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|Aug 20, 2012, 12:51 PM
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In-Depth Guide: Mayan/Arabian ICS strategy.
Having played a lot of infinite city spawn (ICS) games in G&K, and not having seen much discussion of it going on, I thought that it might help to provide an overview on how to best tackle it. The two best ICS civs in the game, in my opinion, are the Mayans and the Arabians. While their opening builds vary slightly due to Mayans not needing to rush Archery, they're close enough that I still feel like I can talk about them almost interchangeably. The following strategy overview has been tested on Emperor-Deity difficulty games on Standard sized+ maps (Pangea, Pangea Plus, Continents, Continents Plus) at Standard speed with "normal" settings. While it isn't infallible, it seems to work out fairly out well on average.
This guide will be broken down into 2 parts. The first part will be the build-order overview and explanation. The second part will be an in-depth discussion of the overall strategy and how to best make it work. If you just want to learn about ICSing build orders and gameplans, it's all at the forefront.
Part 1: The General Gameplan
Capital Build Order:
Subsequent City Build Orders:
*Note: As Arabia, you should aim to produce ~3 Archers tops early on and have the rest be Chariot Archers. They'll upgrade into Camel Archers later on, which is a unit that you should actively be massing. Build as many Chariot Archers as you can and sit tight until Chivalry.
Key Purchases:
I would call this an "ideal" purchase order, but the dice won't always break your way. The key is to meet as many civs possible early on in order to sign Embassies for a free 25g per player, trade luxuries for 240g, sell early Horses for 225g/5 units (keep them later if you're Arabia), etc. City states and ruins can both help too, as can Barbarian camps. Do you best to steal a worker from a City State to put off buying them for as long as possible. Steal 2 if you can get away with it; you're probably not looking to play a peaceful game anyways. You may need to purchase Composite Bowmen upgrades before you even purchase a 2nd worker or even a 2nd Settler, so keep that in mind as well. Computers can be fickle and treacherous at times. Hopefully you can stop buying Settlers and start producing them after the 1st, but you may need to buy more.
If Greece or something is near you, I would just accept your fate and sell him as much as possible, make a declaration of war (DOW) him to get it all back, and sell your resources again to another computer. Early wars are actually much easier to hold off than later wars, so I'd rather DOW him on turn 30 than wait for him to DOW me on turn 50 for example. Your early archers will crush his army, and you can always rush buy walls if needed. ICS typically isn't for people who want to play peacefully anyways, so don't worry too much about the Diplomacy hits.
Policy Tree Order:
Alternative opener:
Your opener should always be based on your needs, but these are the 2 generic ones that you should be aiming for. In general you should try to nab Republic and Collective Rule first, since it's much easier to build/buy/steal a Worker than it is to build a Settler early on. You also won't be producing much culture, so going from Citizenship directly to Collective Rule takes a very long time relative speaking. In fact, it takes so long that you're better of going Representation second for the Golden Age (which gives a culture boost) and the reduced culture costs. Still, in those games where you don't foresee yourself being able to squeeze out a worker, the latter opener works just fine. You won't get the bonus settler production for a long time, but it's not that bad all things considered. It's always an option, and that's all that matters really.
Moving past that, you'll probably be looking to finish Liberty and maybe move into Commerce. The right side of Commerce and the opener are fantastic gold bonuses, and are often sorely needed (as Mayans more so than Arabians). Your gold per turn (GPT) should be quite low given your army size/worker count in proportion to your low citizen count, at least early on. Trade Routes and Trading Posts (TPs) will quell that in time, but you're often struggling for gold early on. Your army and workers aren't free, and you can't lean on Tradition to alleviate some of your early gold woes. Also, the bonus gold per TP from finishing the Commerce tree is amazing. It makes it an extremely viable pursuit nowadays.
Mayan Tech Order:
Pottery--> Animal Husbandry (AH)---> ~3 nearby luxury resource techs---> beeline Construction (Immortal+ only, stop at The Wheel on lower difficulties)---> Currency---> beeline Physics or Steel (prioritizing Iron Working)---> Guilds, Steel/Physics (whichever you didn't get earlier)---> Education (prioritize Theology)--> Industrialization, Dynamite
You'll want to rush Pottery since you'll want to get a Pyramid up asap. After that you should grab AH to check for horses and start working on your luxury techs. They may require Mining, Masonry and/or Bronze Working, so some starts are better than others in that respect. You'll have to acquire all of those as needed. Once you get all of that in order, your focus should be on defense. If you're playing on Deity, someone has probably already denounced you. Mongolia, Greece, Aztecs, etc. By turn 40 or so you want to be working towards Construction so that you can upgrade your Atlatlists into Composite Bowmen and have Walls available if need be. Your forward bases will want them. On lower difficulties, including Immortal at times, you can skip Construction and stop after The Wheel. Your Atlatlists and a pair of Warriors or so should be enough to keep you alive. Moving on, you'll want to start improving some Iron so that you can get working on some siege weapons and Swordsmen to ultimately prepare for full-scale war. Currency should be acquired if money is starting to get tight, and it usually is. Beyond that you'll want Guilds for TPs, and from there you should just grab Education to boost your beakers per turn, keep hitting key Military techs (Rifling, Industrialization, Dynamite), Printing Press if you need it for your religion, etc.
Theology is put off for a long time since the Long Count bonus is somewhat underwhelming. Mayans have an early tech lead over most civs but that quickly falls off as the game progresses. You'll want to hit key military techs ahead of the other civs and use that advantage to take them out.
Arabian Tech Order:
Animal Husbandry---> Pottery--> 2 nearby Luxury resource techs---> Archery ---> another nearby luxury resource tech---> beeline Construction (Immortal+ only, stop at The Wheel on lower difficulties)---> Writing---> Horseback Riding---> Currency---> Iron Working---> Chivalry (prioritizing Guilds normally, but Civil Service can be researched first if needed)---> Education
While similar, the Arabian tech path is slightly different. You'll need to pick up Archery early on so that you can be prepared to hit Construction past turn ~40 or so with Archer backup if you've already been denounced. Beyond that you just want to hit Bazaars and Camel Archers so that you can start taking over the game. The same general concepts apply, so I won't bother restating them.
Managing City Size:
In a perfect world you want your cities to sit at 3 population until you're ready to plant a University on them (at which point you want them to hit 5), but that's not always an option. You will often be required to hit 4 population in order to keep the 3 follower minimum that cities will likely need for their religious perks. If you chose Tithe, then you'll probably need 5 population just to maintain the 4 follower minimum. A random external religion will almost inevitably convert someone from your cities after all. Once you hit 5 population, you'll want to stagnate your city if possible. Working hills and low-food tiles is a great way to do this, since you only care about production and gold at that point. Work TPs for as long as you can, but you'll probably want to throw those citizens into a University when you get the option to. Stagnating growth won't always be possible since you'll have nothing but 2+ food tiles to work with at times, but those are great cities to generate beakers and gold from TPs + Library + Market. Just spam TPs and mines on every available tile and watch the gold and production roll in.
General Gameplay:
Plant your first few cities directly on luxury resources if you can afford to so that you can sell it immediately for 240g. This is especially true for mining-based luxury resources such as Silver and Gold. Look for hills to plant your cities on otherwise. Above all else you want production at this stage of the game. Not only do they provide a defensive boost, but they also help you power out your key early game buildings and defensive units. If you skipped straight to Settler production, use that gold to buy Workers instead of building them early on. You want to have at least 4 and you want to get them out as possible. Don't worry about perfect city placement (i.e. 4 tile disbursements) early on. You need to keep your wits about you and produce ~4 "semi-real" cities before you start throwing random "nothings" up. Once you've bought a few Settlers and Workers, you can consider not selling resources that you acquire/start to get back (i.e. keep at least 1 luxury resource of each type for happiness purposes). Your capital probably has Collective Rule by now, so it's much easier to produce Settlers rather than to keep purchasing them. Keep your happiness above -10 and keep churning out cities whenever you can, at least during the early stages of the game. Horses and Iron can both be sold for a lot of gold at this stage, so as long as you're expanding on to some type of resource then you should be able to buy or production focus out some form of happiness if needed (Coliseums, mercantile CSes, Circuses). Keep whatever luxuries you're required to in order to keep the engine moving. It's only a matter of time before religion kicks in and starts eliminating all of your happiness needs.
No one can tell you how many cities you should have up by turn X using an ICS strategy. Your goal is to stay above -10 unhappiness, so the answer is typically "whatever keeps you at -8 or so unhappiness" for the first portion of the game. You want a bit of a buffer, your cities do still grow after all, but you can always stagnate them if needed. It really depends on how bountiful the resources on the map are. Still, in general, you should be shooting for roughly one city every 10 turns. If you have 10 cities by turn 100 then you're probably looking ok, but that number is lower than what you should be aiming for. Ideally you'll have something closer to 12 by then, at which point you should be completely out of space. That will always vary based on map size, but if you're aggressively expanding at choke points and whatnot you should be able to secure enough space for a dozen or so cities on a Standard map. Getting more tends to be difficult since computers also expand fairly aggressively, and you'll often find yourself pinched between many of them.
Rough guidelines would be: 4 cities founded by turn 50, 8 cities built or almost built by turn 80, 12 cities prepped (i.e. the land is ready, you just need to wait on happiness) by turn 110.
Mercantile City States are your lifeblood early on. Eventually your religion will kick in to solve your happiness troubles, but that's a long ways away. You need to diligently scout for them and go out of your way to appease them. If a Barbarian camp is harassing one halfway across the map, don't hesitate to send something over. If money isn't too tight, you can always try and buy some up, which is what you should be looking to do once you've stopped worrying about purchasing settlers and workers. This is a temporary fix until you can get your religion in full swing, and it should be treated as such. Don't worry about keeping them all happy in the long-run; you've got something better planned.
The National College (NC) is tricky. There is no good time to build it. By the time that you could, you're often in a position to whip out 2-4 more cities over the next few turns. While you could take the time to build it, it's going to cost you a lot of time and hammers since you'll have at least 4 bases at that point. By the time it finishes you could probably have 8. Taking the time to build it sets your ICS plan back by a significant amount, and will often allow computers to encroach on your territory. As such, I typically avoid it altogether. I don't think the long game favors the ICSing player to begin with, especially on higher difficulties, and so I typically go all-in on the Domination plan and see how it goes. Pyramids and Messenger of the Gods can both offset the early science production lost from not building the NC, allowing you to keep pace or even stay ahead for the first part of the game. That obviously falls off later on, but hey, with any luck there won't be a later on. Hopefully you can take some civs out in the late-Medieval and early-Renaissance era and finish the game with Artilleries, Bombers, Gatling Guns and some form of Infantry.
ICSing isn't for the feint of heart. You will spend most of the early game unhappy, but as long as you stay above -10 unhappiness then you're doing fine. If you are happy before your religion kicks in then you're just plain not expanding fast enough. Your goal should be to spam Settlers and military units out of your capital to the brink of bankruptcy, while preventing your cities from growing beyond a few citizens. After you've started working all relevant luxury and strategic resources, have 2 workers building roads and start improving tiles. You may have had 1 worker doing roads previously, but at some point you need to get them all online for your free bonuses. The sooner the better. Eventually you should have a sizable army of Composite Bowmen and (Long)Swordsmen, which will eventually be supported by Trebuchets or Camel Archers. That should be your queue to commence your assault on all nearby threats. Raze or puppet them all and start planting your own cities in their wake if needed. If your happiness is high, which it often can be at this point (assuming that your religion is in full swing), then just keep them as puppets for the much needed GPT. Otherwise, just wipe them out and throw up your own. You're going to lose units in the process, but that's fine. That's why we built so many of them.
Part 2: A Look at ICS
What is it good for?
ICS can be a potent warmongering tool when employed correctly. Unfortunately, it doesn't lend itself particularly well to anything else. The number of cities created while ICSing, paired with the stunted population growth due to unhappiness and settler production, means that you'll be hard pressed to win via science or culture. Science is especially difficult since you generally won't be making many friends to sign RAs. Furthermore, obtaining a diplomacy win is extremely difficult at higher difficulties. Not only do many civs DOW you at first sight (more-or-less), but their insane gold advantage and spy coup-d'état spam makes it easy for them to gobble up every City State (CS) as an ally later on.
As bleak as this sounds, all hope is not lost. ICS is great for warmongering since it allows you to turn the AI's greatest strength against them. In Immortal+ games the computers are given a ridiculous gold advantage, and your goal should inevitably be to use that against them. By ICSing you can easily cover a lot of land and grab up every Luxury and Strategic resources within ~12 tiles of your capital by the 75th turn or so. You can then sell those resources to every available computer and turn that gold into more settlers, more workers, and a massive standing army. Winning via conquest is achievable from there.
Why Mayans and Arabia?
Arabia has one of the most overpowered advantages in Immortal+ games. If you manage to found a pantheon with them, which I'll admit can be struggle on Diety, the game becomes much easier than it should be. Why? Desert Folklore. Simply put, Desert Folklore is the most absurd bonus imaginable early on. While a Desert start was a death sentence in previous versions of the game, it's the stone-nuts in G&K. When you're spamming cities that only figure to hit 4-5 population tops anyways, and each one of those cities is getting 4-5 faith for free, and you have 10+ of them before turn 100, the game gets out of hand. Remember, faith is linear, not cumulative. A Missionary/Pagoda costs the same amount of faith whether you have 1 or 100 cities. As such, the Arabian desert start bias, coupled with their UA and UB, makes them one of the most fearsome civs in the entire game. Bazaars are utterly stupid since the computers will be rolling in gold to throw at you for your plethora of luxury resources, and the extra gold from trade routes goes a long way to ensuring that your empire has a stable GPT. Their UU is also incredibly powerful, and perfectly supports a warmongering gameplan. You should be actively looking to amass them and to conquer the world before they become obsolete.
When playing as Arabia, it's important to remember that you'll have to work for your Pantheon on Deity and sometimes even Immortal. Shrines will only take you so far, and you may need to pursue other sources of faith generation. City states, natural wonders, ruins and more can all help speed you along. You will have to fight tooth and nail for it, so be prepared to jump through all the hoops that are presented to you. Your best bet is probably to play on Immortal though, since founding a Pantheon on Deity is quite brutal if you don't have a faith bonus. It's far too luck based; you don't have enough control over it in my opinion.
Mayans are similar in nature but have a different set of strengths. You're still praying for a Desert start, but a lack of starting bias means that those will be few and far between. Your next ideal start involves a mining-based luxury nearby, namely Gold or Silver, so that you can hopefully found your capital directly on it for the production boost. I actively dislike naval starts as Mayans, since it takes way too long to get your luxury resources connected so that they can be traded away. If you want an "ideal" ICS start, your priorities should be Desert start > mining luxury start > any start where you can settle on a hill > anything that isn't naval. I don't actively endorse re-rolling for the perfect opener or anything, but I still think it's important to know what to look for. Anyways, what Mayans have over Arabia (and most other civs) is an early tech and faith boost. Pyramids are, cost for cost, easily one of the strongest buildings in the game. Whereas other player trade 1 gold for 1 faith, you trade 1 gold for 2 faith and 2 science. This is where your advantage comes from. Your ability to consistently found an early pantheon (to get Messenger of the Gods/Desert Folklore) and to create an early game tech lead is what will allow you to beeline key military techs before civs can adequately prepare for them. Atlatlists, unlike Camel Archers, are unimpressive but "fine." You're going to be building a lot of them anyways, especially on higher difficulties, so the saved hammers and tech saved from putting off Archery helps. You're not going to conquer the world with the them, but eh, they get the job done. You can always build a couple of them early on and park them near barb camps to farm influence (from nearby CSes) and promotions. This will make your defenses formidable should you be attacked by an aggressive civ early on, but wont be wasted hammers if that doesn't happen. Their Long Count bonus is a mixed blessing. Free GPs are nice, but not all GPs are created equal. Being forced to take Merchants and Artists and whatnot, which all increase the cost of producing future GPs, means that you'll almost never beat a "normal" civ to a Culture or Science win. Whereas they can solely focus on producing 1 specific type of GP, you cannot. This is a big reason why the Mayans are a better ICS + Domination civ than they are a Tall + peaceful civ.
The Role of Religion
Religion, as I've previously eluded to, is probably the best reason to ICS. While any civ can warmonger, not every civ is well equipped to crusade. Civs with powerful, early faith boosts have the means to found a religion and spread it like wildfire, which will give them a big advantage at every stage of the game. The key here, again, is that faith is linear and not cumulative. Units and buildings cost the same amount regardless of how many cities you have. This, again, makes a bonus such as Desert Folklore overpowered as all Hell. Your civ can literally outproduce the faith of multiple other civs, to the point where your religion should almost always dominate the world.
Pantheon preferences:
Desert Folklore > Messenger of the Gods > God of Craftsmen > everything else.
I will always take Desert Folklore if it's a legitimate option (i.e. a desert start) and I feel like it would be a horrible mistake to choose otherwise. Messenger of the Gods (MotG) is the clear choice otherwise, and is likely what you'll be taking as Mayans. If you're unlucky and don't get a desert start as Arabians, it's annoying, but you'll just have to hopefully grab MotG and soldier on. Still, if someone beats you to it, God of Craftsmen or even Sacred Waters can suffice. The others are all situational and good at times, and should all be picked accordingly if MotG isn't an option. I want to stress that as good as MotG seems, it's still worse than Desert Folklore. Do not trick yourself into thinking that ICS always wants the former.
Founder beliefs:
Safe and easy: Ceremonial Burial, Church Property
"Fine" but not desirable: Tithe
Requires work but well worth it: Interfaith Dialogue
If you want to pick something easy and mindless, go with Ceremonial Burial (CB) or Church Property (CP) and otherwise hope that Tithe is still available. I typically opt for CP over Tithe since I like having my cities to stay as small as possible, so hitting 4 followers per city can be tricky at times. You pretty much need to have 5 population cities at that point, since a random religion is probably going to steal a follower from most of your cities. CB vs CP is going to depend on your current situation and what you foresee needing more of; gold or happiness. Mayans usually need gold and Arabia typically need happiness, so I often roll with that, but your situation can always vary.
Now, if you want to have a real game, pick Interfaith Dialogue. It's going to take some time and work to get it going, but it can be brutally overpowered at times. This, again, mostly goes back to Desert Folklore and how it can enable missionary spam very early on. You can easily pump out a Missionary every ~7 turns or so once you get a handful of cities up and running, at which point you can create an insurmountable science lead. Still, this can be tedious and tiresome, so I wouldn't blame you for just opting for something easier.
Follower Beliefs:
Initial belief: Asceticism > Pagodas > Guruship > everything else
Secondary belief: Pagodas (if not taken already) > Mosques > Cathedrals > Monasteries (or Guruship if Pagodas were taken first)
Pagodas are your ideal faith sink since the 2 happiness just puts it a cut above everything else. If you can open with Asceticism, you probably should, but if you miss out on it then hopefully you can snatch Pagodas up before anyone else can. Beyond that you don't have much in the way of good beliefs to grab. You don't want extra food and you're not going to be building Temples and whatnot in most of your cities. Guruship can be "ok," but the problem is that it's tough to get a worthwhile specialist slot in most of your cities. It's pretty much always going to be from your Market (until you hit Education for Universities that is), which isn't too bad all things considered. Gold can be rough at times with ICS (as Mayans more so than Arabians), so boosting it never hurts. Amphitheaters and whatnot are too expensive to maintain, so it's not like you'll have any of those either. Holy Warriors can be very powerful, but it's not ideal if you plan on Missionary spamming to support Interfaith Dialogue and whatnot. Acquire it as the situation calls for it. Ideally you'll get 1 "passive perk" and 1 "faith sink," but that's easier said than done at times.
Enhancer beliefs:
Safe and easy: Religious Texts, Itinerant Preachers
Situational: Just War, Holy Order
If you want to keep it simple, just grab Religious Texts or Itinerant Preachers and call it a day. They're pretty mindless and incredibly powerful. Still, if you're looking for something more interactive, take Just War, or Holy Order if you rolled with Interfaith Dialogue. At that point you can spam missionaries for a massive science or combat bonus, which should enable you to seize control of the game.
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|Aug 20, 2012, 07:40 PM
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What size are most of your cities typically and how many larger than this do you have?
|Aug 21, 2012, 02:07 AM
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Well written guide
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|Aug 21, 2012, 06:14 AM
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I would be interested in some number examples for comparison. Demographics screen at turn 100/150/200 would do nicely
I'm still trying to get ICS to work reliably and playing around with different starts @immortal. I agree on the NC, it slows you down too much and it's actually not so great anyways as your capital will be churning out settlers instead of growing. Building it in another city is just way too slow to even be considered. I tried two city, three city and four city set-ups but none of them could beat a pure expansionist approach in science @ turn 100. One of the problems is that if you have to focus on libraries, you can't focus on faith, so miss out on a religion.
I found that one of the major science problems is the lack of RA. You can maybe sign one or two at a time but most enemies are gonna hate you because of your expansion. I always take messenger of the gods - it's awesome to offset the early science problems of ICS. I don't think Desert Folklore can compete.
|Aug 21, 2012, 06:59 AM
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I think you can still produce the Mint. It'd just give you +2 gold to your city automatically. I've produced a stone works once since I settled on stone (didn't improve the other stone yet) and I could make it, so that's another + for settling on luxuries, I suppose.
But yeah, a few screenshots would be nice.
|Aug 21, 2012, 08:23 AM
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|Aug 21, 2012, 08:59 AM
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The version of ICS that would work for science as well is probably be equidistant to REX - maybe a dozen cities built asap, followed by a serious effort at pop growth an diplomatic cultivation of other civs, particularly those on other continents.
S.K. Ren wrote about this sort of approach elsewhere.
|Aug 21, 2012, 09:08 AM
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Thank you for this usefull guide
Dance of the aurora is quite fine also (same purpose as Desert Folkore) and toudra tile yields +1 ! However, I don't know which civ get a bias for it (maybe Russia ?) and toundra area are harder I think than desert one (flood plains are as good as grassland...)
Have you tried to play ICS-style with Cartage on Archipelago ? It seems OP also, at least on the paper ...
|Aug 21, 2012, 03:27 PM
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Nice guide indeed
Btw quite similar approach could be used (and even better than for arabia) on arborea land maps (or general hi forest coverage) with Iroquois (the main idea is very close do perfectly described above)
Things like Feed the World, though also worth mentioning, since you get serious shrine/temple spam abuse, this will allow you to work extra hill tile, so FtW and pagodas would be perfect match, and will mean you can get 3 hills worked with 1 farm tile at later game (ie +4 hammers per hill tile, so +4 hammers with +1 pop compared to guruship)
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|Aug 21, 2012, 04:06 PM
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I was trying this out, after watching some of madjin's latest LP wit maya, and to me it seemed alot hard to hold of all the DoWs, that come after turn 80, I had 3 Civs DoW me on turn 110ish, saying that I had entered a war with France around turn 40, and was pressed to capture his cities to add to the ICS empire. Perhaps it would have been better to accepted his peace agreement, and continue with the plan.
I had ended up with 8 cities at turn 100, 1 being a French puppet.
|Aug 21, 2012, 08:07 PM
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What about the Inca? Doesn't their UA end up saving you more money on roads than the extra gold from the Arabian UA? The only difference I see is the bazaar, which I admit is very useful for selling luxuries to the AI, and the desert start bias, which I suppose if you can manage it, is very good with desert folklore and therefore helpful for your religion and the benefits from that. But do those differences plus the camel archer make the Arabs much better?
|Aug 22, 2012, 03:49 AM
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Apart from that, there's China to consider. The paper maker is really nice. One can also make a strong case for Korea or Babylon. If you can run two scientists in every city that somewhat offsets not having the higher-tier buildings in most of them.
|Aug 22, 2012, 05:18 AM
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Have you tried your ICS strategy in MP?
I want to play using ICS strategy in my future hotseat game with humans.
|Aug 22, 2012, 06:25 AM
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No gold from trading ressources, week city defense will be smashed by a well prepared human and the conquered cities used against you (or razed with little annoyement due to low pop)
IMHO, there should be a well balanced style between ICS and OCC that fits MP-games
|Aug 22, 2012, 07:16 AM
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Nice guide!
Have you got any ratio between tall and small cities? For instance, how much time and resorces is needed to grow one city up to 15 comparing to 3 cities of 5 pop?
|Aug 22, 2012, 07:35 AM
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I would also consider Ethiopia as fitting this guide. Sure you will pretty much negate the UA, but the UB will get you through the policies faster and into a religion as fast as the Mayans without needing the shrine. With the shrine still in the mix that's 3 faith per city so you'd be more likely to be the first to found a religion and possibly even the first pantheon.
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|Aug 22, 2012, 12:19 PM
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Agree about Ethiopia. And also Egypt, with the legalism trick for his free UB at a right time of the game.
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|Aug 22, 2012, 12:40 PM
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|Aug 22, 2012, 12:55 PM
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I would have also added Carthage with its UB, although it couldn't be built in every city.
|Aug 22, 2012, 01:08 PM
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Honestly, Pagodas are very bad in ICS, as are those other faith buildings. No matter how many shrines and temples you spam you simply can't afford one in every city and as you progress into each era they become even more annoyingly expensive. Welcome to the modern era where every pagoda costs something like 800 faith, when you should be saving up for a G-something.
Anything that improves shrines and/or temples - asceticism, religious center, etc. are the best ICS follower beliefs.
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I'm sure many of you have heard of the latest ''NYPD ticketing scandal''. New York City police officers have to fulfill supervisor imposed quotas and face demotion if they don't fulfill them and are rewarded with higher evaluations, promotions and bonuses if they exceed said quotas. As a result of this incentivizing of arresting people, a sub culture of corruption and crime has proliferated.
Several NYPD officers have been arrested by the feds for cases of smuggling guns, smuggling illegal cigarettes, ticketing people and even planting drugs on innocent people.
1.) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ent-people-meet-arrest-quotas.html
2.) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...icted-of-planting-crack-on-couple/
3.) http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/...igate-nypds-culture-of-corruption/
4.) http://www.politickerny.com/2011/10/...s-indictments-and-police-protests/
I assume most members of this board are white, but the question remains: Do you still feel safe in New York?
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The Department of the Interior (Interior) is responsible for managing much of the nation's vast natural resources. Its agencies implement an array of programs intended to protect these resources for future generations while also allowing certain uses of them, such as recreation and oil and gas development. In some cases, Interior is authorized to collect royalties and fees for these uses. Over the years, GAO has reported on management challenges at Interior, which are largely characterized by the struggle to balance the demand for greater use of its resources with the need to conserve and protect them. Furthermore, given the government's long-term fiscal challenges, Interior faces difficult choices in balancing its responsibilities. This testimony highlights some of the major management challenges facing Interior today. It is based on prior GAO reports.
As GAO's previous work has shown, Interior faces major management challenges in the following seven areas: (1) Strengthening resource protection: Interior has not yet developed a cohesive strategy to address wildland fire issues as GAO has recommended in the past. In addition, Interior faces challenges in adapting to climate change and protecting and securing federal lands from illegal activities. (2) Strengthening the accountability of Indian and insular area programs: Having a land base is important to Indian tribal governments. Concerns remain about the effect of a February 2009 Supreme Court decision on the process for taking land in trust for tribes and their members. In addition, seven insular areas--four U.S. territories and three sovereign island nations--continue to face financial, program management, and economic challenges. (3) Improving federal land acquisition and exchanges: As the steward of more than 500 million acres of federal land, land sales, acquisitions, and exchanges are important land management functions for the department. The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act of 2000 has had limited success and Interior needs to better manage land exchanges and protect federal funds. (4) Reducing Interior's deferred maintenance backlog: While Interior has made progress improving information on maintenance needs, the dollar estimate of the deferred maintenance backlog for fiscal year 2010 was between $13.5 billion and $19.9 billion. (5) Management of federal oil and gas resources: GAO designated Interior's management of federal oil and gas resources as a governmentwide high-risk area in February 2011. Interior faces ongoing challenges in four broad areas: (1) oil and gas revenue collection, (2) management of human capital, (3) reorganization of the bureaus dealing with oil and gas issues, and (4) balancing timely and efficient oil and gas development with environmental stewardship responsibilities. (6) Generating revenue and enhancing financial assurances and bonds: Additional revenues could be generated by amending the General Mining Act of 1872 so that the federal government could collect federal royalties on minerals extracted from U.S. mineral rights. In addition, financial assurances and bonds from hardrock mining and oil and gas operations could be enhanced to help ensure the reclamation of federal land disturbed by these operations. (7) Improving information security: Interior has been challenged to effectively protect its computer systems and networks. The department has not consistently implemented effective controls to prevent, limit, and detect unauthorized access to its systems or manage the configuration of network devices to prevent unauthorized access and ensure system integrity. GAO has made a number of recommendations intended to improve Interior's programs by enhancing the information it uses to manage its programs and strengthening internal controls. Interior has agreed with most of the recommendations and taken some steps to implement them. However, Interior has been slow to implement other recommendations, such as developing a cohesive wildland fire strategy and improving oversight of oil and gas activities.
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Climate Change:Information on NOAA's Support for States' Marine Coastal Ecosystem Resilience EffortsGAO-16-834: Published: Sep 28, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 28, 2016.
Federal Fisheries Management:Additional Actions Could Advance Efforts to Incorporate Climate Information into Management DecisionsGAO-16-827: Published: Sep 28, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 28, 2016.
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Waste Management:DOD Has Generally Addressed Legislative Requirements on the Use of Burn Pits but Needs to Fully Assess Health EffectsGAO-16-781: Published: Sep 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 26, 2016.
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Grants Management:EPA Could Improve Certain Monitoring PracticesGAO-16-530: Published: Jul 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 15, 2016.
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Army Corps of Engineers:Additional Steps Needed for Review and Revision of Water Control ManualsGAO-16-685: Published: Jul 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 26, 2016.
Levee Safety:Army Corps and FEMA Have Made Little Progress in Carrying Out Required ActivitiesGAO-16-709: Published: Jul 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 26, 2016.
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Oil and Gas:Interior Could Do More to Account for and Manage Natural Gas EmissionsGAO-16-607: Published: Jul 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 21, 2016.
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Environmental Protection Agency:Status of Efforts to Address Nonpoint Source Water Pollution through the Section 319 ProgramGAO-16-697R: Published: Jul 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 14, 2016.
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Polar Satellites:NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather DataGAO-16-773T: Published: Jul 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2016.
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PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. - A car fire closed down the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 overnight.
The car caught fire on the shoulder near Griffin Road and could be seen on our Live View Traffic Network cameras.
Fire crews arrived at the scene and were able to put out the flames.
No word on if anyone was hurt in this situation. The cause of the fire is not known, but the scene has since been cleared.
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The average water temperature in our area is holding in the lower 70s and that has triggered a good flounder bite. Shallow areas like Tubbs Inlet and Dunn Sound, S.C., and Hogg Inlet S.C., have all produced numbers of small flounder the last few weeks. As the water temperature has continued rise and is holding around 70 degrees even in our surf zones, deeper areas have started to show signs of life. Places like the Little River (S.C.) jetties, Shallotte Inlet and Lockwood Folly have all seen more flounder this week with solid keepers in the mix.
What a difference a few years makes. When I first started writing this column almost 13 years ago, I remember speaking with Marcia Heady. At that time, she was the athletics director for West Brunswick High School.
"We can't get enough kids to field a golf team," she moaned. "We have to beg kids to play. We hardly need tryouts. It's sad, because we live in the golf capital of the world and our kids just aren't into golf."
BOLIVIA — Brunswick Community College beat Wake Tech 10-4 in the first game of a baseball doubleheader Saturday at Founders Field.
VIDEO: Jelonnie Smith wins the 100 in MEC 3A meet. Anna Shelton is second. Natyra Gore is third.
The Ashley High School baseball team beat West 3-2 April 28 in Wilmington, ending the Trojans' 19-game winning streak.
The Screaming Eagles scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh on a double, an intentional walk and a single.
The loss prevented West from clinching a tie for the Mideastern 3A/4A Conference title. West is 9-1 in the conference with two games left. The Trojans are 20-2 overall.
West pitcher Kevin Powers gave up four hits and one earned run in seven innings. He walked one, hit one and struck out five.
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OCEAN ISLE BEACH — South Brunswick senior Dalton Adams and sophomore John Pratt and won the Mideastern Conference 3A championship tennis tournament April 28 at Ocean Isle Beach Park Tennis Center.
The South doubles team beat West Brunswick's Kevin Gore and Tyler Mayo in three sets.
All four players also qualified for a North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3A regional, which is a qualifier for the state tournament.
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All veterans, reserves and active duty personnel are receiving free admission to the Greeley Stampede's rodeo Thursday night with proof of identification.
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Professor Mel Chen's beautiful, provocative and inspirational book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke Univ. Press, 2012). has won the MLA's Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize. This prize is given for an outstanding book in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer studies in literature and cultural studies. Congratulations Mel!
Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Mel is also an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the Science and Technology Studies Center, and the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences.
Mel Y. Chen is Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for Berkeley's Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research and teaching interests include queer and gender theory, animal studies, critical race theory and Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics, they also enjoy affiliation with Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, and the Haas Disability Studies and LGBTQ Citizenship Research Clusters. Chen's 2012 book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press, winner of Alan Bray Award from Modern Language Association's GL/Q Caucus), explores questions of racialization, queering, disability, and affective economies in animate and inanimate "life" through the extended concept of "animacy." A second book project concerns the relationships among the conceptual territories of "toxicity" and "intoxication" and their involvement in histories of the shared interanimation of race and disability. Further writing on topics such as cognitive disability and method, animal gendering in film, the racialization of pollution, and queer intimacies can be found in the journals Women's Studies Quarterly, GLQ, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Discourse, Women in Performance, Australian Feminist Studies, Amerasia, Worldviews, and Medical Humanities (forthcoming). A co-edited special issue (with Dana Luciano) of GLQ on "Queer Inhumanisms" appeared in early 2015. With Jasbir K. Puar, Chen coedits a book series entitled "Anima," highlighting scholarship in critical race and disability post/in/humanisms at Duke University Press. Chen is serving a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Society for Disability Studies.
In the Fall of 2009, Mel convened "Species Spectacles", a U.C. Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Group focused on animality, sexuality and race. Chen's short film, Local Grown Corn (2007), explores interweavings of immigration, childhood, illness and friendship; it has played in both asian and queer film festivals.
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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press, Perverse Modernities series). 2012.
"Asian American Speech, Civic Place, and Future Nondisabled Bodies," Amerasia Journal, 39:1, 91-105. 2013.
"Masked States and the 'Screen' Between Security and Disability." Women's Studies Quarterly, 40:1-2, 76-96. 2012.
"Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 17:2-3, 265-286. 2011.
"Animals without Genitals: Race and Transsubstantiation." Women in Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 20:3, 285-297. 2010.
"Everywhere Archives: Transgendering, Trans Asians, and the Internet." Australian Feminist Studies. 25:64, 199-208. 2010.
"Queer Vibrations." In Media Res. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/05/06/queer-vibrations. May 6, 2010.
"Racialized Toxins and Sovereign Fantasies." Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 29:2, 367-383. 2007.
"Affect in Language Interpretation." In Michael Achard and Suzanne Kemmer, eds. Language, Culture, and Mind. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 37-54. 2004.
"The Space of Identity: A Cognitivist Approach to 'Outsider' Discourses." In Anna Duszak, ed. Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 87-110. 2002.
"Crossing Performativities: 'Reclaiming' as Both Utterance and Gender Construction." In Celia Rothenberg and Gail Currie, eds. Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject. Oxford and New York: Lexington Press, 239-260. 2000.
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal.
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Facing Dallas' biggest rival on Monday Night Football last night, Tony Romo battled injuries, a fierce pass rush and problems with his supporting cast.
Romo has had a career full of ups and downs in Dallas, with highs like last week's OT win in San Francisco and lows like fumbling a hold in Seattle that bumped Dallas out of the playoffs.
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Texas added fewer jobs in December, but the state's unemployment rate falls to 6.1 percent (Updated 10:30 a.m. with chart)
Texas employers added fewer jobs in December, but the state's unemployment rate declined for the fourth straight month.
Texas' jobless rate fell to 6.1 percent last month from 6.2 percent in November and from 7.4 percent a year earlier, according to data released today by the Texas Workforce Commission. The state's rate is much lower than the national jobless rate of 7.8 percent for December.
For all of 2012, Texas added more jobs (260,800) than any other state in 2012, but job growth has slowed since October.
In December, Texas employers added 4,100 nonfarm jobs, the second straight month of fewer jobs than the previous month.
Nationally last month, 22 states saw lower unemployment rates, 16 states and Washington, D.C., had higher rates and 12 states saw no change from November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
"2012 was a strong year for Texas and my hope is that the Texas economy will build on that success in 2013," said Texas Workforce Commission chairman Andres Alcantar.
Nearly 99 percent of Texas' 260,800 new jobs in 2012 were in the private sector. Texas Workforce Commissioner for employers Tom Pauken attributed much of the private sector growth to the energy industry, which is spurring job growth in many other industries.
Nationally, unemployment rates fell in 42 states and Washington, D.C., rose in six states and remained the same in two states in the last year, according to the BLS.
In Texas, six of 11 major industries added jobs in December, led by 13,300 jobs added in professional and business services. Manufacturing added 3,000 jobs, the oil and gas industry added 1,600 jobs and education and health services added 1,300 jobs.
Among the industries that lost the most jobs last month were: government (-7,700), construction (-4,100), leisure and hospitality (-3,700) and financial (-1,300).
Across Texas, unemployment rates rose in all but two of the state's metropolitan areas, including the Dallas and Fort Worth areas, from November to December. None of those figures are adjusted for seasonal fluctuations, whereas the state unemployment rate is seasonally adjusted.
The Dallas area's jobless rate rose to 5.9 percent last month from 5.8 percent in November, but it was down from 7 percent in December 2011. The Fort Worth area's jobless rate rose to 5.7 percent in December from 5.6 percent in November, but it was down from 6.8 percent in December 2011.
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Nature is reclaiming the ruins of a century-old dam in eastern ManitobaWalking amid the crumbling ruins of the Pinawa Dam feels a bit like stumbling onto the set of a post-apocalyptic movie
Seeing the real Morocco in a High Atlas Mountains marathonThe best way to know a land — particularly one as geographically enchanting as Morocco — is by foot
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Forest bathing: A mindful walk in the woods, no getting wetIn Japan, it's called "shinrin-yoku," which translates as forest bathing. It's the practice of immersing yourself in nature to improve your well-being
Route 66: A song for the next generation of road-trippersIn honour of the song's 70th anniversary, we update the lyrics with new destinations
Get off the beaten path for the best foliage, killer selfiesStunning fall vistas
How to plan your life-changing (but expensive) safariPro advice: plan well ahead, stay in tents and consider going in spring instead of summer
A four-day visit to New Brunswick: From St. John to the Acadian CoastFredericton has a pretty riverfront with lovely public space. It's a great spot for a bike ride or sunset stroll
Montreal prepares for year-long 375th birthday bash in 2017Giant puppets, street parties and social media-savvy bridge lights are just some of the ways Montreal is planning to celebrate its 375th birthday next year
At the heart of the Thousand Islands, Gananoque is full of surprisesThis eastern Ontario town is a surprising blend of everything from shimmering rivers to sensational shopping
Artists' homes in Catskills tell story of Hudson River SchoolOn either side of the Hudson River, two artists' homes tell the story of that famous genre of American landscape painting known as the Hudson River School
In Vancouver Island's rain forest, a treehouse hotel fit for a hobbitFree Spirit Spheres are what J.R.R. Tolkien's magical elvish kingdom in the tree canopy might look like in 21st-century Canada
Surprise: You don't need a car (or truck) to enjoy DallasAsphalt and concrete have defined Dallas since a north-south "central expressway" was envisioned in the early 1900s for a stretch of railroad right-of-way
Canadian 'Napolean and Paris' exhibition highlights luxury and ambitionExperience highlights of the French Emperor's career at the Canadian Museum of History's "Napolean and Paris" exhibition
The incredible secrets inside the walls of the Waldorf AstoriaIn a city where glitzy debuts fade to boring old spots within a matter of months, the iconic Waldorf Astoria has endured for 85 years
St. John's hosts Inuit-themed nuit blanche celebration with dozens of eventsA multi-faceted arts event called iNuit blanche will feature more than two dozen free Inuit-themed happenings across downtown St. John's on Oct. 8, organizers say
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Planet Discovery reveals a new exhibition " The Human Puzzle. Planet Discovery, will inaugurate on Wednesday 12th December at noon a new exhibition under the name "The Human Puzzle" that comprises all aspects of the Aspirin medication and the various roles that muscles play in the human body.
New TV – Television Show. و لا أطيب show live on New TV in Beirut Souks on Dec. 13
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JLC – Store Opening. JLC will be inaugurating its new store in the Souks on December 6, from 18:00 to 21:00
L'Occitane en Provence. L'Occitane en Provence store will be promoting their products from June 15 until June 23 in Souk Tawila
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Axillary nerve dysfunction is nerve damage that leads to a loss of movement or sensation in the shoulder.
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Axillary nerve dysfunction is a form of
The usual causes are:
- Direct trauma
- Long-term pressure on the nerve
- Pressure on the nerve from nearby body structures
- Shoulder injury
Entrapment creates pressure on the nerve where it passes through a narrow structure.
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Fractureof the upper arm bone (humerus)
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Historical Traveler Reviews The Dawson Hotel & Spa Dublin
Great location, lovely staff BUT...
just not the luxury hotel I expected to waste my hard earned cash on.
No lobby, no atomosphere and check out your room first.
My husband, bless him, was treating me to a special anniversary night away and I felt disappointed for him, so let down. Staff are lovely but I had a bad feeling when hubby was checking in and I went to visit the ladies. Drinks from the previous night were still sitting at the side of wash-hand basins and place looked dirty. Ok it was 9am in the morning. Didn't get to see our room until 6pm later that day as we went straight out to enjoy the city. In spite of being told our bags were in our room, they were not and had to be tracked down. And what a room. Parisian bedspreads that had seen better days, chipped shabby furniture, solitary bottle of Becks trying its best to look 'cool' in the mini-bar and no room service menu. No tea and coffee making facilities in room because I'm told by a globe-trotting friend that people who stay in 'luxury' hotels do not make their own. After dinner in nearby restaurant you fight your way through a packed bar of 18-30s to get to the room lifts. And you get to breakfast in that very same bar next morning. No thanks. Did voice our disappointment next morning and were told they'd get back to us and look after us very well next time. NO THANKS - that's what we thought we were paying for the first time. Still waiting to hear back. Look it obviously wasn't what we expected but it is very central, has some great shops,cafes and restaurants nearby and some very nice hotels too. It's time it was refurbished and brought back to the standard expected of La Stampa brand.
I'm off to the west of Ireland next week so let's hope I do better there!!
Could do better
I also agree this hotel was a little on the tired side. Things just did not seem as pristine as they could have been. We also had a problem with hot water coming from the shower, although bizarrly enough the bath tap water was wonderfully hot!!! The mini bar was left empty, and we had to ring twice for someone to bring a bottle of still water (they brought us TWO bottles of sparkling - charging us for both) At breakfast my boyfriend found the cooked breakfast too greasy, and I had to ask and then wait for a glass of orange juice because the jugs on the breakfast table were all empty. However on a positive note the beds were gloriously comfortable, and decor very luxurios. Location was fantastic, and the adjoining bar was very relaxing with low lighting and high heavy oak tables. Nice hotel which has unfortunately allowed standards to slip.
Could be great - but is not now
This hotel has the perfect location in Dublin, and has a nice sense of style. No substance, however. It feels "used" - loose tiles in the bathroom, moldy shower curtain, broken window handle. There could be a nice ambiance despite the fact that there is no lobby area (there was salsa dancing in the restaurant area on our last night), but it just doesn't come together. Service is not great - friendly, but non-effective.
OK, Expected More From A 4*
My boyfriend and I visited this hotel in April. I was fairly happy with the hotel; however read the following;
Bathroom :- There was no hot water at night time only in the morning. Tried having a shower at 7pm before dinner and ran the shower for 10 mins and it was still freezing. Complimentary shower and bath gel. New towels on the 2nd day. Bed made.etc.
Room:- Bed Lovely and comfy!
View:- Had a view of a crane doing work at the side of the hotel. Workmen regularly walked past our window had to close curtains which made room dark.
Breakfast:- Very poor.
Staff:- Porter carried our bags to room and seemed very nice. One man seemed to do all the work, he was the porter, answering phones, served breakfast, vacumed the floor, brought hair dryer to the room, etc... Unless he had an identical twin he worked 24/7!
Location:- Excellent, close to the shops and st steven's green. Did have to walk a fair distance to find a chinese restaurant though.
Car Parking:- The reception had told me that they had no facilities. Stayed at Dawson St Carpark around the corner. Was freting at how much it would cost for two nights - paniced when we realised it would be about 60-70 euro! ridulous. However the same man we saw when we left the car was there when we left and i managed to talk him into giving us discount because we are 'poor students'!
He told us the reason they do not do discounts with la stampa anymore is because they got fed up with the hotel not paying their bills, so they want nothing to do with them anymore. He does discount with a hotel around the corner and he made us pretend we stayed there to get the discount (very fun stuff!)
Check out:- I took ill on our 2nd day and wanted to go home the following morning early, however when i gave them my debit card to pay the machine broke and wouldnt take my card even though i had used it the previous day several times. This was very annoying as the receptionist had to go through a long process of phoning the back to get a security number to type into the machine. This wasted 45mins!
Overall this was an ok stay I expected more of a four star and will not be forking out that amount of money again when i could've received better from a 3 star!
Going down hill fast
My company used this hotel when I stayed in Dublin some time ago. Back then it was quite good and I was impressed. I stayed here twice here in teh past few months and I must say, what a disapointment.
First off they wanted 160 euro a room, mid week. I said I used to stay here at 100 and without an challenge at all they said OK, try it !
They have no car parking facility so to park the car in the near by Dawson Car park from 17:00 until 08:30 costs over 20 euro. They used to give parking vouchers for this but have ceased the practice.
There are alot of stairs and not for the faint hearted. Do not stay on the right hand side of the hotel, avoid all rooms with an uneven number. The hotel is right above one of Dublins disco bars and next door to Dublins biggest pub, stays open until near three at weekends. You can hear every beat of every dance tune. The air conditioner units for these place are also right outside the wondows so you can hear that when the music stops.
The beds are nice and big, but they used to give you extras like dressing gowns and the mini bars were stocked. Now the mini bars are empty and dressing gowns gone. You will also notice items coming off in your hands !
It is a pity as the restaurant is quite good, there are better in Dublin, and teh location is excellent.
There is a huge staff shortage, or it appears. If you ring for an iron or hair dryer it's the receptionist who brings it to you and you can wait for up to an hour !!....also check that they work - they have a tendency not to and then you wait another hour ! Breakfast is adequate.
Overall, if it wasn't for the location I would never stay here. If you want a good nights sleep, make sure you join the revellers and stay out very late and have a few night caps to ensure you sleep. Then you won't have any difficulties. Very average, not worth more that 100 (very max)/room (two people) and make sure that includes breakfast.
Saying all that I must have stayed there 30 times over the past 5 years, but in the last year only twice as my usual hotels were booked out..last resort.
Great position
We read a lot about the hotel on the internet and found it quite interesting.
I think that the reception area needs some improvement in line with the keeping of the rest of the hotel. Rooms were great with lovely velvet bed covers and very comfy duvets. Bathrooms were very smart. However, lots of stairs to climb which is not so good for anyone who is not that active. La Stampa Brasserie was stunning and such a welcome surprise as the decor was stunning. Food was very good and the waiting staff could not do enough for you. Breakfasts were adequate - The Mandala Spa was truly amazing and the Thai staff were a pleasure to deal with. Luxury at its best.
Great Staff, Location and Food! A/C needs work!
Myself and My Wife stayed in La Stampa on the 13th December for one night and had a meal in the La Stampa Brasserie.
Firstly, the Hotel is perfectly located in the centre of Dublin, just off St. Stephen's Green and Grafton St (Main Shopping Street south of the river)
The hotel is beautifully decorated from the outside. We were met at reception by extremely friendly and helpful staff who took our bags and directed us to the nearby complimentary overnight car park.
The inside of the hotel is spotlessly clean, however it does not have a lift and the wall paper in the corridors could really do with being changed...its very new but the colour is dreadful!
The rooms are very nice, comfortable bed, beautiful marble bathroom but the air conditioning doesn't seem to work as it should so the room can become quite warm. Im sure it would have been fixed if we asked as the staff couldn't do enough to help
We had a meal at the wonderful La Stampa Brasserie, the waiters are excellent, ambience superb and the food is devine. Its quite expensive but definetly worth it!
Breakfast was fine, cold buffet and then a choice of warm breakfasts
I would definetly recommend this hotel and restaurant. We stayed on a Monday night so i dont know if there would be a lot of noise from the club at the weekend. I would also encourage management to change the colour of the wallpaper in the halls! Staff were excellent and couldn't do enough for us! Food was superb if a little pricey.
Disappointed with La Stampa Hotel
We were very disappointed with La Stampa Hotel. Although the outside is beautiful and associated with wonderful restaurants, and is centrally located in a very vibrant part of town, the rooms do not live up to what is expected and what we paid. The pictures on the web site are not representative of what we got. The hall ways are dark and dreary, there is no elevator, the air conditioner did not work well, in 2 different rooms. There was no soap in our room when we checked in, a light bulb was burned out and the carpets looked stained and old.Breakfast was included with the room and was wonderful. The other restaurants associated with the hotel were expensive but delicious as well.
With that said, the people who worked there were as nice as could be and tried to do anything to make us happy. When they didn't have an electrical adaptor they went out and bought one. when they didn't have cream cheese, they ran next door to the bagel store and got some for us! Unfortnately, the physical part of the hotel was certainly not what i would call luxurious.
Not sure
Stayed in La Stampa Hotel for a few days over the summer. The rate was advertised as 200 euro but I asked for their best rate and with out anything further they gave me the room for 120 euro/night !
The room is very nice with a big marble bathroom. In the minibar I noticed that several of the drinks had been opened and put back in !
The air conditioner did not work, so had to call the desk and teh porter with the aid of a "key" turned it on. I had to go through this routine every day when I returned.
Be warned, the hotel is located over one disco bar and beside two others. Towards the weekend these bars play mucis until near 03:00, and believe me you can hear almost every beat. Ask for a room on the second floor, on the left hand side (even numbers I think), do not stay on the first floor on the right side, you will not sleep a wink. Also the air conditioning units are located outside the first floor windows on the right. It was hell on that floor !!
The restaurant down stairs in quite good, if expensive, don't go to the Thai, it's over priced and not very good. Breakfast in the hotel is however very good with a nice, if unusual hot breakfast menu.
Over all, it's central Dublin (trendy part of town), if you don't mind the noise or plan to be in by 03:00 you'll have no problems. The rooms are big and comfortable, just make sure the air conditioning is working. Not worth anything more that 120/night though.
Room for improvement
This hotel is in a great location and has very helpful staff. The rooms are a good size with minimal fuss comfy beds and lovely marble bathrooms. I think this hotel is quite new and is experiencing a few teething problems: no bin or soap in room and the air conditioning kept breaking. The rooms on the first floor are also above the hotel's very popular bar and the noise from this kept me awake on first night. After complaining about this the management could not do enough for us and we changed room and received a complimentary bottle of wine. They said that the noise is monitored and that this should not have happened. The hotel does not appear to have a lift and there are loads of stairs which was hard going. The bar and restaurants are excellent if a little pricey.
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