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Windows 10 Home 64-bit running on an i5-8400. Steam version of the base game plus Rise and Fall. No mods (ever). DX11 selected in the launcher. The game hangs on the in-between-turn, with the "other civs taking their turns" message displayed. No CTD, and I still have access to some of the menu...

Mine was drawn specifically for me, by Nick Krain (who is now a Director of animated cartoons, working in Hollywood!). I worked with him back near the start of his career, on the Untalkative Bunny project. He was Storyboards, and I was Leica Edit (that's what Choreography is called in cartoons)...

Hi- Got the Culper Cell quest (establish network in X) but the city got whacked just before my Intel mission would have completed. I assume that the whole quest-line just went down the toilet? No big deal... I wasn't planning to base my play on spies on this occasion anyway. Just thought...

I'm a terribly bad CIV player, but I enjoy the game(s). I just play for fun, and often deliberately make sub-optimal choices... looking for fun rather than efficiency... when it comes to picking my Sponsor, my initial load-out, my tech path and affinities, etc. What about you?

ITT we can compile a list of tactical tricks and strategic tips for the Starships game. I'll be back to post one or two... as soon as I figure out how to play the game. In the meantime: got any favorite plans or tactics?

I've noticed that the recent patches have changed several game mechanics... most notably, a Trade Depot only gives one trade route instead of two until your city reaches population-10 and receives a second trade route. Also, the Ectogenesis Pod no longer boosts Farm production by +1... instead...

Just as an experiment, I would like to try being filthy rich. At least, in Civ-5, since I can't seem to manage it in real life. Which combination BNW CIV (no DLC) and strategy would you suggest?

Hi - Playing standard BNW from Steam, no mods or DLC. Current version as of early May 2014. Running Windows-7 64-bit with integrated graphics, game played on the strategy map (since my computer can't support full graphics mode). First noticed this bug in a game on the slowest time-control...

Yesterday evening I was reading a book on Meteorites (by Smith, Russel and Benedix) when I came across something that instantly arrested my attention: God, that looked familiar... wait a minute! I ran upstairs and started dragging rocks out of my closet. ... "That's my MOON...

The scientists working on the T2K neutrino analysis project have announced that they now have enough data collected to confirm that neutrino oscillations do violate Charge-Parity conservation. This result offers an explanation for the excess of matter over anti-matter in the universe, since C-P...

... just askin'. Hearts of Iron III had a really rocky release... and I do know what I'm talking about there, I was in the closed beta. With the release of the expansion packs "Semper Fi" and "For the Motherland", it has become a far better and more polished game. I consider it a highly...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have isolated a gene from the DNA of the Balsam Fir Tree which will enable them to replace ambergris with an equally effective synthetic compound; potentially revolutionizing the perfume industry. This news should come as a relief to any whales on...

This is a re-post of the AAR that I am writing over on the Paradox forum, as a submission to TheLoneGunman's contest to win a free copy of Crusader Kings II. The contest rules are simple: Each of us must download the official CK-II Demo, play a short game (twenty years, 1066-1086) using...

EU-3 Divine Wind v5.1, Easy difficulty, all other settings Normal. First off... a confession: I am an EU-3 noob. I've played it just enough times to realize that I'm wretchedly bad at the game. My Muscovy 1399 campaign ended with me getting annexed in only eleven years... which must be pretty...

Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer's corpse will be exhumed for genetic testing in a P140 million (~$3 million US) paternity suite: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/262901/jinky-s-mother-hoping-land-a-job-government http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37760170/...

I'm a relative noob at CIV-4, and have a few questions regarding War Weariness: 1) I know that you can see another Civ's WW just by mousing-over the Leader's name at the bottom right of the main screen... but is there any way to determine your own WW? 2) How fast does your WW wear off? On...