win today with a Diplomatic victory as Sumerians. Originally was going for the Spaceship, but changed my mind when I realized I could engineer a UN victory by getting everyone on board against Rome even though Mongols were my only (and not serious) competitor. Also...

I meant what was done to fix it.

How did the scientific golden age bug get fixed?

Oh, I probably won't use it all (except maybe after a save to test it) ... that seems, for the reason you state, almost as bad as automating workers.

Is this an automated attack function for the stack?

That was the point I had not considered, and which probably is the issue in my case. I have 3 luxes: 2 spices on my starting landmass, 1 wines in a captured town (from Ottomans), and 1 furs in another captured town (from the now-defunct Byzantines) - both of the latter on separate landmasses...

Is there an inherent value in playing a larger map - e.g., Standard versus Small? My current game is on a Small map (6 civs including my Vikings) and am wondering if I shouldn't have played a Standard map instead. Lots of Bonus tiles on the map overall, but not much in the way of Luxes...

Playing Emperor/Small/Archipelago (though actually a couple decent-sized continents) as Vikings. Took out the last of the Byzantines, and going after Germany next (F3 says "strong military" and it's not as spread out as the other three). Is it better to DoW the opponent, or make an...

I've never heard this term before. What is a "combat settler"?

How does abandoning a city work, and what happens when you do? I've never done it. Is there some significance to abandoning a size 3 town?

Thanks. Downloaded GIMP and am trying now. It's going to take a while to figure out how it works exactly.

How is this done? I assume some file needs a minor edit?