There are some creative uses of raise/lower land that you can also use to expand settlement options, especially land nearby existing resources, such as shards, wild grain, etc. If you are in a starting location that looks rather dead a good idea might be to build a ton of zone of control expanding buildings to open up your expansion options.
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="120" id="3317726"]I find Steam hate comical. Reminds me of my crazy religious grandma who would warn me of of how the Devil would corrupt me if I played Dungeons & Dragons, ingested aspartame, or voted Democrat. I find the arguments against Steam just as valid as my grandmas.[/quote] +1 The ironic thing is by using platforms like steam, you forego the need for conventional publishers who are looki
[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="97" id="3317521"] Quoting Mistwraithe, reply 95The auto-updating is by far my biggest beef with Steam... I've heard this criticism before, and frankly, it always baffles me. Why would you not want to run the latest version of your software? I'm aware of the argument that "sometimes updates break things", but I've never found this to be a significant problem.[/quote] Any heavily modded game is going to b
Are mechanics for Governers being addressed as well? Such as adding buildings that yield experience for Governers or a slow consistant growth option, so we don't have to micromanage Governers to grow them?
[quote] I've also cut Influence and Faction Prestige. Influence fell victim to the go big or go home rule. It just wasn't important enough to feel like its own thing. Removing it makes gold more important for diplomacy. Faction Prestige is being replaced by a Unrest penalty based on the amount of cities in your empire. The more cities you have the higher your unrest is. This makes anti-unrest effects more critical as
Ultimately its tied to your city/production routes much more than a melee based character is. So city spamming is much more important. However the long term benefits far outweigh the initial difficulty. I take beastmaster with my mage sovereigns, particularly any giant spider, cave bears and umberdroth make leveling a mage easier/faster. You almost don't notice not taking warlock. I did a speed conquest on Ridiculous today with a mage/beastmaster and by the time I h
I didn't see this mentioned in the previous seven pages, but is definitely an annoying item. When your army is garrisoned inside a city your power rating takes a drop. Take that same army outside of the city and guard them on a tile, and your power rating jumps up. Of course you must end turn for the updated power rating, but I've noticed as high as an 80 power drop with a veteran army. This is an issue for a whole host of reasons, and pretty much ensures you st