Recent content by MentatYP

Agreed! You mean on the upgrade interface? Yeah, that's ridiculous. You can right-click items in the city build panel to get to Civilopedia.

Are you doing this in a text file like in Civ 5? If so, which file and where is it?

What I'm saying is you have the tools right in front of you. Nobody will have hacks this early in the life of the game, but you can play around with settings and find out for yourself what is eating so much performance as you put it. Be proactive!

You can easily experiment for yourself to find a comfortable balance between performance and visuals. The video settings have a detailed list of configurable options including AA, shadows, ambient occlusion etc. I'd think about playing with those to see if you can find the right balance. FYI...

That bug is infuriating. It's bad enough that there's no build queue, but on top of that I can't tell what the last thing I built was in order to remind myself of my plan and what I had planned to build next. Double whammy.

AI hates me if I'm too strong AI hates me if I'm too weak AI hates me if I build too many wonders etc. Is it even possible to maintain a friendly relationship with an AI civ?! Even civs that I've been doing peaceful and symbiotic business with for centuries (trading luxuries, research...

Why wouldn't decreasing military production times at least help? That along with tweaking what units the AI builds during a war would be an improvement I think. My experience so far has been that a) the AI can't recover quickly enough after exhausting units against my defensive wall to hold...

You can't sell/demolish buildings? What kind of ridiculousness is that?!

GT 230??? That made me do a double-take with the rest of your system specs. That is one underpowered card to go with that CPU and RAM. I have much less CPU and RAM than you but with an ATI 4870 and don't have any graphics issues.

It certainly does, if that's your bag. The more I think about it the more it seems like there could be a nice middle-ground compromise somehow. I just can't think of one right now.

One theme I see repeated many times in this thread and elsewhere is what I consider inaccurate use of the term "complex"/"complexity". There were more systems in Civ 4. I believe that to be fact, not opinion--please correct me if I'm wrong. But the way these systems were implemented in Civ 4...

This simple statement represents the fundamental shift in philosophy in Civ 5. You actually have to plan ahead now, and when you're in a bind it's not a quick flick of the sliders to get you out of it. So much of Civ 5 requires real planning and strategy, and so far I think it's a change for...

lemmy, I'm with you on the sliders. Now that I've played without them I see how they encouraged short term thinking rather than long term planning. Thinking back now, the massive pendulum swings that you could perform between the slider values was a bit silly. The new way is harder since you...

I played around a bit and here's what I think I've figured out: Neighboring civ land grab > resources > productive tiles I built a city with both fur and sheep 3 tiles to the northwest and a neighboring civ city 5 tiles to the east. The city screen highlighted some tiles to the east in...

Just one. I haven't bothered to do the try-and-reload game to see if it randomly picks every time or not, but it's definitely just one at a time.