Recent content by ZubieMaster

I guess I'll be the curmudgeon that has to say it: this is an embarrassment for what was a formerly proud franchise. Score another point for those that said this game has been dumbed-down; now it's on the platform for toddlers. Any pretense of this as a strategy game is long gone. Thankfully...

I agree with your in-game criticisms of religion, not to mention the bigger picture problems with it (like for me it ruins the immersion to pretend every civ leader has their hand so directly on the religious button versus it being an institution that often should not be controlled by the...

Loyalty is just meh for me. I agree with your thoughts on governors, plaza, and emergencies, and I lump loyalty in with them as "half-baked". Not acknowledging military presence whatsoever in a disloyal city breaks the immersion for me, since a city "flipping" while a large military garrison is...

I think this is an example of a thread that should contain a qualifying statement of which kind of players you want to answer. Like the "Civ4 lovers/Civ5 haters, thoughts on Civ6?" thread has great feedback because it specified particular respondents, then of course everyone was free to join the...

Amusing post and seems silly on the surface, but it touches on something missing from Civ VI. There's just too much that is directly player-controlled instead of requiring the longer term strategies like planning, influence & politics. It's a fine line for game design to provide players with the...

I think you hit on something very underrated here with a special franchise like Civ. Many have spent their entire life growing up playing Civ, so we get certain expectations of what Civ feels like. In past versions I always enjoyed looking over my vast lands at all the little workers toiling...

Mm-hm. "Forgot". So many sad things about this thread. Kudos to @Boyan_Sun for solving the mystery.

My answer to the original question goes back to the big picture. To me, the difference between Civ IV and the series starting with Civ V is like the difference between football (or futbol) and golf. Like football, Civ IV was about overcoming a defense to win. It always felt like there were...

No it's not right, you are right and the game logic is wrong (purposefully). The game fears exploiting conquest since warfare is too easy -- players could goad the AI into war then conquer without warmonger penalty if it was not the case, so we're stuck with this "fix". You will find a lot of...

Nice to see a mod addressing the issue, perhaps it will lead to an actual update. I realize they haven't even taken step 1 of fixing air combat, but just want to keep on the back burner that aircraft carriers need attention as well. The UI nightmare to keep a fighter cover on an aircraft carrier...

I disagree with your comments which I think are best represented by that final sentence. Too often the defenses of the game's warmongering penalty system is not based on arguing the actual mechanics, but co-mingling comments with "it's too easy to warmonger so I'm going to be automatically...

I agree with this, but the problem is the builder crowd would start to howl if their building got interrupted by negative game effects to the similar extreme of the AI hatred of warmongering.

Off the top of my head I would imagine Sparta v. Athens was probably an example of a war in part caused by a conflict between a Civ building libraries and one that was educated in encampments instead. But history is not so simple, and I don't think going down the historical precedence path is...

The "give everything back" mechanic is amusing to me because I just imagine if, for example, after building a university the player was forced to "give it back" when completed or else every single other civ would immediately denounce the "science-monger". I suspect that the builder crowd would...

I disagree with this perspective. I find most of the posters here are extremely knowledgeable and fully "get it" -- they just don't agree with it.