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*sigh* I don't know if I'm not speaking English or am being too unclear, but I have said now on MULTIPLE OCCASSIONS that my comment about the AI cheating was NOT regarding my current play style. That was, and is, a general criticism of ALL of the Civ games, as instead of making the AI...

First of all, I don't believe I ever leveled any criticism about the game cheating on Noble. As far as I can recall, on Noble the game does not cheat. On Noble is when it's basically pretty even IIRC (maybe I'm wrong on that though my memory sucks). I leveled a general criticism that on the...

LOL, since most of those are cheats, I find it rather refreshing that the AI can't do them, especially since I don't do them myself. Now if only the AI didn't cheat in the other ways that I don't too... The only quibble I have is with the statement that only under "limited" circumstances does...

I never said I was one, yet what I said was still absolutely true. They had a choice, invest massive hours into making a better AI or save massive hours (and expense) by simply giving the AI advantages, and they chose the latter. And it may be true that in the real world market place, that was...

For those not "getting" why I do this, consider this. All I'm doing is the same thing the developers did, only turning it around. The developers upped the difficulty by giving the AI advantages. I'm merely turning that around by upping the difficulty by giving myself disadvantages. And doing...

I find it quite fun, as it forces you to "deal with" things that you ordinarily wouldn't deal with, such as the one game where all of my cities were very unhappy because of no emancipation. Ordinarily if that scenario occurred, a rational player would of course seek out Democracy as quick as...

I get that it can't be played on the harder difficulties this way. I've said as much now several times. What I didn't understand was it could go from way too easy to way to hard in just ONE difficulty jump. I'm not expecting to be able to play it this way on the harder difficulties, and...

Then I must have been very unlucky SIX STRAIGHT TIMES. Now granted, that's possible. Anyone could flip a coin and have it come up heads six straight times and the coin still be fine. But when I see it six straight times with a new coin (these are the first six times I've tried this play...

I don't know how to take a screenshot in game, but as an example of what I'm talking about, in this game I've had HORRIBLE luck with the cards and Democracy just hasn't come up. And I've got cities with 6 and 7 unhappiness due to "We demand Emancipation." Which is fine, that's what's SUPPOSED...

GOG already does the "hard part" for all of it's old games, it's just a matter of downloading, installing, and playing most of the time. Even old DOS games are just point and click. They do all the behind the scenes work needed to get older games to run on new OS's, and then make it a simple...

No, it would not run for eternity just fine if something happened to that computer and you had to, say, reinstall Windows. Or the hard drive developed a bad sector that affected Steam. Or if you just decided to upgrade it with a new motherboard and hard drive resulting in Steam needing to be...

Yeah, the fast obsolescence is why I also prefer Marathon. I've never played to try to get a high score before, in fact I don't even know how to "max out" scoring like you can max out the other efficiencies, but I'm sure there's a way to do that too. Thanks for the insight. If you're ever...

What is your preferred setup? Or at least preferred speed? Oh, and what does CFC stand for? (Sorry, not sure I heard that before) EDIT: Never mind about the CFC question, I saw the link in your signature and read what it was. Interesting stuff.

Have you ever played a game on marathon, huge map, continents, low sea level, 6 total Civs (yours plus 5), standard game rules, Noble difficulty, and random selection of Civs, leaders, and techs?

Do they ever get warriors spawned? I was always scared to risk an early settler (especially) or worker for fear of that happening.

I always think about that when I have Nationalism. But when the techs you research come up randomly you don't have any control over when that will be.

Okay, this is now five in a row. Sorry, but if you were to come across a new coin and began flipping it and it came up heads four, five, six, etc. times in a row you'd start to wonder if maybe the coin was different somehow. Maybe the resource supply is the same but I have every reason to...

No, you don't need to go on. You could go on until the end of time and it won't change my mind about a new, intrusive, form of DRM. And while you may not need to be online to play, you do need to be online to download and install it. And my ISP bill is over $100 a month (that's phone...

My first experience was Civ II. Played, loved it. Lost many nights to the "just one more turn" syndrome, but then grew tired of some of the annoyances. (number 1 being the AI building cities right in the middle of "my" area, I mean literally in the middle of my cities and my cities alone...

Thank you, that's basically what I was asking. I guess the four games I've played so far have been a four game run of bad luck with the cards and resources. I was concerned because the jump from Settler to Warlord wasn't even noticeable to me, whereas I've had four really bad games in a row...