Recent content by readercolin

Good thing they removed it. I don't really care what your opinion about global warming is in real life, all that it was in game was a hassle that you couldn't predict and couldn't do anything about. That being said, I am a bit annoyed that they removed random events - I loved being able to get...

Russia, just because I have a feeling that resources are going to be very important, especially with my play style, so I don't want to be shorted ;) -Colin

As has been mentioned, certain spells (notably, bloom, and resurrection... I can't currently think of another one) have a casting delay, where you click the spell, wait a bit, and then it will cast the spell a few turns later. If you look in the civilopedia for the spell, it will tell you if it...

just a note, Law 3 isn't unyielding order in the base game. Unyielding order is available to high priests of order, or druids upgraded from confessors (the easiest way to get them, IMO). -Colin

Channeling gives "reduced chance to defend the stack". Basically what this means is that each level of channeling reduces the units chance to defend the stack by 25%. This means that an adept with channeling 1, but no combat promotions, counts as a unit of strength 2.25 for the purposes of...

Lysara the Frostmaiden, one of the hero's for the white hand. Is she supposed to get heroic? (aka, she doesn't have it at the moment). -Colin

Issues with the Malakim. At the moment, all their terrain turns to desert, which they get 1:food: and 1:commerce: from. The problem is, unless they settle right next to a river, they become rather food starved, as there is no way for them to get enough food to live off their terrain without...

I'm getting Duel CTD's when playing on standard size maps with my girlfriend and I. Every game that we've played, sometime after tun 150 or so, there is a CTD for both of us, and the only thing that pops up is "civ 4 has stopped working". We haven't tried playing past these CTD's yet, so I...

To address your responses: Survival - we'll see as we go along i guess. I just would rather have this available later GoN - The primary issue I have here is that even with running FoL, after about size 14, unless you have other sources of health, even the forest cities will begin to experience...

Actually, you can get it a bit better with a flesh golem (its easiest with the calibam, and their vampire lords can summon them too). It also definately isn't OO specific. How to do it: strength 17 - OO high priest, summon kraken, feed kraken to flesh golem. Next best options are phalanxes...

To start, go to Top Ten tips for your favorite civs. Most of the civs have been talked about in there, if there is one that hasn't, post a request and someone will write up a bit for it. Once you've read that, if you have any specific questions, please ask them and we'll try to help you...

I have some issues with the civics, and some questions about what exactly you're trying to accomplish with them. I'll address them by category. Other balance issues I'll address in separate posts. Economy: Government : Legal Labor Cultural Values Religion -Colin

Just had a bug: Could not find file Sounds/Soundtrack/Ancient/MTW_Olivia_01 it did not cause any crashes, but it did pop up (this is with Orbis 1.0a, playing as the Palatinate) Edit: More missing soundtracks Could not find file Sounds/Soundtrack/Ancient/MTW_Persian_Pyjamas_01 Could not find...

do you want this thread devoted just to AI, or also to issues that we have with the game balance? -Colin

The only things that do not allow buying with gold are the starting civic, apprenticeship, and slavery - arete, caste system, and guilds all allow buying with gold option. This means that both caste system and guilds are equal on that note. The bigger issue with StW is it requires ashen...