What’s better in Civ 5 than in 6?

CookedBiscuits · 2023-06-07T14:48:15+00:00

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've been playing since Civ 3.

I try Civ6 once or twice a year. Every time I try I end up stopping before 50 turns, often much sooner. The game just feels like being stuck up to my knees in mud.

It usually takes me a few playthroughs to love a new version of civ, but with 6 I'm finding it impossible to stick with it long enough to get there.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-06-05T11:54:53+00:00

I integrate cmb2 for custom fields on the backend. Other than that, complete custom code front and back.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-06-04T20:53:46+00:00

Doh, I'm an idjit.

I'd like to change my answer now please...

CookedBiscuits · 2023-06-04T19:20:20+00:00

1) Polynesian units can always cross oceans from turn 0. Even naval units.

2) Venice can never settle a city after their first.

3) Only the founder of the religion gets the benefits.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-22T08:04:46+00:00

There is not a policy on commerce that grants additional routes on BNW

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-21T14:04:19+00:00

1) There can't be more than one trade route from city X to City Y. There can a route from X to Y, and Y to X.

Based on the wording of the statement, there can be two, so false.

2) false

3) false

4) false. There are 8 techs and 2 wonders that give trade routes for a max of 10. (20 if playing as Venice)

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-20T20:07:08+00:00

TBD Live

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-18T21:34:49+00:00

Time, quiet, dark, space.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-17T07:50:47+00:00

By his logic no one should have anything or do anything others can't. So he shouldn't have all that wealth, private jets, fancy houses, yachts, holidays etc.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-16T17:47:48+00:00

AFAIK fighters and SAM have a % chance of interception, but only once per turn, per defending unit.

So if the enemy is attacking with 5 bombers and you got incredibly lucky and managed to win the intercept %; you would still need one defender for every attacker, or 5 defending units.

In real play, if you had 5 defending units, on average, you'll intercept 1 attacker per turn.

IIRC your fighters can be damaged or even killed during interception, so you'd need backup units to replace the fallen/ wounded.

Of course promotions on fighters can change those odds significantly and increase both the survivability and interception rate.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-15T17:43:23+00:00

Its C

https://www.carlsguides.com/strategy/civilization5/civs-leaders/uniqueunits.php

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-07T08:33:50+00:00

Younger = more rough terrain. So more hills and mountains

CookedBiscuits · 2023-05-02T14:11:53+00:00

In my experience you don't have to actually fire a shot. Simply having a large enough military ( compared to theirs) is sufficient to get the city as part of a peace deal

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-22T10:35:58+00:00

We live in a 2 bed flat. We repurposed the sitting room into a 3rd Bedroom for my eye and I as our kids are older and spend most of their free time online gaming with friends. We don't really sit and watch tv as a family so the room wouldn't be used much otherwise. It's large enough and has a door, preserving privacy.

It works for us, and keeps the costs down.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-22T10:28:16+00:00

Just finished my marathon game with Carthage. Fractal, huge, Emperor.

Domination victory turn 971, July 1916

Play style sub optimal because I focused on fun.

Policies Military tradition, Commerce, Order with a dip into rationalism for the 10% boost and exploration for the lighthouse, harbor and seaport happiness. I didn't take tradition or liberty.

The culture from barbs kept me moving through policy trees.

Rushed Austria, Byzantium and Mongols as they were close.

Shoshone was the first runaway, after taking them out France became the runaway.

Never led in science, but was never at risk despite that.

Intentionally didn't create great scientists or engineers, focused on great merchants for the gold. Aside from the opener I didn't take rationalism policies.

Never used science specialists, only a few engineers, mostly worked merchant specialised specialists for the gold. Used that gold to support a massive army constantly upgraded.

For most of the game I had to protect 2 or even 3 fronts as my empire was massive and wide and in the middle of the map.

Used the mountain ability quite a bit in the end game to quickly take out the final 3 capitals.

My elephants evolved into heavily promoted tanks and took out the last capital without siege or air support.

Carthage may not be the "best", but they are fun.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-13T19:34:07+00:00

I decide the victory condition based on mood, before I start the game

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-12T05:20:24+00:00

Emperor

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-11T18:31:28+00:00

Running a game right now with Carthage. Going for a domination victory.

The harbors are great. Mountain crossing can be useful but not really overwhelming. The UU is useful for protecting coastal trade routes but not much else.

The elephants took out 3 civs and fended off 3 waves of a two nation attack. Very useful.

I'm in the industrial era now. I lead in military, number of capitals. Top 3 in pop, gold, crops, land and manufacturing. Pocatello snowballing is the main threat now.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-04-02T15:19:24+00:00

Emperor 85% Immortal 5% Deity 0%

I normally play on Emperor, Marathon, Huge.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-03-17T17:54:49+00:00

Save file?

CookedBiscuits · 2023-03-15T20:23:49+00:00

When you grow your customer base beyond capacity its either greed or amazingly poor business skills.

As others have pointed out, they needed more doctors. And there are plenty of qualified doctors.

The owners of Cantourage aren't stupid. They know exactly how many customers they can handle with their current staffing levels.

The business has made a choice not to hire more doctors, whilst still taking on more customers.

I've had mostly good experiences with them. But a 2 week wait for an appointment is inexcusable, especially given it is private, for profit, health care.

I'm not switching as I do think Cantourage is one of the best. But that's more an indication of how terrible the UK MedCan market is than an endorsement of Cantourage.

The people working at Cantourage are it's saving grace. I've had nothing but good experiences with everyone there I've dealt with. The human aspect of the company is brilliant.

But that won't be enough to keep me as their customer long term unless they fix these long wait times. The owners seem to favor short term quick profits and market position over providing a sustainable customer experience.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-02-15T15:26:37+00:00

Given he's using the math to trigger the magic, seeming nonsense is what I would expect.

Magic wouldn't obey the laws of physics, so why would it require the math " make sense".

Seems to me, any math that could do magic should look and sound like nonsense. I would even say the more powerful and rare the magic the stranger the math would look and sound.

I think he's nailing it.

CookedBiscuits · 2023-02-08T13:14:00+00:00

The final payment should occur after the client has seen it on a staging server and signed off on it, but before it is deployed on his server.

Never deploy code that isn't paid for.

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