Should I start up a game of C3C or wait for the beta patch?

[blackwulf]

Thanks for the advice

-Blackwulf

[Theseus]

I have now played exactly one epic game into the modern era, as far as Synth Fiber.

I chose not to build an FP.

It's broken in terms of corruption... in a way, I enjoyed the challenge, but just for this one game. I've used 'food power' to address the problem: Aside from my core (12 cities?), I've got an extended portion of my empire that I keep at 7 pop, and continually draft and disband... a LOT of cities, maybe 15, and I'd prefer to expand further, but it's just not worth it. I've been taking these cities through: Temple, Walls, Barracks, Harbor, Market, Courthouse, Police Station, Civil Defense, Airport... all using disbanding when any of them hits 8 pop... it works, but it's boring and laborious. Even when I get all of that done, those cities are mostly cr*p, and they shouldn't be.

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by b_ramsdell
Ok, enough of the acronyms, I have no clue what you all are saying with the "Fp & gpt" and so on, could someone please explain in english for me.

For your help check the last page (it's even in English!)

http://www.apolyton.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40525

[Fatwreck]

Originally posted by Theseus
I have now played exactly one epic game into the modern era, as far as Synth Fiber.

I chose not to build an FP.

It's broken in terms of corruption... in a way, I enjoyed the challenge, but just for this one game. I've used 'food power' to address the problem: Aside from my core (12 cities?), I've got an extended portion of my empire that I keep at 7 pop, and continually draft and disband... a LOT of cities, maybe 15, and I'd prefer to expand further, but it's just not worth it. I've been taking these cities through: Temple, Walls, Barracks, Harbor, Market, Courthouse, Police Station, Civil Defense, Airport... all using disbanding when any of them hits 8 pop... it works, but it's boring and laborious. Even when I get all of that done, those cities are mostly cr*p, and they shouldn't be.

I too have played exactly one epic game (space race victory on Emp, yay for me) and the corruption was indead insane, I built the FP though... Don´t know if I benefited so much from it... at least the city I bulit it became very lucrative, my highest production city ... but most of my empire was made up by big cities with a lot of specialists

[smellymummy]

i got a SGL once so far, after discovering invention iirc.. isnt the SGL % cumulative with every tech you discover first? if so I was very lucky because that was the first tech that I discovered first afaik.

as for corruption, i don't think its that bad, although i havent played a game yet where i needed to build a FP.

all in all though, the game is very playable imo, especially the conquest scenarios anyway