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Anyone else having some pretty intense boat chases in this world? Got chased by 3 guys who kept yelling trollolololo while shooting at me from their boats. Lasted about 30 minutes. Don't think they knew that you can't really aim at someone who is moving... or while you are moving. I think I'm settled in a pretty hostile area lol

They were probably hoping to get out a lucky shot that would k.o. you.

Boatchases seem to be a pretty common in this world and the permanent hostility in most supergrids has already reduced the overall player population considerably. The first two weeks you had trouble playing at all on saturday and sunday afternoons, with 1000-1200 players online at the same time - this is down to about 800. Now that the first palibashers have emerged (see HnH forum) it's only going to get worse.

The problem with w6 is that there is almost no change compared to w5 (in fact, the whole development of HnH is on hold until they finsh Salem, which only just attained alpha status) and as a result a lot of veterans have stopped playing, which means there are far less 'good guys' to keep some of the more aggressive factions in check and the existing factions are simply bored, killing what they can find right and left.

Also, I find it funny that the AI (even Gandhi) will be condescending or boastful while I'm counting my nuclear weapons and contemplating who to invade next. Or, I just capture one of Hiawatha's cities and liberate it back to Suleiman and a turn later he has the gall to tell me to basically F off.

Gandhi is a twat.

I noticed the same thing (Caesar has been the same so far btw). In one game I controlled the upper half of a continent, while Gandhi and Caesar shared the lower half. They were constantly sending condescending messages to me, even while I was clearly in the lead in every field. At some point Caesar seized Gandhi's two cities. I recaptured them, liberated the indian capital and destroyed all roman cities except their capital and retreated again (I usually prefer not to pick on the weak). It only took a short while for the once grateful Gandhi to return to his old ways... I dropped some ICBMs on their cities out of spite after that and conquered them.

Huh. As a Scientific & pacifistic player I've gotten the feeling that playing the warmonger is the easiest way to play this game. For anything but a cultural victory it's better to have a large empire.

True but cultural victories are really a pain in the ass. I tried twice to get the steam achievement for a cultural victory with India with three cities or less. You usually get left behind in every field except culture. In one game I was situated right between two civilizations and both attacked me three times. The first and second time I was barely able to defend my three cities, often developing the necessary technologies at the last second. The third war undid me though, since my enemies then posessed units that were more advanced than mine by two eras.
I only managed to get that achievement in a team game with a strong ally.

I definitely don't like the major restrictions on expansion, to be honest. I like to expand as quickly as possible and play land-grab as far as resources, and trying to build a huge prospering empire (that generally remains peaceful) that's an economic powerhouse is my idea of fun.

I think the Civ5 system is much more realistic. No civilization could expand that fast. Even the Roman Empire had to stop and strengthen their new territories before advancing. In Civ5 this means you have stop expanding from time to time and build more buildings dedicated to entertainment and commerce (or find the right balance). It's all too easy to simply mass produce settlers and escorts for them (I usually play with aggressive barbarians, adds a little flavour). Although it may be fun for you to simply claim half of the map (heck, that's fun alright) that's not really a challenge now, is it?

As cool as Building an Igloo is, my eyes began to hurt while walking through the snow that falls 24/7...

Dial down the brightness on your monitor or wear sunglasses... unless it's the amount of tiny things swirling around you that make your eyes hurt.

Since when does the pop cap interfere with pregnancies?

It doesn't. PencilinHand said it only affects immigration, not pregnancies

you can kinda get around this by making a long tunnel full of doors leading to the bottom of the pit. the longer the better.

This just staves off the whole issue. Soon you will have animals in that tunnel, trapped on all sides by the doors.

But his goblin cohorts will still fall prey to the whims of Our Almighty Cage, right?

I guess. My above statement is based on what little i know about the game mechanics. I guess that snatched humans still count as belonging to that human civilization while at the same time belonging to the goblin civilization. True goblins don't have that "human civilization"-part an thus would be affected by the traps.

An exception might be, if you had been at peace with the goblins at one point (I heard this is possible sometimes). Though I heard they don't send any liaisons. Not sure if the trade caravan spotting your traps counts as well.

I know that traps a liaison gets his eye on during his stay will not work against the specific race, should they ever attack you. Since the humans accompanying the goblins were snatched as babies and then raised by the goblins, they might have been snatched from the same civilization you trade with. Thus he would be able to ignore all those traps as well...