Recent content by Wheem

You're confusing correlation with causation. ....... The market WANTS to set the price, but that price is directly affected by taxes and tariffs; to suggest otherwise is naive. Your suggestion that I was saying something was a "total and overwhelming" tariff is the real strawman here...

Ah, I remember that from the first Colonization, and was a little disappointed when it didn't happen in this version :)

I have a fairly recent game where I played for a while with pretty heavy liberty bell production, which lead to a large Royal Expeditionary Force. He started with roughly 70 Regulars, 45 Dragoons, 70 Artillery, and 35 Man-O-Wars (as a sidenote, it seemed that every time I got a message that the...

Proof? If you can buy an American-made Widget for $50, or a Foreign-made Widget for $30, how do you benefit from being forced to buy the higher priced product? (assuming product quality was comparable) See, protectionism not only harms the consumer when it comes to pricing; it also harms the...

Protectionism typically drives quality down and prices up; manufacturers should not be protected from competition, whether foreign or domestic. There are two primary reasons we've lost a lot of our manufacturing base; 1) High corporate tax rate (second highest in the world, as a matter of...

Yea, and I'm the Easter Bunny. ;) Hamilton was probably the worst of all the founding fathers. His loves - powerful central government and central banking - are a big part of the reason we have economic problems today.

In nearly every game that I've started, I'm in the extreme far south of the map (as English and Dutch anyway, haven't really played French or Spanish). There have been very few games where I'd start near the north end or at the equator, but those are a tiny minority.

When mousing over a civilization that was forced into capitulation, you'll see information about what % of population/land the vassal has compared to its master. However, you don't see any such information for colonies, and the rules seem different. Reading over the civilopedia, it seems as...

I've never actually seen an AI created colony rebel against its master, and declare independence. Is there any method for getting this to happen (without cheating)? Nothing seems apparent to me, since there's no way to "frame" an AI for espionage/sabotage (that I'm aware of), and they don't...

Tactical Nukes bypass SDI, don't they? Using nukes will cause global warming issues though, even if they're the tactical variety. Wish there was an option to "turn off" global warming (or at least make nukes not affect it, since it doesn't make a lot of sense that they do).

I get beaten to the Oracle quite a bit, but when I do build it, I generally get Code of Laws (or occasionally Theology). I'm virtually always the first to get Liberalism, and almost exclusively take Astronomy as the free tech. Being able to get some colonies on unsettled islands and...

We both have more than 4 cities. I quoted the wording exactly. It sounds to me like it counts as them declaring war, but I can't say whether or not that's actually how it works. I'm not even sure which file(s) contain the events.

The third option has a line in the mouse-over that says "Take the Babylonian actions as a war declaration against you." To me, it sounds as though they might be the ones that declare war if I were able to choose the option (for purposes of relations, perhaps?). If they're a colonial vassal, can...

I've noticed that there are a number of random events I get in the game that have grayed out options. Sometimes, there's a reason given for this in the mouse-over, and that makes perfect sense (ie, the "Heartrending Ballad" has an option that requires you to have the Radio technology). However...

That was the point ;)