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On ideology chat: Once they're at the worst level of unhappiness, is there anything else you can do to speed it along? I thought of cutting luxuries, but that seems a lot of effort for not much gain.
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Shaka is already plotting against Zulu on turn 42.  I always seem to struggle with the early game the most, I always feel behind in getting out Settlers and such. My usual order is monument-shrine-scout and then see about the Great Library for that early research boost, research Pottery/Writing/Husbandry/Trapping/Calendar, with Drama and Poetry as my free tech. I usually just get workers and settlers from Liberty, but I was trying out a Piety rush as the Celts and the Austrians have already grabbed a city spot I was looking at.
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Sep 5, 2013 21:16
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I think I might have to stop reflexively grabbing the Great Library, I'm probably just ingrained from Civ III where it was ridiculously good.
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Sep 6, 2013 00:19
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beerinator posted:I'm with you. The early game makes me feel like I'm getting destroyed by the AI. They're all at 2 or 3 cities and I still haven't produced a settler yet. The one thing that really annoys me is the inability to set up colonies on resources, especially since you're encouraged to only have a few cities. Am I the only one that refuses to trade Great Works if I like them? It may give me a +1 theme bonus, but I'll be damned if I have to give up Le Mis. e: holy gently caress stop coveting my lands I'm doing the one city challenge here. StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 6, 2013 |
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Sep 6, 2013 02:22
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What is up with the AI's huge boner for AA guns? I've seen em attack cites.
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Sep 6, 2013 05:34
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Pvt.Scott posted:Well, if they didn't build lots of AA, their units would just get bombed to dust. I doubt the AI even really knows how to use them and just covers their units from air attack by happenstance. Evidently, since they just sent about 5 bombers in a row at 1 unit that would instantly regenerate covered by an AA gun that instantly shot all their bombers down.
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Sep 6, 2013 06:14
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So Venice question: what kind of victory should I be going for? Diplomacy's out since I'll need to puppet city-states, and Conquest is probably out too, but are Culture and Science victories feasible with such a small empire? e: also do you reccommend just using the beta patch?
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Oct 3, 2013 06:52
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You know, I've mostly been playing Prince and winning all the time, time to kick it up a notch. Started next to France and Montezuma  e: restarted and Monty is next to me again. StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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Oct 5, 2013 01:27
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:I feel like a massive cheater when I use a mod to give IBCMs longer range, because I know the AI isn't quite adapted to it. However, I've never seen an AI actually launch a nuclear attack, probably because I always obliterate or appease anyone that completes the Manhattan Project. How many people here have been nuked? Is there a message that pops up to tell you it happened? In a post-game war with America, they did hit my army carpet with a few nukes, so it does happen.
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Nov 8, 2013 22:45
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I just won my first King victory. What's a good civ for an easy domination victory? I haven't won one since BNW came out.
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Nov 8, 2013 23:53
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The White Dragon posted:Civ 5 runs really hot. Pretty much the best you can hope for is installing MSI Afterburner or one of its (many?) analogues. Try running DX9 if you're not, I ran the advanced mode so I could see the pretty leader animations and the game literally shut off my laptop, it got that hot. The White Dragon posted:Well maybe they should've made America's UA be "buy other civs' tiles at 4x price" I've always thought that a good UA for America would be some sort of immigration-themed ability to steal territory and pop away from neighbors.
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Dec 4, 2013 07:01
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How's Rome for a domination victory? I tried the Zulu but ended up not putting out enough troops, happiness, or money; thought the bonus to stuff in the capital would make it easier to build up conquered cities.
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Dec 7, 2013 05:09
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:I've rarely even managed to get an AI unhappy. One time I got the Shoshone to -20 because I was their only trading partner and I declared war, but they quickly built it back up again somehow. I've forced the AI to switch ideologies by a combination of tourism and loving them in the World Congress, but they always flip ideologies before any cities get away.
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Dec 11, 2013 22:31
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I'm getting a unit support penalty for a one-city game where it tells me I can't support more than 22 units, is there a way to change this?
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Dec 31, 2013 23:53
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So I'm playing a multiplayer game with my family and I'm going to get nuked in the near future. How can I defend against it? I won't have nonproliferation in time, can I shoot down the incoming nukes? I don't have uranium myself (there appears to be 4 in the entire game  )
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Jan 1, 2014 05:44
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Yeah, he's got cities in range of mine, we're right on the border. I've only got one city and it's protected by a line of units on forts, if he drops a few nukes on my border I'm totally dead.
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Jan 1, 2014 06:20
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Two questions. First, what's the best civ for raw growth rate? I'm gonna get into a multiplayer game and wanted to get a civ that allows me to get big fast to keep ahead in science. Secondly, does Civ 4 need all the expansions? I got it for free in the BNW sale mess-up and was thinking of trying it out. e: wow, all the expansions together are more than the base game + all the expansions. StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Jan 3, 2014 03:37
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Yeah, I have literally never had an issue with happiness outside warmongering except for slowing when I get my first few cities up, which isn't helped by Gandhi at all. e: so, I'm trying out early warmongering as China, and I just conquered a non-costal city on the other side of the continent (it's a capital, so I can't raze it.) Is building a road at all worth it? StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Jan 3, 2014 05:01
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The Polish just declared war on me, claiming they needed 'living space.'
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Jan 4, 2014 18:34
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Does Continents Plus have less resources or is that just a combination of confirmation bias and seeing the crazy 20-resource starts people post here?
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Jan 4, 2014 20:27
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Landsknects can move after purchasing, correct?
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Jan 6, 2014 07:04
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KKKlean Energy posted:Yeah. That saved my rear end in a run of the Africa scenario - one of my cities was poised to be over-run by hordes of enemies before my reinforcements could arrive, but I had an assload of cash, so I bought like 10 landschnects in a single turn. They got slaughtered, but they bogged down the enemy long enough for my army to come to the rescue. I love the landschnect mechanic. I really wish it scaled- Swiss mercs-Landschnects-Foreign Legion-Soldiers of Fortune or something like that. Still, in the MP game I'm playing that'll really save my rear end against an agressive but backward Japanese player.
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Jan 6, 2014 08:37
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Is there a good WWII in Europe mod?
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Jan 6, 2014 21:22
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Speedball posted:I like this idea--instead of Foreign Legions being a Freedom thing? Yeah, I like the idea of Volunteer Army but it's a little weird that the units you get from it are designed to be used on offense.
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Jan 7, 2014 05:21
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Mr Dog posted:I'm kinda beginning to get the hang of it now, and I'm really starting to like this game, but I have a few further questions. Just a heads-up, GE can't rush spaceship parts without a third-tier Order idea. Science is usually my bottleneck in a spaceship victory.
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Jan 9, 2014 19:10
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If you're going culture, just bank Faith and blow it all on musicians once you hit the Internet/are about to lose.
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Feb 16, 2014 06:35
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:If you're not naming your world congresses "WRESTLEMANIA [roman numeral]" then I don't know what to tell ya Illuminati 
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Feb 21, 2014 07:08
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The White Dragon posted:A Fort that you can use to landgrab anything anywhere is totally balanced. When it's a Great General's consumable ability. I do kinda wish there was a way to expand your borders outside of your cities, but I totally agree if it can be used offensively to grab enemy-held land.
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Feb 26, 2014 02:15
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It'd be interesting if you had like 2 or 3 basic types of units and then a bunch of support units you could stack or attach to them.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:57
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I've only played a little SMAC so this might just be me, but while the AI wasn't that great I did like the way it behaved- I could generally tell why it liked/disliked me, they didn't do the Civ 3 thing of marching settlers all the way through your territory to that one hex of tundra outside of your culture, it didn't backstab you needlessly or declare war for no goddamn reason.
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Apr 14, 2014 21:50
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As Venice, should I turn river jungles into farms?
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Apr 16, 2014 03:52
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There's no good thread for this so I'll ask it here: In Alpha Centurai is there a way to upgrade a unit to a type that's not a direct upgrade? I have a bunch of infantry I'd like to slap drop pods on but previous models had ECM jammers.
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Apr 16, 2014 06:53
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I've been trying to play this game in windowed mode on my laptop. The only resolutions it's giving me are 1360x768 and 1080x768. Both of these are too tall- they bury the bottom of the UI under the taskbar. Is there a way to get different resolution options?
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Apr 17, 2014 03:12
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Finished a Diplo victory on turn 324 as Venice with 52 pop in my capital Are there any factions that can go wide, even if it is kinda suboptimal? I just wanna mess around with a huge empire for a change.
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Apr 17, 2014 07:10
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Dynamite requires railroads, doesn't it?
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Apr 22, 2014 05:07
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Fhqwhgads posted:I love playing as Venice, having one or two annexed CS, being friends with everyone, and then as soon as I annex one more, it's a spiraling Denunciation chain followed by all-out war the next turn. The best part of Venice is listening to the narrator spin the Fourth Crusade into a good idea.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:30
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:
This is pretty huge, it took me a little while to realize that these are very important even if you're not going to be producing tourism. Between the inherent culture and the specialists it can double a city's culture, and it gets even better with the Hermitage.
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Apr 29, 2014 17:24
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What was the bug with the CN Tower again?
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Jun 10, 2014 21:39
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HappyHelmet posted:So has there been any word of further patches to come out for this game? I'm hoping Firaxis will do something to fix the policies before they totally abandon the game. Nope, complete edition is out and they've moved on to Beyond Earth by now.
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Can you build casbahs on resources? I forget. Actually, what's the best non-resource yield you can get from a tile? Casbah/Petra/gives 2F/2H/1G, plus 2 on flood plains and 2 on hills, plus faith from pantheon.
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