Civilization V + DLC's, G&K, BNW - Page 161

On July 31 2013 12:33 Excalibur_Z wrote:


I'm sure that factors into the start bias, doesn't it?

On July 31 2013 23:59 xDaunt wrote:

I always knew that civs had certain built-in start biases for terrain types (jungle, desert, coastal, etc). However, what I am talking about here is that the Americans seem to get a lot of starts with high food and high production tiles. I'm seeing a lot of wheat and hills with my American starts. However, when I play someone like the Arabs, I hardly see any hills or any food bonuses outside of a lone cow. What I am wondering is whether the devs manipulated the quality of starts for certain civs that are perceived as having weaker UAs/UUs than the others. Frankly, having a good, high food and high production capital site with potentially one good second city site is more important for winning than anything else.

For example, in my current American game, I have a coastal capital on a river that has 2 wheat, 2 salt, 1 fish, 1 horses, and a bunch of hills. My second city is arguably more ridiculous. It has 2 wheat, 4 fish, 3 salt, 1 cow, a bunch of hills, and is also a coastal start. It's pretty hard to lose with two cities like those.

Just as a side note, I settled my third city next to Kilimanjaro and am cranking out high-altitude trained minuteman for some autocratic shenanigans.

On July 31 2013 19:29 rezoacken wrote:To be honest i think they should just remove the city backfire when you attack with melee and most of my problems with them would go away..

On August 01 2013 01:19 Torte de Lini wrote:
I never attack a city unless I have a shitload of catapults/trebuchets/cannons.

I agree with the suggestion

On August 01 2013 02:44 Muecke wrote:
I just finished a Game with Marokko. I had to start War early because Babylon expanded in my territory and Zulu just declared War on me. So from Round 150 on everybody else hated me! I never had any friendships declarations the whole game. I could not get anyone to like me.
So I was forced into conquering everybody, but man the world congress made it hard. The embargoed me, citystates so I couldn't really the marokko-ultimate.
But the fun thing is. I won a Dimplomatic victory, thanks to all the citystates. :D
I started the game yesterday and played 9hrs straight on the first session. Its crazy how addicting this game is.

On August 01 2013 03:14 rezoacken wrote:


Congrats and not wanting to diminish your game but this is a prime example of why I will probably deactivate Diplo Victory for now until fixed I feel its often an easy way out fr the player or a pain in the ass when some AI is close to it before any other possible victories.

On August 01 2013 03:40 xDaunt wrote:
The only problem with disabling diplomatic victories is that it skews the AI's behavior towards forsaking city-states, making it too easy for the play to gain and maintain alliances.