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Does anyone here play "Age of Wonders: Planetfall"? I recently downloaded it from GOG. Despite years of playing CIV, I cannot figure out a good bit of what is going on in this game. If you play it, do you know if there is a manual or instructtions file available anywhere? The in game...

In the old forum format, there was a personal mail or messge section. I have not found such an area now. How do I send a PM in this new format? Also, is there a way to attach a file to the PM? I want to send a pdf to another member.

I just read a news article saying that Firaxis had announced this game (Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth) would be released this fall. Does anybody know anything about it? Beta testers? Insiders?

Has anyone used Windows 8 yet with CIV? I'm curious about whether or not CIV works properly under Windows 8 or not. As you all know, at some point in the steady march of OS "upgrades" older games stop working properly, if at all.

I am considering getting Windows 7 to play CIV and would like some advice from anyone already using it. Does CIV work equally well on the 32 bit and 64 bit versions? If so, which is better to get? My cpu is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Would it be worthwhile to pay the extra and get the Pro...

In my current game, for reasons that are not relevant, I have been avoiding teching or trading for astronomy. As the game progressed, I found myself in a position to tech combustion and I already had scientific method and forts on oil sources. Out of curiosity, I teched combustion and...

Every now and then someone asks why they can't get an AI to capitulate, even though it is getting trashed. The answers almost always seem to include a statement to the effect that you can't get a master to capitulate until all his vassals break away, so you should try to get that to happen...

I have been on the forums for more than six years now, counting the time before I registered. There are two things that I have never figured out about the forums. What are "Social Group" and "Friend" on the forums and how do they work? If there is an explanation somewhere on the forums, I...

It may not be CIV, but I think it appropriate to tip the hat, here in the Macintosh Forum, to Steve Jobs the creator of the Mac, who passed away yesterday. I ran across this on another web site and thought it appropriate. It is quoted from Jobs but applies to him as well. R.I.P. :sad:

I suspect that some short sighted individual at Aspyr hard coded CIV to look for the DVD-ROM in the internal CD/DVD drive. However, if I'm wrong, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to reset the game to look in an external CD/DVD drive? I bought an external drive with drawer loading specifically...

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what opening menu screen folks use in BTS and whether or not there is any correlation of that choice with the preferred style of game play. There are four choices for the opening screen background in unmodded BTS: CIV - the rotating globe view Warlords...

1. Now and then I see the term "troll" used. Does this signify "mean or nasty", as in the mythical monster, or trying to suck people in on a spurious post, as the word is used for a method of catching fish. 2. All the current members logged in used to be shown at the top of the general...

I just was looking at my Documents folder (for something else) and saw this folder "CivilizationIV Full of Resources", which is not inside the CIV folder but istead on the same level. I did not create it and never saw it before. I installed BUG earlier this spring. Did BUG install this and...

I wanted to try the dot mapping in BUG. The only thing that I could find was a BUG function that displayed a colored BFC, with my choice of color, and the city square at the center. It is activated by command-option-control-O. Is this the dot mapping function or is there a key command to...

I installed BUG (version 4.2), according to the instructions given elsewhere here in the Mac forum. I really liked all the information facilities included. However, BUG really messed up the operation of the CIV BTS map. I am running on a wide screen monitor. Unmodded CIV in all flavors...

I have now played two games of BTS, after many vanilla. I have installed the 3.19 patch but no mods, not even BUG. Although all other units have multiple colors, (same sort of thing as in vanilla) the Ships of the Line all show up in a solid color that matches the color of their empire, with...

I am considering purchasing a new computer. What would be the minimum requirements (CPU, CPU and bus speed, memory, and graphics card) to run CIV with huge maps, maximum graphics and sound settings, at a reasonable playing speed for individual (not over the net) play? I'm looking for minimums...

I have noticed that when I research calendar, the playing area map changes to cover a larger area with smaller details, the same as zooming out a ways. I am then not able to get back to the normal view. I can zoom out further and zoom in closer but I can't get the zoom to stop at the usual...