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I'm a dedicated civver who wasted many thousands of hours on the first four iterations of the game. Loved them all. When Civ5 came out I actually bought a new computer in order to play the game. I quickly soured on it. Bad mechanics. Too easy to win. Massive penalties against the player for no...

One of the better political questionnaires to come along in a long time. I was rather surprised to find that I am closer to Gary Johnson than Ron Paul, but when I see the list of issues I suppose it is true. You can see the issues list at the link. I do not agree with Romney or Obama on any of...

I really don't understand why I care whether Tweedledum or Tweedledee wins. Will Romney be even worse than Obama on Iran? Will he be marginally better on reining in the regulators? The right answer to these questions is obviously "who could possibly care"? Unfortunately I am hopelessly to...

This week is the fortieth anniversary of the Club of Rome's garbage tract entitled "The Limits to Growth". They said that world would be enveloped in a downward spiral which would result in mass hunger and mass death. They said it would happen somewhere in the late 1970s. On the contrary, a...

Has anyone else noticed that memory usage grows over time? I started a new game and the software was using 2.6 GB of memory. I re-started civ and did the same thing. Only 850 MB, one third as much. In a similar vein, the inter-turn lag seems to grow the longer you stay in the game. I noticed...

Overview One of the most enjoyable things about Rhye’s and Fall is that the approach to each civ is very different. The normal game is kinda repetitive. Worker first. Find the copper and the horses. If you don’t have either, go for Iron. You know the map-generator will give you at least one...

Y'know. It is getting seriously boring around here. Most of the good players seem to have disappeared. Is it time to move on to Civ4? :eek: :cry: