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Livonia, 1601: A solution has been found to the southern border question. For decades, centuries even, Lithuania has been on our southern border. For most of the 1500s, they were weak, but it wasn't ideal, for two reasons. The lesser reason is that they hated us, saying that we controlled...

Are you playing on a non-native resolution, or HiDPI (4K or similar)? It sounds odd that PrtScrn would minimize the window, although for most games, I've been using Steam's built-in F12 (which is configurable) for screenshots. For the Sim City 3000 succession secession (new players welcome!)...

Nobody expects... the Mamlukean Inquisition! I don't think I've ever seen the Mamluks get involved in the War of the Protestant League. IIRC, the League is limited to countries with their capital in Europe and Asia Minor, and maybe the Emperor has an ally outside of that area on occasion...

I've also continued my Livonian Order EU4 game. The state of Europe in 1561: I have dealt with the Gotlandic pirates! But that took a little while. The first big event shaping the Baltic was freeing Mazovia from Poland-Lithuania (Poland still exists, technically, south of Mazovia, but...

I've primarily been playing Railroad Tycoon II, specifically the Italy & The Alps map, a community map by Steve & Geoffrey Banks, the same two people who designed the Poland 1945 map I was playing earlier. It's the most difficult map I've played, yet alluringly so. The goals seem so...

Part Three: 1910 to 1915 Quintillus re-entered office to see New Galway a different place than he had left it. True, it was about the same size, but it had a school system that was receiving A grades, a properly-sized hospital, and a police and fire department. It had even paid off one of its...

1910 to 1915 has been played... screenshot formatting pending. Will replace this post with the story once it's ready!

You would have thought Gandhi would know not to ask for the Highlanders to be sent in! Oh well... who is "Guns Mostly" by the way? Another custom name for a civ? I've learned something too - "neeps" being the same vegetable as what the English call a "Swede" and what the Americans who know...

Admittedly, I don't follow the NBA much, but it's hard to believe that LeBron is the oldest player in the NBA. You know, he went straight from high school to the Cavs, made The Decision, came back, won a championship, and now he's the oldest player in the NBA? Part of it is just that it's hard...

I like the ideas snowern is bringing up. Post #16 outlines a potentially plausible (still not easy) way to add multithreading where it isn't there already. Assuming all the substantial AI (turn times) is in the DLL, then if you can determine its endpoints, and then profile it to figure out...

Ah, but in this case the editor is reading in the lowercase "tech chooser" from the PediaIcons.txt file! I should look at the C7 solution for making paths case-insensitive, as I remember that was more elegant than anything I had come up with, and fixing case-sensitivity bugs has been a...

I've played RT3 quite a bit as well; my most recent attempt to play Sid Meier's Railroads (Steam version) resulted in a crash on launch. I'd liken RTII and RT3 to like Civ III and Civ IV. RT3 has a deeper economic model, with goods slowly moving across the map on their own, simulating...

I have finally won the gold medal (and Order of Lenin) in Poland in Railroad Tycoon II. Took five tries, and I was pulling every lever to win on the last try, with only one month (out of 26 years) to spare. I did a few things differently, starting with the initial area of building, focusing on...

That is probably the best write-up of the practical use of the BIQ Compare feature I've seen yet - including my write-ups of it! I should add a "Tips & Tricks" item on using the BIQ Compare feature to spot potential unintended changes. PCX files should be findable on the Steam version; I use...

Interesting, it's actually refreshing to know that even today, the "optimal start" can vary a fair amount. The comment about cows being required was somewhat tongue in cheek - given how many games are in the list, odds are a cow-free 20K city would be there - but I didn't expect a recent one to...

Looks interesting. Cities: Skylines is a bit micro-heavy for my preferences, and I prefer city-builders that have a historical change-over-time element - Sim City 3000 and Urban Empire being examples that score well in that regard, with the latter also having a political element (as will...

Yeah, I also became more attuned to the trucks on the road beside me after I started playing ATS. Before I picked up a truck simulator, I'd never heard of Western Star. According to this article, the 389/589 account for about 20% of Peterbilt's sales. Popular, but not the majority. They note...

Much of this reads like it could be describing Kate Middleton as well - less of an age difference, and probably less influence on peoples' careers, but more of a "commoner" status. But even though her reputation is quite good, the level of press coverage of her is not nearly as high. Sure...

I've been following this intermittently since... 2016 or so? The part that's strange is why does it seem to only affect State Department employees and others in similar roles? If it were environmental factor, cases would likely be occurring among a wider group. And if it is just that group...

There are two people I remember being all over the news and magazines, and all the adults talking about, and not understanding why, from my childhood. OJ Simpson and Princess Diana. Honestly, I'm still not sure why they were both so prominent in the American press. It's just hard to fathom so...