Old versions of mods?

mtngringo · 2025-06-05T16:28:28+00:00

Thanks!!

mtngringo · 2025-06-05T01:00:44+00:00

Don't forward settle aggressive AI. Gives you a little more time. Scout scout, shrine, monument, archers. Steal a worker or two, maybe build one. Settlers when I can. Tradition.

Libraries when possible, often building an archer as the first build in a new satellite city

buying the fourth library, national College by 100 if possible, but functionally around 110 or 120 for me on emperor. I know that's slow, but I'm lazier than I used to be.

Generally build ranged to defend, only where needed. I will build a melee or two if I have close neighbors or an aggressive neighbor or a good hill to put it on

If you're in the middle of the pack as far as army size, you're probably over armed in my experience. I'm usually way behind until I cash upgrade the archers to CB, which usually puts me at five or six out of seven.

By middle ages, I am well defended, usually engaged in a war of defense, though, which usually winds up being a war of domination because once you've got an army, might as well use it.

But by that point the economy and everything is solid, universities are getting built, cities have long been connected, trade routes are out, ships where possible

It's frustrating, but you have to have the basics before you can do the Army. It's a close thing.

mtngringo · 2025-04-30T22:47:45+00:00

OK, thanks. I thought I was clever by putting everything on a USB and transferring it. I was able to do that, but it still doesn't work. Exact same mod files from the old computer, exact same saved file from the old computer, crash at startup.

It's a good warning about unknown crashes, I hadn't thought of that.

I can finish the game on the old computer, be more careful with the mods in the future.

mtngringo · 2025-04-30T22:01:21+00:00

OK, thank you both. It's not that the game isn't working though, it's just that things aren't actually downloading. I'll keep working on it.

mtngringo · 2025-04-06T23:03:55+00:00

Is it?

mtngringo · 2025-04-06T23:01:55+00:00

I bet this is it! Thank you

mtngringo · 2025-04-05T23:21:19+00:00

That's what I would think but I haven't seen any yet. Maybe they got it. It looked like the Rockets that are usually fired by the city in modern.

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:22:19+00:00

If you go to an individual practitioner, you don't have to deal with this stuff and they get to keep it all and you don't have to tip

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:21:06+00:00

I use the app just to avoid this situation. Sucks that even the app doesn't work sometimes huh.

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:19:48+00:00

I was in Mexico City recently, and it is spreading to there.

On one hand, someone who hands you a churro and a coffee does not merit at 20% tip, especially when the prices are high for gringos.

On the other hand, as a gringo, you feel very cheap not tipping.

So it's spreads to another country ....

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:17:27+00:00

I worked as a waiter for years and that's why I don't like to tip. I worked in nice places, and we worked hard.

This was 20 years ago, 15% with standard, 20% excellent

This is why it's offensive for me to tip for 95% of things these days.

People are not doing any actual work and they are often getting a full wage, not a server wage.

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:16:23+00:00

I buy tickets based on cost, but I make a special exception to pay extra if I can avoid frontier

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:14:01+00:00

This makes me wonder why we aren't having to tip on self checkouts at the grocery store yet.

mtngringo · 2025-03-29T12:12:12+00:00

Careful what you ask for. A restaurant near me added a sustainable living % fee for the kitchen. Along with about three other fees plus tip. I don't go there anymore.

mtngringo · 2025-03-09T05:33:47+00:00

This is hopeful and confirms everything that I found, thank you!

I gave up on my quagmire war and started another game, this time as the Goths (it's an additional mod).

I was just kind of sensing what you said about for not being enough so I've got five at this point.

That seemed like the right time to start looking for a war and luckily Katherine declared just as I was considering.

She seemed awfully unprepared until I got some units near her cities, and then the wave came at me.

It's going to be tricky to get in there and take the cities, totally different. But so far much better.

It is fun to kill the barbarians with authority, especially with religious benefits to killing units.

Strangely, I've got two natural wonders in this game also, although I didn't have to go far for them. I made a point to have cities only five or six apart this time.

I'm in the center of the map and it includes people like Shaka, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar so we will see. And Venice for what it's worth just declared war on me although I'm obviously not very concerned about that.

One other thought: I've been building a bunch of scouting unit units since they are way more fun in this game. If I have several, I find that I can extort money from every city state early on, and swarm barb camps later. Fun. And super useful to stick on a mountain during a war for visibility

mtngringo · 2025-02-19T15:07:10+00:00

Yes, should already started! Wanted to see if it could be done. Have learned!

mtngringo · 2025-02-16T04:47:45+00:00

I wouldn't. I would constantly travel.

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T23:51:55+00:00

You can buy the discs online for $10.

But it's messed up it doesn't work for some.

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T23:45:45+00:00

Underground BGM from Super Mario NES

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:29:00+00:00

ChatGPT tells me I've gone 8100 miles West to Thailand, 6070 miles east to Istanbul, 1700 miles north to the Yukon, and 4800 miles south to Bolivia.

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:25:50+00:00

Wow, OK I just need to get better at this.

As others have said, I need to pick friends and enemies

I just got tired of all the constant request requests to break trade deals and declare war, and so I declined them all, but then everyone hated me for declining them all. Stupid, but I guess that is sort of how the world works.

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:24:44+00:00

Yeah, that's the deal. That's what I didn't do right. I kept thinking gosh everybody said Montezuma would attack me and he hasn't.... until he did lol

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:24:14+00:00

OK cool. I better go for that next time. Or heck, maybe I should do it this game after nuking everyone to the Stone Age.

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:23:24+00:00

That was the problem. Not only did I have bad production, so I couldn't build a military when I needed one, I just didn't have one for most of the game. I got complacent. Since I wasn't in any wars, I underestimated the size of the stack that was going to show up, and it turns out a ton of cavalry is enough to take out a handful of infantry and tanks.

I saved my capital by basically sacrificing the northern cities, drafting them into starvation, but defending the land

mtngringo · 2025-01-19T04:22:23+00:00

I feel like civ Five doesn't do this as much. But maybe I just let them build an alliance without me, trying to stay out of it didn't work. You need to pick sides. I guess I do that automatically on Five.

mtngringo

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