Recent content by smartus

I hope this expansion will feature a pitboss server without the need of peer2peer communication. That would help a lot!

If I circumnavigate the globe in a MP team game, will my teammates have the same +1 bonus to sea movement? (What else my teammates share?)

Can I ask you for 1152x864 version? It's not a very common screen resolution, but I play some pitboss games :)

In MultiPlayer, can I capitulate to another player and continue as his vassal?

I have a very fresh experience from a multiplayer game. I was attacked by joint forces of two players. Their stack consisted of Horse Archers and Praetorians, guarded by a bunch of spearmen and archers. The situation was desperate, but I managed to get enough catapults to the border and with a...

Is there a thread about multiplayer tactics? I usually play on emperor, I beat a lot of Human players, but I suck at early MP warfare. Last game I was nearly destroyed at the beginning by player playing Mao (Drill I archers...).

I agree, I think it's all about the DirectX.

Wait, are you playing with NO patches? Are you sure? There is the About This Build option in the Advanced Menu, if you have Vanilla Civ (No Warlords), the Civ Version property should say 161. If there is anything lower, PATCH your game. The patches resolve a lot of problems with the game. The...

Virtual memory is stored on your HDD and CIV can be very resource demanding in the late game (especially when you play huge maps with a lot of nations). Do you have the latest patch? Are you playing a MOD? You can manually set more memory if you have enough free space on your HDD. Try some...

Are you sure? Didn't you save the game again in the same turn? Because if you didn't, that would mean, that the game actually alters the savegame file you are loading. I will check it out, but I doubt that... -- I started a game, saved. Loaded, loaded, loaded, loaded, saved again with...

You don't know me, yet you presume the worst... In fact I am trying to detect replaying. I wrote a little python script that logs saving and loading into an encrypted file. I hope it'll be a little bit better than the session counter because I suspect the game, that you can load the same...

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. So occasional reloading/replaying might be suspicious when the session starts before capturing a city, but a reload in peace times might go unnoticed.

I'd like to ask the player for a string after the Dawn of Man PopupInfo and store the variable in the savegame, so it will be available through the game. I tried to popup the window, but no luck ... I think I messed the Events. (Ok, I just don't know how to do it :)) And what about the...

Squirrel empire? Neat, is anybody going to MOD this? Please, please, please!

How do you distinguish between a session and a reload/replay? I mean when you have the savegame from the end of the game or the saved replay.