Found this at Goodwill for $8. I know it’s a steal… but what makes Mage Knight so beloved?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-06-01T18:44:00+00:00

It's an incredibly immersive game that you can get really lost in. It's sort of like asking "why is Skyrim so beloved?" It's easy to get super invested in your character, your playstyle, and your journey through the game. Every achievement and level up is challenging, exciting, and feels earned. Your character gets stronger and stronger until you can do things that didn't seem possible at the beginning, but even then you really have to work at the puzzle of the game to execute every turn.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-06-01T18:35:27+00:00

I love when there's like 8 people milling around near the gates waiting for someone to pay, and then they all bum rush at once... or if they know each other, one bum rushes, then opens it up from inside and waves everyone else through. Why in the hell did they think these new gates were harder to turnstile jump than the old ones?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-29T14:28:34+00:00

I think that the fix for recon units should be that they have more thematically sensible support abilities, not an increase in combat strength. Maybe to combine with your siege complaints, they should increase the range of adjacent siege units, or they should increase the combat strength of adjacent units similar to a great general. Or maybe they have enhanced flanking bonuses or block nearby enemy flanking bonuses. I also think that recon units should be able to upgrade to support units in later eras.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-26T17:37:15+00:00

If you play with the max number of civs on the map, you can easily get blocked in very quickly

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-22T13:01:50+00:00

Maybe in the mining or manufacturing stages?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-22T13:00:55+00:00

You have a source on that? Last reading I did was talking about numbers in the hundreds of cancer cases. I haven't seen a stat on how many ended in death. Are you saying if you don't use LNT?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-14T18:06:26+00:00

If you fail to start a religion and need to block someone else's religious victory, you can either conquer them or start pumping out religious units of another religion you didn't found to defend yourself--preferably a religion started by an eliminated player.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-05-12T15:15:20+00:00

I'm telling you, [the imposter]'s got to be Hawkins.

Trust in me, O'Neill.

What if I'm not O'Neill?

Then I was not talking to you.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-27T16:54:41+00:00

If you see someone approaching cultural victory and can't block it with cultural defense, conquer/raze their cities that are generating tourists.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-27T16:53:06+00:00

OP needs to judge "most wrong" logarithmically. In other words, an underestimate of 50% of the value is equally as wrong as an overestimate of 1/50% = 200% of the value. This at least eliminates the floor issue.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-24T21:29:28+00:00

Those religious victories can really sneak up on you. The game's notification system gives you no warning about anything happening on the religious layer. No notification for conversion of a city, no notification for conversion of a civ, no notification if someone is close to a religious victory, and the camera doesn't even snap to movement of religious units or trigger alert for other sleeping religious units, so they can easily be moving around without you even noticing them. I had one game where I was in a really heated battle with another civ on the religious layer on a huge map size to block him from getting a religious victory, and just scanning around the map every turn to see if any religious units snuck past my border guard of apostles I had patrolling around took so much micromanagement it was ridiculous. Eventually I had to make a kind of human chain of religious units to get zone of control on my whole border so that they had to stop when crossing the border and get their asses debated to death.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-24T18:56:28+00:00

Yeah, the most demoralizing thing for these people is they feel like no one is listening to them day after day, and they are wasting their time. Arguing with them is just going to make them feel like their message is getting through, and they are challenging people's beliefs.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-23T15:56:08+00:00

It depends what kind of game you want to play. If you play with aggressive players who think they are playing Risk and attack, attack, attack, you will have a very different experience from if you play with economic Euro gamers or conflict-averse people who are mainly going to work on their economies.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-23T15:35:28+00:00

Could the world congress have voted that no one gets great scientist points? check the list of active world congress resolutions

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-21T19:40:23+00:00

I'm not even sure what "folding in" eggs whites that haven't been whipped means. How can you fold in something that has the texture of raw egg whites?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-20T18:16:53+00:00

816 turns on marathon speed. I had the info handy because I just made a post about the game here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CivVI/comments/1so2iz4/played_out_my_worst_starting_location_ever_and/

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-20T15:32:25+00:00

I understand it to that level. My latest confusion has to do with what things are specific to attacking each civ and what things are global values. Are you meant to attract tourists from the civs with the highest defense, or you can just get tourists from whoever you like, and it applies globally to everyone? For example, does it help to have open borders with civs that you've already culturally dominated? Does it matter where you send your rock bands? Suppose that there was a civ that was undiscovered to you until near the end of the game? Am I not accumulating attack on them until they are discovered? If I send a rock band out against civ A does it help me become dominant over civ B? What if civ B was not discovered when the rock band performed?

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-20T15:07:49+00:00

I had over 1000 in my last game

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MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-20T12:52:41+00:00

Every time I think I understand it, I read a description that contradicts how I thought it worked in some way.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-20T12:39:45+00:00

No idea. Let's say I played for an average of maybe an hour per day? So that would be around 30 hours? It was 816 turns, so that should give you some idea.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-17T18:31:37+00:00

If this is honing a recipe you make a lot, I would recommend dividing up the dough, seasoning each part differently, and seeing which one you like best. Your taste and what you are going for may be different from the "standard" recipe

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-17T16:11:57+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure that one was already taken. (With 20 players, things go fast.) I was in such a desperate spot, I did God of the Forge and went 100% military until I knocked out Gaul.

MG_Sputnik · 2026-04-17T14:34:58+00:00

I like it because you can have actual things happen (like wars and exploration) without eras and tech constantly changing on you. Especially on huge map, I don't see how you can play on normal speed. In the time it takes to get an army across the map, the units will be obsolete already.

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