[GS] Gathering Storm General Discussion Thread

[AmazonQueen]

You haven't had your Suzerain taken out from under you and had 20 troops you were using turned against you. Yes I reloaded that one. Save scummer. But then later in the game I had Suzerain taken away yet again, this time with a fully promoted Amani at 12 envoys. Luckily this time I had 2 spare envoys to get Suzerain back, but I still lost my levied army. I didn't reload that one. That one was tolerable.

Good that the AI recognises how valuable those CS are to Hungary.

 

[Vahnstad]

hopefully there will be a civ of the week for all civs (gs version)... I will try to play the civ of the week always after it's announced. That could be a nice challenge!

 

[Red_warning]

I took a look at the steam achievements and it occurred to me that you could use them to see how strong and/or popular the new civs are, since it ranks the leader win achievements by rarity.

From lowest to highest: Hungary, Ottomans, Mali, Carthage, Elanor, Canada, Maori, Sweden, Inca.

Mind you it's not even a week after release so Hungary only got a 0,1 completion percentage while Inca is sitting at 0,3 % (all time highest is Rome at 11 %).

 

[Ondolindë]

@Eagle Pursuit, I don't know if you have been looking into patch activity for Mac, but I am wondering if they did some correction because I had a problem from the start with the game, and just out of the blue it was fixed yesterday. Have you seen anything?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

@Eagle Pursuit, I don't know if you have been looking into patch activity for Mac, but I am wondering if they did some correction because I had a problem from the start with the game, and just out of the blue it was fixed yesterday. Have you seen anything?

There haven't been any build updates since release day.

 

[Ondolindë]

Interesting. Don’t know what happened then. Thanks so much for checking and responding.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Interesting. Don’t know what happened then. Thanks so much for checking and responding.

No problem. Perhaps your graphics card drivers or operating system got some kind of update.

 

[Ondolindë]

No problem. Perhaps your graphics card drivers or operating system got some kind of update.

Actually, there were no updates. That’s why I was wondering. My issue was I couldn’t create a game from simple or advanced setup; it would show me any drop down menus. I had to create games using nVIDIA GeForce and save it to the cloud to play. So I did everything Aspyr recommended from running first aid on my system, shutting down and restarting it to uninstalling the entire game (9GB), but nothing. I was waiting for their response as to what else I could do. But last night, I launched it and just out of curiosity and habit at this point I went to Create a Game and everything worked. So happy that it does, but now I have no clue what fixed it. I did nothing different after I finished all their troubleshooting steps. I guess it’s the prankster ghost in the machine!

 

[Vahnstad]

I took a look at the steam achievements and it occurred to me that you could use them to see how strong and/or popular the new civs are, since it ranks the leader win achievements by rarity.

From lowest to highest: Hungary, Ottomans, Mali, Carthage, Elanor, Canada, Maori, Sweden, Inca.

Mind you it's not even a week after release so Hungary only got a 0,1 completion percentage while Inca is sitting at 0,3 % (all time highest is Rome at 11 %).

I do that often. And Gilgamesh is doing very well because of being OP (lol).

Trajan - 11%
Frederick Barbarossa - 9,3%
Theodore Roosevelt - 8,4%
Qin Shi Huang - 8,0%
Gilgamesh - 7,4%
Cleopatra - 7,1%
Hojo Tokimune - 7,0%
Peter The Great - 6,7%
Victoria - 6,2%
Catherine De Medici - 6,1%
Mvemba a Nzinga - 5,2%
Tomyris - 5,2%
Gorgo - 5,1%
Montezuma - 5,1%
Pericles - 4,9%
Saladin - 4,4%
Pedro II - 4,1%
Harald Handrada - 4,1%
John Curtin - 3,6%
Gandhi - 3,5%
Philip II - 3,4%
Queen Seondeok - 2,8%
Alexander - 2,4%
Jadwiga - 2,1%
Poundmaker - 2,0%
Amanitore - 2,0%
Cyrus - 1,8%
Robert The Bruce - 1,7%
Queen Wilhelmina - 1,7%
Genghis Khan - 1,4%
Gitarja - 1,4%
Shaka - 1,1%
Jayavarman VII - 1,0%
Lautaro - 0,8%
Tamar - 0,8%
Chandragupta - 0,6%
Pachacuti - 0,3%
Eleanor of Aquitaine - 0,3%
Kristina - 0,2%
Kupa - 0,2%
Wilfred Laurier - 0,2%
Dido - 0,1%
Mansa Musa - 0,1%
Suleiman The Magnificent - 0,1%
Matthias Corvinus - 0,1%

 

[Vahnstad]

I've completely finished my first game in more than a year (never finished one on R&F). I bought GS three days ago, and i've completed my game with the Inca's yesterday. I think i now completed games with Trajan, Barbarossa, Roosevelt, Qin Shi Huang, Gitarja and Pachacuti. Next in line would be Gilgamesh, but i'm saving Gilgamesh for a deity run. I know need to find a proper civ for level 5 difficulty which i enjoy.

I hated the mapmaking of continents so far, because the new continents seem to be fractal maps... which is not the ideal map to test out loyalty mechanics better. I also played mostly on a map with almost no mountains (with the Inca's), which made that game in particular seem lacking cause i couldn't explore specific mechanics i wanted to do with the Inca's (oh well that difficulty i chose was to low anyways). They've completely changed the mapmaking. I'll see what i do next. I have a hard time making choices.

I want to play Freleanor (finally a good and attractive leader for France) and maybe Mali, Sweden and Maori for this expansion. I skip the others for now (Canada, Hungary, Engleanor, Phoenicia and Ottomans). From the second expansion, i want to play Mapuche, Netherlands, the Cree and maybe Korea. From the DLC's, i want to play Persia, Nubia and Poland. And from the starter civs, i want to play Aztecs, Sumer, Japan, Russia and maybe Pericles. And if i have played these, i'll start on some other civs. I might do some civs again i've played in the past also (but lack some achievements from them and to have a better grip on them on harder difficulties, but not now yet). And there are still some other civs that interest me, just less than those now.

I also need achievements for fractal, archipelago map, deity victory, religious victory and huge map, so i need the right civ to play on these settings (Netherlands / Japan or maybe Spain for fractal, Maori for archipelago) (weird i've played with Indonesia and those didn't pop up... and lol apparently it was island plates). I'll play on a huge map with the Aztecs. And religious victory seems a good fit for Poland probably (i guess, otherwise, i'll just do one with Spain or India).

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Signs of life:

A QA build with GS was updated. Presumably this is the next patch.