Recent content by Yin Cognito

It probably doesn't matter by now as years passed by, but since Civ 4 is still the best Civ game ever, I'm surprised no one mentioned Gigantic Accurate Earth Map by Laskaris. It's 232x112 and the most accurate I've seen, with an interesting (and practical) choice of map projection.

Nice! I've gone a step further in my own Excel map planner, by allowing the planning of all the cities/map tiles, instead of just one. Basically, besides editing/importing/exporting the map, it shows all the real and potential yields for every tile. Now the hard part is making a Sub to...

Well, this looks visually similar to my own Excel based Civ 4 "planner" from 2016, except that I used text to show the bonuses/improvements/routes/citynames instead of images... One thing I would like to ask you, since you mentioned that your tool can also be used to plan stuff, is how you'd...

Nice script. I was just beginning to implement some cut/copy/paste subs in my own (not yet published) Excel based map editor/planner, which will be able to do pretty much the same thing (as I already can redimension the map after a potential cut/copy), so I'll probably go on a roughly similar...

I also very much like setting the real map as background - it makes designing real maps so much easier -, it just gave me the idea to incorporate this into my own Excel based "map editor" (yes, yet another map editor, LOL - although it's more like a "planner" to optimize city placement by...

I'm not so sure. Forests are a finite resource - no matter how much you want to chop rush something, once the forest around the city is gone, so is the "rush". Population, though, is infinite - since you can whip then grow a city as many times as you like over the course of a game. Of course...

Thanks for letting me know. So yeah, apparently I overestimated how powerful slavery is, since you can have decent chances sometimes without it, but it goes without saying that it's still too powerful compared to other elements in the game. The most solid argument for making it that strong is...

Oh, wow, a fellow K-Mod player! :thumbsup: Thanks for posting the link to your save, I'll probably check it out to see the details (of course, I'll have to see whether or not the savegame is compatible with my older version of K-Mod, since Karadoc sometimes makes slight changes in the savegame...

That's great - I have to applaud you for trying to do things "the other way". So it's still possible to win at Deity with no slavery - good to know. I have a couple of questions though, if you like to share your thoughts about it... - What does "isolation" actually mean? As far as I googled...

You all raised some very good points, and I agree with most, but not all of them. Since what you guys said is related, I'll just write my answer to adress everything that you mentioned (without quoting), and I'll only emphasise the points where I disagree or have a slightly more nuanced view on...

Yep - I pretty much concluded the same thing (albeit in a different form) when I said that "Civ 4 did a great overall job to avoid making anything in the game significantly more powerful than the rest...with the exception of slavery". I guess my beef with slavery is that most (if not all) high...

So you can't win a MP without slavery? Because: - if you can, then you have another choice: don't use the civic - if you can't, then slavery seriously unbalances the game This reminds me of the Caravan unit in Civ 2 (if I correctly recall), and the way I used it to virtually build anything...

I know, I was just asking for an estimate, based on the player's experience. And yeah, a BOTM game was previously suggested to me on this. I'm not sure it would generate much interest though, as everyone seems to like playing a certain way. I know when I'm in a minority on things...:)

I fully agree with all that you said (although I didn't have the chance or interest to observe the slavery abuse by the AI more closely). I'm not saying conquering, slavery or vassals shouldn't be used by the human player though, just that their abuse could be avoided. I personally don't like to...

Oh, I didn't know that, since (for the reason you mentioned) I also play with the events off. Thanks for sharing this, it all makes more sense now. It certainly looks like a check against slavery, although it would make even more sense to make it a check against slavery abuse, rather than the...