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So here's the scenario: While attempting the ridiculously impossible Ethiopian UHV, I am lucky enough to have an Egyptian city close my capital in the beginning. It flips to me, Egypt declares war, I get free troops, and I take all their cities. I manage to found Islam, then beat back...

Not necessarily so... If you are very powerful and the other civ fears you enough to give tribute, can't you just demand that they go to war like you would demand a tech, or gold? I always figured this is what AI's are doing when they ask me to go to war for free...

We all have the exact same problem, which no one else has, and we all use the same gfx card. How can it not be the card?

I agree Colm, these are some pretty broken UHV conditions if they can only be achieved by incredibly lucky goody huts. China gets Writing around Turn 20, while the fastest you can get it is Turn 25 or so, even though the Chinese go through Animal Husbandry, which is more expensive than Pottery...

That's about how it goes. On Monarch, China will almost always go Animal Husbandry -> Writing, and if it does, it'll always beat you to writing even if you start with the cheaper Pottery, despite the fact that they are still at pop 1 and producing less commerce than you are if you let your city...

join the club... everyone with geforce 2/4 has this problem.

Hi all, A bunch of us on the BTS bug reports forum with older Geforce cards are unable to see leader heads in-game in BTS, apparently because they now use pixel shader. Do you modding types know of any way to turn off the leaderheads' use of pixel shader so we can view them? We all have...

Hi all, A bunch of us on the BTS bug reports forum with older Geforce cards are unable to see leader heads in-game in BTS, apparently because they now use pixel shader. Do you modding types know of any way to turn off the leaderheads' use of pixel shader so we can view them? We all have...

Hi all... I started playing BTS but am having problems with opposing leaderheads showing up with transparency in the wrong places. In some cases, the leader does not appear at all except their hair, as if they were invisible. In others, the wrong parts of them are transparent. In the shot of...

Hi all... I started playing BTS but am having problems with opposing leaderheads showing up with transparency in the wrong places. In some cases, the leader does not appear at all except their hair, as if they were invisible. In others, the wrong parts of them are transparent. In the shot of...

Contrary to what I've read in the few other posts on the subject I was able to find in this forum, Civ 3 Conquests is fully playable in Virtual PC on a moderately fast G4. The trouble is, there are a number of roadblocks on the way that have convinced some people it doesn't work. Here's what...