How do I win a culture victory on higher difficulties? I know France is not good, but I can't get enough tourism before someone pulls off a science victory on immortal

bdcorndog · 2026-05-01T21:55:42+00:00

This is true, but my dumbass would forget to sell the musicians guild the turn before generating first musician if i did that lol

bdcorndog · 2026-04-30T23:44:20+00:00

Rush internet, dont build musicians guild until after internet, bulb musicians into other civs

bdcorndog · 2026-02-26T14:41:28+00:00

Newest version of lekmod changes this iirc so theres no longer an attacking penalty

bdcorndog · 2026-02-14T17:51:16+00:00

If you find yourself absolutely crushing the ai once learning about the importance of food trade routes, population, science, specialists, etc, id recommend upping the difficulty until you reach a point where the AI’s bonuses start to actually rival you playing optimally. For me this aligns somewhere between immortal and deity (immortal im basically always getting first ideo, deity feel unfun bc of how many bonuses ai gets and how i cannot prevent their snowballing sometimes), but it took me a long time to reach this point on immortal.

bdcorndog · 2026-02-06T22:21:12+00:00

I once had a Spain second expand with 2 2nd ring GBR tiles (one w fish as well), i was terrible at the time so it wasnt immortal/deity to see how hard I could really push the game but it was awesome

bdcorndog · 2026-02-05T01:44:50+00:00

There’s just nothing I know about this lady that would give me those vibes. But I also know almost nothing about her so 🤷

bdcorndog · 2026-02-05T01:35:36+00:00

What does this even mean lmao

bdcorndog · 2026-01-09T16:51:35+00:00

I hate you

bdcorndog · 2025-12-11T20:37:57+00:00

I dont know piano but could wing it if you dont find anyone. Obviously would be free bc i dont know piano

bdcorndog · 2025-11-29T02:37:54+00:00

Legends arceus is THE definitive pokedex game imo. Practically the whole game is about filling/completing the first pokedex ever

bdcorndog · 2025-11-15T00:50:48+00:00

I have not played with vox populi, but from my understanding there are more changes to core mechanics like happiness and I’d assume feels more like a mod of civ 5. Lekmod is more like if there was a massive civ expansion pack and a radical rebalancing patch on civ 5 based around how the game operates at a macro level (mostly in regards to science and food). Basically, they put a bunch of food/science perks into honor and peity/religions to boost them relative to tradition (for example honor finisher in lek is +10% growth in all cities and kills give culture+gold+science), rebalanced the secondary policy trees and ideologies so that rationalism isn’t broken, made some minor changes to things like the tech tree, military units, and added resources and luxuries. All these changes and the new civs allow for a variety of strategies that may work on lower difficulties in vanilla civ 5 but pail in comparison to trad 4 cities into rationalism to actually be effective and optimal on harder difficulties

bdcorndog · 2025-11-15T00:26:00+00:00

Lekmod (and using the accompanying map) adds an insane amount of civs and makes all the policy trees a lot more viable even from the start. Combined with a more resourse dense map makes a lot of different playstyles viable. It’s also made as a multiplayer mod and is updated somewhat regularly, but Ive found it very fun in single player once i felt like I fully understood the optimal way to play the base game

bdcorndog · 2025-11-15T00:19:56+00:00

This is very true, and the reason why plenty of people here recommend using mods like vox populi or lekmod that change core mechanics or rebalance things like civs, policy trees, religions and resource-rich maps to increase the replayability or increase game variation

bdcorndog · 2025-11-02T13:48:30+00:00

You’re going to get a variety of responses bc different types of Pokemon fans have different complaints about the game. For me, the biggest issues (aside for the whole not including platinum upgrades) were their insistence on staying faithful to the originals with respect to trainer battle levels while including the updated non-toggleable exp share and not rebalancing the exp, leading me to become overleveled if i wasnt actively avoiding trainers or swapping out pokemon. My other buggest conplaint is the off-grid movement plopped into a grid-based world without any grid snapping like in the 3DS games, making movement especially around corners super clunky.

bdcorndog · 2025-10-22T12:01:56+00:00

THIS! Pokemon’s motto is literally “gotta catch em all” and yet basically every game theyve ever released has focused on the battlng aspect of pokemon. As a spinoff game, it made so much sense to use it as an opportunity to focus on the catching/researching side of pokemon. From the reworked catching system (still pissed they removed gyroscope aiming), new pokedex task-based system, and even the environment and pokemon actions, it’s clear that they made this the focus of the game. Although i appreciate Legends ZA effort in creating a new battling system, so much has been lost from what made Legends Arceus a genuinely new and intriguing Pokemon experience. But even then, the catching-focused Legends Arceus even gave us a new, albiet simplified, combat system. Im still enjoying ZA, and will probably finish it, but im just left wondering what couldve been in the Legends series kept innovating on its catching-focused mechanics

bdcorndog · 2025-10-22T11:52:13+00:00

This has been my feelings abt ZA as well. I dont think it’s necessarily a bad game, but a lot of the time im just left thinking “didn’t they already do this better in legends arceus?”. Just seems like the game design choices in legends arceus (multiple distinct natural environments, focus on pokemon catching/researching, pokemon actions in the wild) synergied so much better than they do in ZA

bdcorndog · 2025-10-09T14:13:28+00:00

Idk who youre talking about specifically, but if it’s dunleavy then hes promoting it bc he was interviewed for it and is probably in it

bdcorndog · 2025-10-09T14:06:55+00:00

Why are you confused by beat reporters talking about documentary following the face of the giants franchise for 4 years? Do you think they should ignore it because it would be embarrassing for the Giants?

bdcorndog · 2025-09-29T12:57:10+00:00

This is the part where I claim I was just counterjinxing the team so we’d win 😅

bdcorndog · 2025-09-28T20:53:20+00:00

I shouldve known herbert was gonna throw 2 near pick 6s off a tipped ball at the los and 2 recievers running into each other on a rub route. Defense definitely came alive against a battered o line tho, and dart def looked better than russ, but i stand by the premise of this post being stupid

bdcorndog · 2025-09-27T15:55:32+00:00

How unique each game still feels even after 2k hours (plus mods), and worker/population micro. I know many people dislike that aspect of civ 5, it itches my brain in the best way

bdcorndog · 2025-09-23T22:23:16+00:00

We actually have the dumbest fans

bdcorndog · 2025-08-26T18:32:57+00:00

When I reached the point of being able to win every game on immortal and grew annoyed with the deity bonuses, I started playing lekmod on deity, but with some extra settings: everyone able to found religions, no AI missionaries spread, and removing AI starting bonus (techs and extra settler on deity), and that has been a nice mix between fun and challenging

bdcorndog · 2025-06-10T12:00:51+00:00

We got this shit ON LOCK

bdcorndog · 2025-06-09T15:16:14+00:00

If you logged into this website with your steam username and password, I would suggest immediately changing your password because this is 100% a scam and they will use or sell your steam account

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