So, what would we like this time? Vanilla impossible?

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The Zaishen Order has taken over the Tombs, displacing the loyal henchmen that we all know so well with faceless Zaishen mercenaries of their own.

As usual, there are some 'flavour' NPCs to talk to, the first being the Zaishen Commander Kuro:



Up next is Acolyte Chigo:



And finally we have Acolyte Kaizhan:


He's a cheerful sod.

But what about Stefan, Orion, Alesia, and Reyna? Well, they're still kicking around, grumbling about no longer being the selectable Henchmen.


Prejudices aside, Stefan seems to know the most about the subject at hand. Still needs to lay off the pork rinds though.


Reyna's a cautious girl. Probably the reason why she's almost always the last to die.


How nice that she recognises me. I'm usually the one bleeding to death at the frontlines while she's trading hairstyle tips with Lina.


Oh, come now Orion. You were the only elementalist that managed to get through the AOE update unaffected. You couldn't land a Firestorm on time even if we nailed a dwarf to the floor.

There's some more dialogue bubbles, but I haven't got many of them. One of the best is one of Commander Kuro's.

I am thinking of trying a variant on my own and wanted to know a few things before I started.

1) If you raze a holy city and also raze any city with that religion in it currently will that 'kill' a religion?

2) Are there diplo penalties for razing a holy city from other AIs who arent that religion? ie if i raze Spain's holy Buddist city of Madrid is Hindu Ghandi going to be pissed? Or would he actually approve?

3 ) Is there any way to get rid of a religion that is in one of your own cities? (besides razing it) Can you even raze/abandon one of your own cities?

4) If you have 'No state religion' and you also have the civic (I forget which one) that stops the spread of non-state religions...will any religions spread to you?

Thanks for any answers you are able to provide.

Hi everyone. I'm new here and I wanted to say Hi. I like whacky variants and participating in Epics, GOTMS (CFC), SG's ect, and that's why I joined I also have a quick two questions. I know what you're thinking (Damn noobs to RB always asking questions )

Regarding dot maps, what program do you all use to make them? I have noticed that you can use the in-game program, but it is extremely hard to draw a straight line when drawing the city radius.

Also, while reading all the great reports from Epic 1, (I'm exitedly waiting for Epic 2, I plan to join) I noticed that some of you get an in game popup that asks what you want to name your screen shot. I don't get this, my computer automatically names it Screenshot00_ (001,002,003 ect). I looked in the options and all over to turn this option on because it can be a pain to have to leave the game and rename twenty screen shots, but couldn't find it. Do any of you know how to turn this option on?

What is the RB's view of premature retiring? Are you ordered to finish every game NO MATTER WHAT, or can you retire early if it's too late in the game and you're too far behind?

I'm wondering if someone would please explain how to draw lines on the main game window as i have noted people mention such a feature in posts but cannot find how to do it.

Thank you in advance

Great site btw, love reading the SG's.

Two general questions, prompted by my Adventure 3 game. (No spoilers here, though)

(1) In RB 3, I got the feeling that my worker strategy was severly hampering my overall performance. Ok, I generally have fewer workers than cities. The logic being that they often still run out of things to do. (Because expansion is limited by economics, you can't claim territory as fast in Civ4) But I wonder if having more workers to improve terrain faster might be well worth the trade off of having them do nothing more often. Also, I've often meant to try changing terrain...i.e. farms for early growth -> whatever else once a city is bigger. What are your general strategies regarding workers?

(2) Can anyone offer any info regarding tech cost and city maintenance cost on larger maps? My limited exposure to large maps seems to suggest that city maintenance (based on number of cities) stays the same, while tech cost increases, i.e. slower tech pace.

Thanks for the help, and sorry if this forum is the wrong place for such questions.

Here's an interesting little cheat the AI has going ...

First, Mecca in 1948. Note the 6 Infantry guarding the city.


Then in 1949, an interesting thing happens ... those 6 Infantry are transformed into Mechanized Infantry.


Seems pretty simple. The AI had just discovered Robotics and had paid to upgrade its units. Right???



Nice deal. At minimum, 8 visible Mech Inf upgrades for a total of 20 gold and 3 gpt. (I don't show the other two, but they occurred in a city I was bombarding.) In fact, the 20 gold was likely a map purchase and the 3 gpt difference most likely arose due to differences in the tiles I was stepping on during my attacks. So the AI are upgrading units for "free".

This is not an isolated incident. This is at least the 3rd time in this particular game I have seen the AI upgrading units for "free", and at minimum the 5th time I have noticed it occurring. The occurrences were over at least two patches (can't remember whether the first time I saw it was in 1.00 or 1.09) and multiple civs/maps/eras.

Neither of the other two AI had a change in their amount of cash between these two turns, so Saladin did not get the money from someone else.

In 1950 Saladin had 250 gold (I took ~200 by razing one of his cities) and 5 gpt. So this is not some bizarre research/production/trade turn order artifact.

Deep thoughts on what is actually occurring in the next post.

Hi,

does anybody know how the game decides which tiles are under control of which city in case of overlapping cities? You can no longer assign tiles to cities as you could do in Civ 3, but how does the game decide which tile belongs to which city? I think first ring tiles have precedence over second ring tiles, but what about a tile which is in the second ring of two cities? Is it culture? Which city had been founded first? Or something completely different?

I often want to found a city only if it won't steal away tiles from another city of mine, so this would be important to know...especially as you no longer can abandon cities.

-Kylearan

To those who have seen this-

"The save file you have selected is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed"

This seems to be the result of games (both MP,PBEM, Adventures/Epics) that have the "no cheating" option enabled. After 3 days on the phone with take2 games and them getting nowhere, Snaproll was able to figure it out

@Sirian

Would it be possible for you to email me a save of Adventure 3 with the "no cheating" option not enabled so I could at least play a shadow game?