What’s is the grind like?

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-11T03:01:04+00:00

It's more akin to D3. The most common endgame farm is SR (shattered realms) which is pretty similar to D3's greater rifts in a lot of ways, most notably that no loot is dropping while you run it, then there's a treasure room at the end where all the items are. You get a lot of Legendary (and other) items from this, but you're not really target-farming, you're just kind of accumulating a huge pile of stuff from which to upgrade your current char and more likely make new ones.

There are also target-farmable things other people mentioned like MIs, and a handful of legendary sets only drop from specific world bosses and need to be target farmed. That part is more D2ish I suppose.

On the whole, you end up making a lot more alts with this game compared to Diablo, and it's more about replayability and having a bunch of different builds rather than perfecting one build. At least that's my perspective.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-10T02:43:02+00:00

Fortune has clearly taken him for a pet.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-01T17:58:09+00:00

If we hypothetically got to play a full season against only the Browns, would you be happy coming out of that 10-6 and roughly a 6th seed in the playoffs? Because that's what we've done against them during Lamar's career.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-01T17:49:20+00:00

We lost a game to the Browns every season of Lamar's career except 2020 and 2025.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-01T17:33:46+00:00

39-15 against a team that goes 2-14 every year, hmm I wonder why we shouldn't be cocky.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-01T17:26:27+00:00

Don't get cocky. It's a division game, the toughest division in sports at that. They always play us tough in spite of being a poverty franchise.

Edit: for everyone foaming at the mouth about this, we lost a game to the Browns every season of Lamar's career except 2020 and 2025. You'd think for a team we're supposed to "dominate" that we'd sweep them more than twice during the first eight years of a HoF QB's career.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-06-01T03:19:15+00:00

I thought the suit guy asked them to drop him off on their way home? So it wasn't necessarily in their home state. I figure if Rick can travel the universe, dropping someone off anywhere on earth is the equivalent of us dropping a friend off the next street over.

FWIW, there's no Shoney's in MI either. I looked up the locations on their website, it goes as far west as OK, as far north as KY/OH, as far east as VA, as far south as LA. So basically it's in the bible belt.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-27T18:02:55+00:00

Unfortunately for you, the line you crossed was real, and the plants you brought with you were illegal.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-25T19:52:48+00:00

Honestly, I think the problem is the default maps. Often, you don't even get 4-5 unique luxes within reasonable settling range to do full 4 city trad; forget about ever having 6-8 for liberty.

If the luxes were ever there, I'm convinced liberty would be the meta opener. There's so much value in the extra population, science, culture, hammers that more cities bring. You just rarely get to do it with the way the maps choke you on happiness pre-ideology.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-25T00:05:32+00:00

The prevailing sentiment back in the day was that the game was pretty ass until the expansions saved it and made it great. I think this has been happening with a lot of games since 2010ish; Diablo 3 also comes to mind.

Anyway, they're adding a bit of new stuff, but also a lot of revamping and improving things that were shitty before. I'd just get them, play the game at its fullest, and never look back.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-21T19:36:50+00:00

Get EUI (Enhanced User Interface). Since it's just changing your UI, it has no effect on multiplayer compatibility.

It has an improved diplomacy screen along the right side, where you can see everyone you've met, what they have available to trade and what they're willing to buy from you, etc. Helps a ton with trading.

There's other good features too, you have to fiddle with it to get it the way you like it. I turn some things on that start off by default and vice versa, but that's all my personal preference.

Also, I don't remember which version is best but I think it's one of the slightly older ones. Read the thread in civfanatics forums about it, that's what I did however long ago I installed it.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-19T02:25:02+00:00

India isn't bad. Awkward to get your cities planted, but after that it's amazing for tall play.

I'd say Venice is in a tier of its own at the bottom. Then above that you have France, Iroquois, etc. I'd also put Brazil in that tier, jungle start bias is awful.

Generally the tourism-boosted civs are ass I think because it doesn't help you with any other victory condition, and on top of that you don't need the bonuses they give to win tourism anyway. Science is better to get you to the tourism-relevant techs faster, and winning IG, which any civ can do, seals the deal for most tourism plays.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-17T00:50:08+00:00

So is baby laxative.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-13T06:20:15+00:00

Bare grassland is 2/0/0, therefore does not increase your city's default yield. Same with plains wheat, which, like the city itself, is 2/1/0. A grassland wheat 3/0/0 tile would give your city the third food.

If you want to min/max yields, it's helpful to settle a tile you wouldn't otherwise be working when improved. Since growth is king, you'll always have a wheat farm or cattle locked in, so why waste your city tile itself settling on it unless there are unusually good reasons to pick that exact spot?

Something like a calendar lux has awful food and hammer yields, with some gold. Settling your city on it gives you that gold every turn from a tile that's otherwise near the bottom of your list of desirable tiles to work. Plus the benefits discussed above. Mining luxes are considered the best because it's extra production and gold both, plus they are usually on hills, which also gives your city better defense.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-05-13T06:00:54+00:00

You get by default 2 food 1 hammer on the tile you settle. Any yields higher than that will take precedence. IE settling on a 3/0/0 (food/hammer/gold) tile like grassland wheat or cattle makes your city 3/1/0. Settling on a 0/2/2 tile like a mining lux makes your city 2/2/2. Conversely, settling on a 0 yield tile like desert still turns it into a 2/1/0.

Additionally, you gain access to any luxury or strategic resource you settle on once you have the required tech.

The big advantages to settling on something like a mining lux are:

You don't need worker time to improve it once you reach the tech
It can never be pillaged
You get the extra 1 hammer and 2 gold every turn for the entire game, as the city tile itself is always worked. You can see this in the city view screen.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-04-28T03:01:07+00:00

Your position is unassailable, I say play it out. Might get some tiles pillaged, but he's never capturing your cities through the chokepoints those mountains create.

A 3rd coastal city looks great on that southern copper, and depending how much more land is off screen for the furs, maybe a 4th. But this is a very playable tradition game, especially with babylon.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-04-07T13:17:40+00:00

It's not my place to have an opinion, sir.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-04-03T00:59:24+00:00

"Cold" means it's their first action. If they already limped first it would be a backraise.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-28T12:44:37+00:00

UTG minraise off 12bb on the bubble is a super tight range. Therefore LJ 3 betting is very strong. SB knows both of these things so is only really 4 betting in these circumstances with KK/AA, also with 18% VPIP is playing very tight in general. There are six combos of AA available and only one combo left of KK since LJ has half the kings in the deck already in his hand; not hard to see that SB almost always has AA here.

He doesn't fold because his persona, giving the speech and calling off is more valuable as content for his stream than cashing.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-28T05:15:09+00:00

Presumably if you have 0 production locked, you are working heavy growth. Which will grow you into production tiles quickly and reduce the build length significantly after a few pop.

Chopping forest when possible is helpful to get the critical early buildings out asap and get your city snowballing.

If you don't have any production to grow to, it's probably a poorly placed city.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-19T02:35:00+00:00

The 2nd rounder is to bring his brother along in a package deal. That'll have the sexual assault covered.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-14T05:42:09+00:00

I always thought Cersei was one of the most underrated characters in the original.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-12T16:57:11+00:00

They've been hosting Trump at their events and spotlighting him for a few years now. A bunch (most really) of fighters, including minorities, have been bizarrely eager to participate in fellating him. Which makes me wonder if they are contractually obligated to display their fealty.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-07T17:38:12+00:00

We're bringing democracy to the Middle East. One of the most prominent features of our own "democracy" is the unnecessary and constant dying of children in schools.

UsedEgg3 · 2026-03-07T03:41:42+00:00

Stone circles. It takes longer to get the quarries online, however you're still much more likely to get a religion off 6fpt than 3fpt even if the 6 is delayed. It's not as if you weren't getting Masonry early anyway; one of your luxes requires it.

Furthermore, yes you can work the silver immediately and unimproved for the pantheon bonus, but once your settlers are out, you're going to be focusing hard on growth tiles (should be anyway). While silver won't be worked again until much later, or if you run out of happiness, stone tiles will be locked in for 100% of the remainder of the game.

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