Recent content by overholt93

Thanks for all the thoughts. Both the 1.5 rule of thumb and "I build a new worker if my city is working an unimproved time" were particularly helping. I think what happened that I wound up with not enough workers was that I had a lot of fish - and I spent the time I normally spend building...

What's the common wisdom was on how many workers is "enough"? I find myself chronically underbuilding them. My first two or three I'm fairly aggressive about building, but after that I feel like I habitually underbuild - because I don't like shutting down my cities growth for a couple turns...

I'm trying to do some corruption calculations, and reading the corruption doc I see that one of the variables for #city corruption is: "L is the percentage of optimal cities for the current difficulty level, as given in the editor" I'm on a Mac, I have no editor. What are the default...

Thanks for the quick responses. I am running Tiger (10.4.11) and the old MacSoft game (1.29b2). Oddly, the problem seems to have gone away -- I reproduced the crash a dozen times yesterday morning and the night before, but when I got home from work last night and started trouble-shooting, I...

I've recently started playing Civ III again after a long hiatus (Complete wasn't out yet the last time I played). I have vanilla Civ III for the mac, fully updgraded, with some version of the GOTM mod installed. I'm playing on one of the Intel macs. After downloading the updated executable...

Regarding the idea of a "Vanilla Training Game" series: I like the idea - I'd make use of it - but I'm not sure it's necessary. There are enough noble and prince games in the previous GOTM that, as a newcomer in need of training, I can find one and play it as if it were current (download the...

That's good to know. Thank you. I'd hoped that was available somewhere, but I didn't know where. And I hadn't poked around in the results threads because I didn't want to get any spoilers. I may be too late to actually submit the game, but I want to develop good habits.

Really? That surprises me -- one of the things that's always impressed me about the whole *OTM team is that you've always been good about including the mac platform, even though the game publishers have not kept the games terribly in synch. I'll have to make an entry to reward your efforts...

It does?! I didn't know that. It's good to hear that Civ works with multiple versions of the game. I'll try leaving my existing fully patched civ install alone and doing a new install of Civ in a different folder and patching it for pre-1.74 use. Thanks for the help. I will definitely...

Hmm. It looks like the mod location was my problem. Now that I'm running the mod from the correct location, I can open games 14, 15, and 16 as well. I thought I checked that last night, but I must have only tried games 10 and 13 from the correct location. I tried to open games 10 and 13 with...

I have Warlords on a mac (OS 10.4.11) that I applied the latest patch to a year ago when it was released. (And again today just to make sure) I looked at the GOTM site, and WOTM10 looked like an interesting start so I was going to try to play it and then look at the spoiler threads. I...

Excellent, thanks for the info. Is there somewhere I could have looked to find this out? I haven't had time to experience it much yet, but in theory, I really like Civ IV's handling of forests. It seems to model that particular aspect of human involvement with the forest much better than...

I just recently acquired Civ IV, and so far I've done some experimenting with the early game. I've read the strategy guides here, and I'm looking forward to playing a game the whole way through and trying them out -- I'm planning to sit in front of the computer all weekend. :-) But I've...