Recent content by zhivik

A fun fact - cigarette filters happen to be the exact size that fits in the barrel of a standard 5.56 NATO caliber rifle. I can tell you from experience, it makes cleaning your rifle A LOT faster.

Yet a spy can divert an oil tanker to another location, either by bribing port officials and/or the tanker crew, or by hacking the electronic system that handles delivery contracts, if we are going to get hypothetical. The rest is purely game mechanics - my idea was to prevent a player...

Steal a strategic resource mission I believe this may be very interesting, particularly in the late game, and especially if the map doesn't have a lot of oil, aluminium or uranium. Success in such mission would give temporary access to that resource (for instance, 20 turns on Normal speed), so...

Mostly cosmetic and UI mods, a couple of gameplay-related ones. The cosmetic ones I use are: More Lenses - extremely helpful and a feature that should have been in the base game. You get lenses for archaeologists, builders, city overlap (adjustable, default is six tiles and is very useful for...

Coming upon a discussion about the (now notorious) Flirtatious and Curmudgeon hidden agendas, I have a proposal how to resolve the issues around them. My idea is to introduce leader personality traits, which could be random, though some leaders could be more predisposed to some traits than...

The UI mods I started to use from day one are: Better Civilization Icons, Better Espionage Screen, Better Trade Screen, More Lenses, Real Great People, Tomatekh's Historical Religions, Unique District Icons, Unit Report Screen. They all work without any noticeable glitches. I personally don't...

Still, when you play as a male leader and suddenly Shaka comes and says he doesn't like you because you are a man - it isn't a pleasant feeling, especially in the medieval era, when Shaka could easily arrive with kinght and impi corps at your door ... I just think the game mechanics create...

I had absolutely the same experience - it depends where the conquered city is located. If it is in the heart of another empire or near its capital, then you usually get a -20 loyalty pressure from it, so you can't do much about it, unless you are at least in a golden age. Even then it is...

I concur and I had a similar experience with my first game as the Mapuche. I got Mongolia and Spain declare a surprise war on me, took cities from both and then agreed to peace (both cities were ceded). The first (Mongolian) city was near my own border, so I managed to keep it loyal, especially...

As long as you are there to keep them focused, I'd be happy to see as many devs as you see fit :) I must say this last live stream is an unexpected, but a very pleasant surprise, so I am definitely looking forward to it.

Guys, Sarah was quoted above that she is investigating the issue and that the Steam release time is wrong, so be patient until we hear from her. They are six time zones behind CET (Firaxis is located in Baltimore), it is about 9:30am there right now, so please give Sarah a chance to see what is...

I think they said so in the first live stream, something along the line that if you play long enough, you could fully upgrade all of your governors this way. I guess it is better than nothing.

Maybe Sarah wanted to write 6pm, rather than 6am. It matches what Steams tells me as the unlock time, 7pm (I am in the Eastern European Time zone, i.e. CET+1). Or, it may be a Steam thing, who knows.

Since Sarah's quote speaks of mainland Europe, I guess it will be at the same time, whch makes it 7am for us. I am at a dilemma here - I can easily work from home (and my employer allows it, as we start work pretty early), so no one will really watch me what exactly I am doing. On the other...

The ability to upgrade to corps and then armies upon city conquering is very overpowered, given that you not only get these for the cost of a single unit, but you also get additional strength. You only need to get enough artillery and a couple of units, and you can soon get a few formidable...