Gurken Khan

I don't know who screwed up what, but Wild Lake in a25 just sucks. Is anybody actually enjoying the 'feature' that you can't build anything around your CC? With the India biome it was so terrible that I abandoned the game. With the Agean-Anatolian biome I hoped it would be better, but it still is terrible. Not only is it still a pain in the averywhere to build anything, but it also somehow breaks the AI. Repeatedly I had workers like this one neither being idle nor clearing the terrain but just standing around. THE HECK??!? (Wild Lake never was nor is balanced, just given the distribution of treasures and Gaia units.)

'Thought police' & 'spoiling the children'... Gee. I'd consider it basic decency not to massively use foul language around minors. Granted, in some ways I'm old & conservative. How do 'servers' play into this?

'Regulation on the delegation of authority concerning land conveyance permissions' (According to dict.cc, and it was a real thing.)

I might be wrong but I've got the feeling there's not much manpower in the lobby moderation. Anyway I think there should be a three strike rule (warning - time ban - perma ban); doesn't require a real time response and might help a bit.

When I mark a word, do a right click and go to the search engine I trust (duckduckgo.com) I pretty much find any word I wanna look up. ;p

I thought maybe something could be done about how dense these patches of trees are...

I didn't find anything: was there also something done to make the trees more passable? I ordered four woman to build and they just can't get through or around this patch of trees. (Well, one did, after half a minute or so...)

That's fine for you (and me), but since the game is also aimed at minors I think a nanny-bot like in the forums would be ok. (It's not perfect and can get ridiculous, but better than nothing.) Don't know how difficult implementing that would be. @Stan` @user1 ?

Did they actually collect left hands as trophies?

@Ceres Irgendwo werden die hotkeys doch übersetzt; weiss aber nicht an welcher Stelle. Hinter "Aufträge" fehlt 'n Punkt. Vllt. ist es Dir nach @Freagarachs Link schon klar, aber: das Pausen-Symbol ist ja generisch, d.h. es kann sich auf ein beliebiges Objekt bzw. Auftrag beziehen; werden solche GUI-Hinweise generell in Klammern angezeigt? Im Handbuch finden sich übrigens noch etliche englische Wörter, wenn Du von unten kuckst stößt Du schnell drauf (Delete, MouseMiddle...).

I never produce horse archers. I'd rather take the damage than the range. Ever since I saw an camel archer chase a gazelle literally over a whole normal sized map I resent them. Playing as ptol I begrudgingly take them as half of my ranged cav because I usually can't afford mercs only.

@AcanthisI'd like a neat fighting formation, but whenever my units were in formation I just wanted to turn it off immediately. So I don't even have the experience that I could give an as detailed feedback as yours.

Alright. But I think ruins v. whole buildings and sacred/magic v. mundane sites are fundamental questions decisive for the art to come up with.

I like the idea. Controlling the (majority of) Caravanserais would also appeal to my more 'wordly' understanding of the world, rather than the 'magical'.

I'm also curious about that; I don't know of any way. ??? I've never had an ally build a single building in my territory. I guess one has to bank on the generosity of the ally. The AI is omniscient, and I too believe there's some check coded for what I'm low on. That also goes the other way round, when it requests resources it's something I have a bunch of; unpleasant when I'm saving for sth specific, like Will to Fight... I noticed that in a25 the ally will ask for resources even if it has several hundreds or even >1000.

I was wondering if any of our civs would consider ruins of old and dead civs as sacred. Whatever works, I guess.

Haven't forgotten, just took me a bit to reproduce it: I didn't cut off the empty space to illustrate how much space there is to present the stats. I guess I have to hit six digits (here xxxxx.5) so it gets cut off.

Wouldn't the cultures' buildings be intact at the peak of their might?

I don't think it sounds like fun, but I don't really see it coming. Should it actually be implemented I gonna push for the inclusion of latrines, sore feet (sore butts for cav) and STDs to add depth and realism. :p

The only thing I mind about the omniscient AI is that it can throw down a foundation of a CC in a region where it never had a unit close to it.

I can't remember AIs ever form an alliance AND attacking me. When they attacked me individually I often noticed a very similar timing; sometimes I could watch them fight each other just outside my border.

I had that quite frequently, haven't seen it in a25 yet. (But I also don't play maps like archipelago.) Yeah, it looks deeper than shallow. Don't know what the intention on Schwarzwald is tho.

Interesting. In earlier versions I usually was everyone's favorite enemy, playing with four enemies I could actually count down the attacks. ('Mkay, red and yellow attacked me, where's - ah, there's purple, now let's wait for teal...') That has changed with a25, I guess the accessibility of an enemy now has a stronger impact for the AI.

I guess it's a feature, not a bug. On other maps (like Flood for example) you can also build ports in waist-high water without a connection to dry land.

@Angen Vulcan's not happy.