budweiser
King of the Beers
t193
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Immortal University 49 - Catherine
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Sidney Magal
Latin Lover
1300AD
To the ones who have already met all the AIs.
TMIT, the thing with humans is that, although sometimes you can get surprised by more inventive minds, they (we?) tend to follow some simple patterns and, also, to lose morale at the first more serious difficulty. Besides, most MP players have little or no idea how to develop a serious economy or protect themselves from some nasty surprises.
There was once I was playing a Pangaea game and there was a guy playing as the Khmer totally growing large. He was doing some sort of SSE/WE. His capital was coastal in the end of his empire and I was Sitting Bull in the other end of the map. While he had a massive army (although backwards), he only had a warrior defending his capital. As people forget that Pangea maps also have oceans, all I had to do was raze his capital and he quit. At that time, the only one who could beat me quit the game.
I reckon that good players are indeed much more difficult than the computer, but finding good players to play with is really, really hard.
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To the ones who have already met all the AIs.
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TMIT, the thing with humans is that, although sometimes you can get surprised by more inventive minds, they (we?) tend to follow some simple patterns and, also, to lose morale at the first more serious difficulty. Besides, most MP players have little or no idea how to develop a serious economy or protect themselves from some nasty surprises.
There was once I was playing a Pangaea game and there was a guy playing as the Khmer totally growing large. He was doing some sort of SSE/WE. His capital was coastal in the end of his empire and I was Sitting Bull in the other end of the map. While he had a massive army (although backwards), he only had a warrior defending his capital. As people forget that Pangea maps also have oceans, all I had to do was raze his capital and he quit. At that time, the only one who could beat me quit the game.
I reckon that good players are indeed much more difficult than the computer, but finding good players to play with is really, really hard.
Yes it is 3H, very nice boost and it makes AG finish the same turn as a worker. These types of numbers matching really pleases me for some reason. The incense will be a great boost too hopefully, plains incense is very rare and actually pretty decent unlike that silly desert one.
Played a bit and...
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budweiser
King of the Beers
t300
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NihilZero
WHEOOHRNY
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Impressive play as usual. To answer your question - I had a game once where I refused a Shaka demand, he went WHEOOHRN and waited several centuries to get Astronomy and attack me. So, it can happen sometimes.
Impressive play as usual. To answer your question - I had a game once where I refused a Shaka demand, he went WHEOOHRN and waited several centuries to get Astronomy and attack me. So, it can happen sometimes.
GreenShift84
Chieftain
@Grashopa
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budweiser
King of the Beers
@grashopa -
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NihilZero
WHEOOHRNY
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I didn't think of that at all.
So the benefit would be the three local (ie that city) trade routes at +1 each and also one other city that was trading with Rostov would have one of it's routes at +1. Probaby scales with size. Indeed very nice, sort of Civs equivilent of a Zwichenzung.
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So the benefit would be the three local (ie that city) trade routes at +1 each and also one other city that was trading with Rostov would have one of it's routes at +1. Probaby scales with size. Indeed very nice, sort of Civs equivilent of a Zwichenzung.
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NihilZero
WHEOOHRNY
Actually, I think that when I built a city on the same spot (without the GL), most if not all of my coastal cities had a trade route to there. Don't ask me to explain how it works, I have no idea. 
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In fact, here's my save for 1AD, you can see for yourself. Every city trades with Yakutsk, and not just the coastal ones. So, an offshore trading post is pretty cool whether you have the GL or not.
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In fact, here's my save for 1AD, you can see for yourself. Every city trades with Yakutsk, and not just the coastal ones. So, an offshore trading post is pretty cool whether you have the GL or not.
TheMeInTeam
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Strictly speaking, an off-coast city benefits you so long as you lack foreign trade to cover all trade routes. Cities always pick their most valuable trade route configuration (note: this is not an insignificant part of turn lag). However with domestic routes early on, that city is going to be worth 2 
to all mainland cities regardless of GLH. Actually, the only difference GLH makes in that one case is that the coastal city itself hangs an extra 2 2 trade routes. In a 6 city empire, the benefit from settling that city on trade > benefit from GLH (but only for that one city mind you).
Anyway, settling it is arguably a good idea regardless, it's just an issue of timing.
to all mainland cities regardless of GLH. Actually, the only difference GLH makes in that one case is that the coastal city itself hangs an extra 2 2 trade routes. In a 6 city empire, the benefit from settling that city on trade > benefit from GLH (but only for that one city mind you).Anyway, settling it is arguably a good idea regardless, it's just an issue of timing.
CivilizedTiger
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And failed again
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Sidney Magal
Latin Lover
Civilized Tiger
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