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▲ 21 r/Civilization_VII

New update so well, abandoned a current game in favor of starting a new one :D As usual, randomized everything - let's go!

u/Azedenkae — 23 days ago
▲ 7 r/Civilization_VII

Sharing my current favourite settings for standard size maps :D

  1. I found that for standard maps, standard game speed works well. I do like slower game speeds on larger maps, so units don't go obsolete as quickly. But for standard size map it works.

  2. After a while, I do like standard age length. Makes it harder to finish both civic and tech trees.

  3. Trailblazer makes things super competitive, though it can be unfair sometimes - like some can get lucky and spawn near natural wonders from the start. I do think for more players, it does need an option to set like, 'first two' or something like that.

  4. I play mostly with Sovereign and Immortal difficulty settings, a good balance for me personally.

  5. I am finding fractal continents to be pretty well-balanced in terms of how big the landmass(es) are. Big enough that naval leaders/civs don't steamroll, but not too large that it swings the other way. A good balance of naval and land warfare.

  6. After trying a bunch of settings, I am back to playing Apex-only. Just feels weird without civ-switching.

Side note, devs can we please have setting selection first before leader and civ selections? Thank you.

u/Azedenkae — 29 days ago
▲ 14 r/Civilization_VII

Time for a new game, this time combining Catherine and Heian! Was gonna go with Assyria, but I was just done with Edward Teach and ended the game managing 100 ships, so need a break from a militaristic game for a while lol

u/Azedenkae — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/Civilization_VII

2/3rds of the way into the Exploration Age and I have 72 ships under my command :D And this is with ship acquisition significantly slowed down too - the other Civs seem to be bent on building land units for whatever reason.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/Civilization_VII

I think this is the least number of city-states I have ever seen, I was responsible for the majority, but the other Civs were also very intent on killing off city-states for whatever reason... I think must be because all 8 Civs were crammed into the homelands or something.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 16 r/Civilization_VII

Victim of my own success - the number of ships I got from the antiquity age as Edward bankrupted me upon age transition XD

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 13 r/Civilization_VII

Only half way through the age and already a sizeable fleet with Edward :D And this is only the two main armies, there are other singular ships elsewhere.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 43 r/Civilization_VII

Time for a new game! Edward + Carthage should work out well.

Time for a new game again, loving the Time Tested update thanks to the swap from legacy paths to triumphs. I must say, I did not mind the legacy paths in the past, but now it is just all the better in a sense. Still get the good of the legacy paths, minus the railroadiness.

I've swapped back to just playing Apex civilizations. The new time tested stuff is just too weird, I originally was super apprehensive about civ-swapping due to Humanity, but it is working really well for Civ7. Now I can't play without civ-swapping with each era lol.

But yeah. Unfortunately I can only choose relatively non-specific mementos for this playstyle this time round as have not played Edward before, but hoping to get some more naval-specific mementos soon for a next playthrough.

It's okay though, Quinquereme I should be super helpful in offsetting the additional gold maintenance to help build out a massive fleet of plunderers. :D

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/PathOfKings

A Quick Guide to the Game, From a Lazy Person

I enjoy the game. I like having fun. But I am also lazy, and there are things that I just cannot be bothered to do.

So here's my guide to the game, from my perspective.

In terms of purchases, I bought no ads, because I cannot be bothered watching forced ads. Eventually I also bought contracts for my clan, but that's after quite a bit of success already. It was more because I felt bad for my clan mates than anything, cause I was not advertising my clan or anything like that.

  1. PVP Raid is the core focus. The reason is simple - your progress is soft-locked by the maps you are on, as the maps dictate the rarity of the gears you can get. Yes you can get higher level gear otherwise, but realistically what makes the bigger difference is eventually replacing your gear with higher level gear. Thus this should always be what you aim to do.

  2. Prestige as soon as you can. There are some debate whether you should finish bosses before you prestige, but I find this to not be necessary. None of the rewards from bossing, you cannot get from other sources, and so losing out on progress just to finish bossing is not worth it in my opinion and experience. Prestiging is how the massive spikes in power levels happen. I went from around 150k to 1 mil power level within 2 days of prestiging.

  3. When you lose pvp raids constantly, swap to grinding sections. As far as I can tell, pvp raid difficulty is mapped to map level, so the easiest way is to just get a heck of a lot stronger. Often it just means getting a bunch of better gear from grinding sections, and suddenly you are back to being able to beat pvp raids. Gears really do make a big difference.

  4. Can't be bothered with ranked. If you really want to, sure, but aside from pet food, time spent doing ranked can probably be better spent elsewhere - grinding sections, pvp raids, or just real life stuff.

  5. Matching gears to hero 'main' stats is the easy way forward. Optimizing a character is great, for example the warrior does need some lifesteal. But it can also be time-consuming. The easy way is to just match gear stats to the hero's bonuses, in the order of: 1. gear of just the 'right' stats, 2. gear having one of the 'right' stats, 3. other gear.

  6. Raid ads are the ones to watch. I cannot be bothered watching many optional ads, so I almost exclusively only watch raid ads to progress maps faster. Every once in a while I may watch a forging ad to insta-forge a relic gear, but that's about it. I don't want blacksmith upgrade ads. Sure, they can be good, but I can't be bothered. Plus, that time you spend on the blacksmith upgrade ad, you can spend just grinding sections themselves.

  7. You don't need a strong clan to do well. Clan wars try to match clans of similar power levels, as far as have been the case for me. So a stronger clan just means all that more effort to win. With lower level clans, there's a good chance the other clan may be inactive, i.e. a free win.

  8. You can spend lower rarity materials by mixing a large amount of them (like say 99) with a few amount of the higher rarity materials. In terms of probability, in the long term you'll get the same amount of rarity of gears, but it is nice to have a small chance of obtaining higher rarity gears.

That's it for now. Any questions, feel free to comment.

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u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/PathOfKings

Recommended Event Selections

Howdy folks, see below the list of all events and my recommended selections (in order of the options). If there are multiple numbers separated by a comma, then that’s the priority in my opinion. Otherwise then both or all three options are the same.

The best option will always be either materials or actual gear, if not then the highest amount of gold. As far as I can tell, gear/materials are always of the highest rarity for the map you are currently at, or one level higher. Where there are two recommended options, almost always the first is a gear (or 100 materials) of the highest rarity of the current map, the second will be ten materials one level higher. So depending on your preferences, choose accordingly.

Arrow to the Knee 2,1
Barrel Bandit 1,2
Conspiracy Wizard 2
Crypto Goblin 1
Everything is Fine 3
Free Balloon 1
Glitch in the Kingdom 2
Goblin Influencer 1
Golden Egg 12
Hello Down There 1
Hero Down 2
Just Greg 2
Kiss the Princess 2
Log Trouble 3
Lost Explorer 3
Low Battery 3
Peace was Never an Option 1
Protein Potions 1,2
Ritual Trouble 13
Road Closed 2
Roadside Prophet 2,1
Royal Tax Audit 2
Runaway Princess 2,1
Tiny Fan 2
Treasure Pinata 123
Wagon Trouble 2,1
Wrong Castle, Plumber 2,1
Wrong Dimension, 23,1
Wrong Time Period 1,3
You Shall Not Pass 1,2

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u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/PathOfKings

PSA: The gain in pvp raid depends on the active character’s stats

It is either 10% or 20% of a stat, depending on the stat. Accuracy for example, is 20%. So here for example, I put lizard as the active character, and thus when getting accuracy, I get 2.41k each time.

Why is that good? Well take my warrior for example, his accuracy is only 1.69k. A 2.41k gain in accuracy more than doubles his accuracy, allowing combos to hit better.

When building out teams for pvp raid, consider which one you’d want as your active character too. That way, you can greatly boost the two remaining characters and make them far more powerful.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 23 r/TotalWarThreeKingdoms

Chu-Wu war update: Managed to carve up a very good chunk of Wu territory, and gave quite a few territories to my vassals; Sun Ren is the Wu faction leader now, looks like it should be okay to make peace, finally.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 29 r/TotalWarThreeKingdoms

When playing as Liu Biao, I do enjoy taking my time and keeping the peace and factions alive... but the Sun faction tend to be really powerful every time, so much so that I can't help but tear through their territory this playthrough >:D

I got lucky and was able to kill Sun Ce with one of those faction council thingies, then killed Lady Wu in a battle, and then finally Sun Quan in battle as well.

Gosh they have so much territory though, no wonder they become so strong later. I think I'll have to take a few more territories before I can make more permanent peace with the faction.

u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/PathOfKings

What to use lower tier materials tor? Spiking them with higher tier materials. :D

So I have been mixing 99 lower tier materials with 1 higher tier material.

The math over the long term is the same - that’s how probability works.

But!

The chances of obtaining different amounts of gears well, differ.

Over the long term, you have a 36.6% of obtaining nothing.

But! You have a 63.4% chance of obtaining at least 1 gear, including a 26.4% chance of obtaining two or more gear.

So it just depends on your risk profile.

But yeah. It is a use for lower tier materials, if you want to be more risky.

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u/Azedenkae — 2 months ago