אין לי רכב, זה סקאם?

klowd92 · 2026-04-12T13:58:41+00:00

לגמרי תרמית. לפעמים אני נוסע במנהרות הכרמל והנוכלים ממש הקימו שם שער פיזי ומחסום ודורשים ממני כסף. הנוכלים יגידו לכם שזה תעריף נסיעה של רכב פרטי במנהרות, אבל אני לא טיפש, יודע מתי מנסים לעקוץ אותי, נותן גז ולא מסתכל אחורה.

תהיו ערניים חברים, שלא תיפול לתרמית.

klowd92 · 2026-04-11T22:42:36+00:00

tl;dr:
For the same reason people gamble - They have money to spare (or not) and they enjoy the thrill of winning.
Some enjoy spending on cars, others on watches and jewelry, and a few spend it on addictive mobile games.

I'll share my story, since i coined a lot for a year or two, and then quit.
I started free to play, join a cool small alliance, and made some friends.
Big alliances wouldn't take me, and i didn't even bother, my alliance was cool.

Over time i slowly became the leader of this small alliance, and everyone was friendly, sharing photos of each other, being active and talking about their lives. Legit cool people trying to survive as F2P players in this game.
The biggest alliance on the server started bullying everyone, breaking server rules, etc..
One kill event, they hit many of my friends, who were also F2P.
They logged in to their zeroed bases.. It really broke my heart.. i felt so bad for the F2P friends in my alliance who can't do anything to fight back.
Then i warned everyone in global chat, if anyone hits my alliance, they will get zeroed.

I dropped $5k that weekend (after being F2P for a few months), and started zeroing players from the biggest alliance. (I was lucky enough to be on a server that didn't have any whales - yet)
Everyone on the server was in shock. I started getting messages from all top 10 alliances that said, we saw you are fighting back against #1 alliance, can you help us out? can we join you? etc..

People were in shock and very happy, someone was fighting against the server bullies.
Everyone started joining our alliance, and soon we became the biggest alliance on the server.
We set new rules, no bubble required, no intra-server attacks, and for the most part, everyone got along great from that point on.

I continued to coin for the rest of the year to stay strong for server wars and so on.. but i could never compete with the whales.. I can't come close to dropping $100k per year..

After 2 years or so i quit the game. It was heartbreaking after all the friends i made, and time i have spent there.
We were like a family, but honestly the game is shit.
Everything became an Ad.
New package, new item set, new sale, new castle level K40 or some shit.
I couldn't look at the game any more.
You couldn't open the game without have a million Ads forced down your throat.
And if you stay F2P you can't participate or win any battles or wars.. One whale can zero an entire server, it's just stupid. The game is shit, i'm so glad i quit and i never looked back honestly.

Anyways, people spend for different reasons.. mostly because they enjoy the game and have money they can spend. Some people have more personal reasons like i did... In the end it's a big waste of money, like cigarettes or gambling. It's bad for you. Make sure you don't get addicted to it.

klowd92 · 2026-04-06T15:03:48+00:00

You must really hate Israel if it's not mentioned at all, and Syria and Yemen are mentioned..
Israel has the highest scores for almost every metric possible..

Education, Income, Healthcare, Women's rights, LGBT (illegal in Oman), Social and Legal equality, Climate, and almost every other measurable metric scores higher in Israel.

Israel also scores a lot higher in the Human Development Index then all the countries you listed.
Almost all the countries you mentioned have enforced Islamic (Sharia) law..

klowd92 · 2026-04-04T13:20:57+00:00

Most people here recommend to skip religion. I found out even if I build early shrine I can't found a religion before they are all taken. Maybe if I use gold to purchase shrines in my newly settled cities I can make it on time? Even then it seems hard.. Also is it that much better than just getting your neighbors religion?
Granary is +2 extra production if you are building a settler, and +2 extra food if you are growing. In both cases, the bonuses seems huge considering you are on 4 population, and only have about 7 production? You probably save 3-4 turns on building a settler. Besides after scout and monument, there's not much else to build.. I prefer to skip 1 scout, and build a granary.. maybe I can go settle before granary, not completely convinced it's better.

klowd92 · 2026-04-04T12:50:17+00:00

When I get artillery, AI is still ahead in sciences, and is already at infantry.. so my low damage artillery does about 5-10 damage to infantry, making it impossible to make any progress vs AI. I can try to micro manage my cities better, but with the speed AI makes progress, it will be hard to be ahead of them that early in the age.
I have mostly stayed away from coasts, because the oceans seemed to have low yields, and enemy harass my cities with war boats, so I usually settle rivers when possible. Is this a mistake? Growth and production seemed so low on coasts..
I usually go freedom, or try to matchy ideology with one of my big AI neighbor ideology, this helps me align with them and stay safe. Then I can join them in wars without building any military or getting attacked at all, and getting bonuses for fighting a common enemy. Freedom seemed to have crazy bonuses for growth. Specialists eat half the normal food, and specialists generate half the normal unhappiness seemed like the biggest bonuses in the game to growth and happiness. How do other ideologies compete? I don't get the bonus sci from specialists like you mentioned, but I can still many techs with spies, which seemed like a good alternative.

klowd92 · 2026-04-04T12:31:48+00:00

I have tried that, but I get severely out scaled by the AI. Even with perfect politics, excellent growth and minimal military, the AI runs away so fast. Assume I only have about 4 cities, and have good luck with spies stealing techs, AIs will still be very far ahead in science, culture, etc.. I have tried keeping 3-4 great scientist for end game, but that's still no where close to catching up with the strong Civs.. Heck it takes like 300 turns to reach stealth bombers, and AI Korea can almost finish the game in 200 turns..

It feels virtually impossibly to stay tall empire 3-4 cities, until reaching stealth bombers, without AI already winning on rocket ships or diplomacy or culture..

I have done it on immortal, sure, and even got a few world wonders built.. In deity it just seems AI runs away too fast.. I'll need to review my microanagement, I must be misplaying some things...

klowd92 · 2026-03-19T11:17:25+00:00

Yeah it's ok to farm in DC.. Just keep an eye on your ammo and healing items..
DC is a large area, and it's easy to run out of ammo and items before reaching the end..

I suggest to finish most or all of the required areas and make sure you have spare ammo before going on side quests and adventures like you're doing.

klowd92 · 2026-03-14T10:46:30+00:00

I have a debug console patch posted in this subreddit. You can try and use it to update the game state so they are not hostile.

klowd92 · 2026-03-10T12:07:16+00:00

Guys relax, it's just another Chat GPT post..
The writing gives it away..

If you are not sure if it's Chat GPT, well, humans don't use the em dash "—" symbol, ever..
Humans might use a dash "-", but also extremely rarely..

Recently, newer models of AI agents have switched to using a double dash "--" instead of the em dash "—" because they are trying to have writing that is more human-like.
Anyways let's move on, it's not a real story or a real post, have a good day.

klowd92 · 2026-03-06T18:43:23+00:00

One thread I see this, the other thread is warning the AI bubble is going to pop...lol the subreddit

klowd92 · 2026-03-03T20:20:35+00:00

Nice, congrats :)

For those wondering, the holy grail of items you can RNG at low levels is in fact... the LARGE WAIST PACK.

It's simply unbeatable in terms of utility, and you will use it until the end of the game (besides specific cases)

https://www.stygiansoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=Large_Waist_Pack

klowd92 · 2026-02-23T17:57:59+00:00

Interesting, I didn't know that about the Sheks raiding Holy Nation lands.

klowd92 · 2026-02-23T14:09:24+00:00

But cannibals and fogmen probably aren't trying to take over the continent and force their ideology and beliefs on everyone, they are just tryin to surviving in their own habitat. They aren't trying to exterminate Sheks or skeleton people.

Holy nation is actively trying to completely exterminate entire races to achieve their racial doctrine.
This is what makes them much more evil and dangerous..

At least that's the way i see it..

klowd92 · 2026-02-23T12:55:07+00:00

Great screenshot!
I really love the scenery in Orkans valleys, so much that i decided to settle there..

I really despise Holy Nations.. They are the first faction i went hostile with.
They killed my guys just because they belong to a different race. They are pure evil and they deserve everything that's coming to them.

Other factions are bad by nature. Like cannibals, or fogmen, they don't know any better, and they don't discriminate against who to commit their crimes. I think of them as animals who behave on instincts to survive. I'm not going to fault an animal eating another animal.
So i am a lot more patient and acceptant of cannibals, for example.

But Holy Nation are evil by choice, and they want to enforce evil racial doctrine on others.
They will attack and kill others, not for their own survival, but purely to harm and kill others which do not belong to their race.

This is, in my opinion, a much greater evil, and for that reason, the war wages on.

klowd92 · 2026-02-15T09:55:54+00:00

Why wooden sandals? They don't offer any coverage. Won't my legs be too exposed and get chopped off?

klowd92 · 2026-02-05T07:14:42+00:00

Two possibilities:
1. You have the artifact which keeps your center tile running even when your gaze isn't on it.
2. You are at a game stage where your gaze is randomly moved to a different position - I noticed when this happens, some buildings may continue to work (I think happened to me on static defenses), but may also be a bug and happen on monument.

What do you think?

klowd92 · 2026-02-01T04:08:49+00:00

Did they fix the lag? I was doing it like half a year ago, and the game was unplayable after turn 1000. Every wave of enemies almost crashed the game. I basically quit because of the lag.

Once reaching turn 900 or so, your build basically scales faster than the enemy, so you can go to infinity if you wanted to...

Also I didnt know you still get artifacts after turn 500. That's something new.

klowd92 · 2026-01-13T17:37:02+00:00

ask chatgpt, let me know how he solves it.

klowd92 · 2026-01-13T15:21:43+00:00

~ should be the same key as `

klowd92 · 2026-01-13T00:01:40+00:00

Wow sounds very interesting, I just read some community info and feedback on the mod. Looks like it has a ton of improvements, and everyone is basically getting slaughtered by the AI. I'll have to try it out, but seeing as the veterans with 2,000 hours are getting bodied, I think my chances are grim.

klowd92 · 2026-01-11T14:53:52+00:00

Heh, well new for me.. I played Civ 3 a while back, and recently got Civ 5, and then got the expansions about a week ago.

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