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I noticed the steam page only shows the windows icon next to the pre-releases. No announcement of support for OSX or Linux? That's sorta a step back from Civilization 5, which had great multi-platform support. :( I say this as someone who uses Ubuntu as my main operating system. I can dual...

I know a few users reported this and I've seen it happen twice myself. It seems that some of the time, after Alt-Tabbing out and back into the game, the camera lags and visibly fights the user in trying to adjust the few. In my experience, after about 10 seconds, the lag goes away and the camera...

Preface: After playing a game this weekend, with 20+ civs, I started getting annoyed at the number of diplomatic requests I get from the AI. Mostly open borders and embassy requests, usually from some newly spawned rebel faction or tiny player. Sure, I could tell them to cease bothering me, but...

One of the areas the AI tends to be weakest is espionage. Espionage is the sort of gameplay mechanic a decentralized AI is poorest at. Espionage requires large amounts of pre-planning, a large amount of coordination between units and cities, and long timespans. The Civilization AI is largely...

I hope I am not alone in thinking that corporations (and guilds) are the most unbalanced part of RAND? When I say "unbalanced", I mean they tend to have outsized effects on cities, have strange requirements, and don't contribute much to the mod. I think Realistic Corporation spread is...

Starting a discussion thread since the topic has been fairly heavily discussed in the bug threads, which is not really the appropriate place for it. Basically government types and fixed borders don't mix. I think we could spend the next month debating which governments can and can't have...

I might go. It's 6 hours away from me, if I drive. Seems silly to pass up the opportunity. I'm curious if anyone else here is close enough to consider it? Details: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=532438

There has been a lot of discussion hinting at merging the "Expanded Castles" option into the base game. This would remove the option and make the buildings always available for all games. There are several castle expansions which will be removed in this merge. I think most obvious, the...

I know one of the biggest issues with Multiplayer in RAND is the inevitable OOS error that crops up. Restarting and resuming is a huge PITA. What is an OOS?: Civilization 4 uses an interesting and rather rare multiplayer mechanism. In order to save bandwidth, all the machines run civilization...

One of the other big economy topics, besides Trade Routes, is inflation. In normal BTS (and RAND) is simply increases with game turns. It saps your gold income. The advanced economy option adds some modifiers that influence the inflation rate, but the effect is to overall decrease the size of...

Seems like a basic concept for a turn based strategy game. Occasionally the game will jump me to a unit and I will accidently click-drag and it will move to a plot I didn't intend. Sometimes I want to see what exactly the effects of a civic option is without saving and reloading [there is no...

This thread is meant mainly for 45* and myself, and anyone else familiar with the SDK and Visual Studio. So what I have discovered coming back to RAND 2 is that I can't do any real time debugging with the Debug DLL. When the debug DLL is built, it doesn't include many optimizations made in the...

I've been playing on an archipelago map and been a bit frustrated with naval battles. Even with a large navy, I can not guard every coastal or ocean tile. Enemy ships can just glide through the gap, drop off some units, and leave again, despite passing multiple powerful ships I own. I am...

From the horse's mouth: http://blog.2k.com/index.php/home/single/2k-announces-online-service-changes-for-legacy-titles I imagine changing the game to use steamworks from Gamespy will require at least a new EXE for the game...which means a patch. So, the obvious question is when are we going to...

I dunno about anyone else, but when I play a map with 25 other civs, I get really tired of 5 diplomatic windows popping up each turn. It would be one thing if the AI's were trying to trade me techs or sell me stuff. But rarely are they. Most of the time, they want me to declare war on another...

...and got my butt kicked. Prince Difficulty, fairly standard settings. I played as Rome. I got stick in the northern half of a continent, with a mixture of a few good tiles, deserts and tundra. I had no access to copper or iron. I did very well in the first half of the game. I expanded...

Hi guys, popping in to ask a question and lend a hand. I noticed the download page for AND still points to the now very old 1.75 installer. I updated the link to point to the nightly build installer - but if it should be pointing to something else, let me know. I am not sure what you guys want...

Hey guys, love the progress I see here. I grabbed Koshling's source from your SVN, and did a quick diff. Wow, lots has changed/improved since my abscence. As tempted as I am to simply do a full copy->paste of Koshling's many many improvements, I want to know, is there anything I should avoid...

Been gone for a while, and still super busy writing a modding framework for Minecraft (I'll share if any MC fans are interested, otherwise I won't bore you all), but on the plus side, I can look back and go "WTF was I doing, this was a dumb implementation". What needs fixing, what needs...

I've read several continued complaints about the new cavalry changes. Essentially, cavalry has been the runt of RoM since the nerfing in RoM 2.6. (If anyone recalls RoM 2.5, cavalry were extremely powerful, and could be expected to lay waste to modern defenses and were the medieval era blitz)...