Recent content by DrSpock

I think that would be a good compromise. It would definitely make those units useful again. I think improving the options available for a player to use is always a good thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by "in real life they contributed not much to society". Many, many people secured their passage to the New World by becoming an Indentured Servant because they could not afford passage. Your home country of Australia was populated largely by former inmates of debtors...

I'm trying your mod after having given up on Colonization shortly after having bought it. You have definitely succeeded making this game into what it should have been from the get-go. I do have one issue, however. I don't understand the reasoning behind not allowing Indentured Servants/Petty...

I have the same two big problems with this patch that I had with the unofficial patch. A. There should be 0 increase in the cost of education as new colonists are educated. There is no real world reason for education taking longer, and it is just a cheap game gimmick to increase difficulty...

It really is by far the most unprofessional major development studio I've ever seen. How any company, in any field, could possibly allow their website(s) to be as poorly maintained as Firaxis does is just a mystery. I think thus far Firaxis has been successful capitalizing on the success of...

I, for one, am not buying anything from Firaxis again. The unplayable quality of this game, and the complete lack of support for it thus far is just unacceptable for a AAA company. It's just pathetic that the 15 year old version of Colonization is superior to the new version. In all the...

I assume you have never played Zelda or Mario games either because of the "damsel in distress" nature of those franchises? I would think being a female gamer it would be par for the course that games tend to feature more males than females. That is not to say they couldn't have made some...

I stopped playing this game the 2nd day after I bought it upon noticing how after wasting hours building up colonies and building schools/colleges/universities in them that they were all essentially useless since the cost for education increases for some reason beyond me. The degree to which...

I have gone back and played the old one, and except for the game being slow performance-wise by today's standards, and the occasional freeze, it is superior to the new version in almost all aspects except combat, which Colonization was never primarily about anyway. It really is kind of...

Funny how nice the little things were. Those pictures every time you achieved something are missed. Not to mention the colony and Europe screens look worse than the ones from the original!

It really is sad that a small game company could in 1994 release an approximately 5MB game with almost no bugs, but in 2008 a massive game company like Firaxis releases a game in as poor shape as this one is. The standards game companies put themselves to nowadays is really pathetic...

Why not eliminate the education cost increase? It worked in the original game perfectly well, I don't see why it wouldn't work here.

The education system is just completely broken. For starters, it would be nice if it actually worked the way the Civilopedia says it is supposed to and not cost money on top of the training. In my opinion, it is a completely game ruining bug having each successive colonist take longer to...

You think I am trolling for making suggestions and trying to have a civil discussion? Who is the one raving like a lunatic? Perhaps you have some anger issues you need to work out if you get so offended at any criticism of your work. If you even fully read either of my posts, I acknowledged...

I still think having religion specific wonders is silly. It is against the whole spirit of what Firaxis made the religions in the game to be. What you're basically saying is that you want historical accuracy, well then ALL wonders should be restricted to only specific civilizations that actually...