Recent content by aaronflavor

I'm not the same caliber player as some of the others, but I can say I win Noble every time. The thing about Noble is that you're on parity with the AI, and the AI is terrible. Prince the AI gets an edge on you, which is scary, but it's very small, so you can still trounch them. All you...

I appreciate all of the advice on broader strategy, but I was actually mainly interested in the specific automation problem. It's true, there's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm only on Prince, which is relatively easy; I'm just trying to play casually to get a feel for BtS. In Civ4...

I've played a good amount of Civ4, and a lesser amount of Warlords, and even less Beyond the Sword. The expansions turned me off enough that I mostly just kept playing the original Civ4, but I'm trying to give BtS another good shot. It's obvious that citizen automation works differently than...

By the way, if it turns out little people photoshopped little gold coins into all of my tiles on the screenshot I uploaded, there's just no way I'll be able to cope with that.

Holy crap, you're right... !!!! there's totally little gold coins on those tiles. I must be seriously blitzed out... I guess I was thinking they were there for some other reason, and I had just deforested all of that forest for nothing. In fairness, I haven't played a single player Civ4...

Am I just smoking massive piles of crack, or did river tile commerce cease to exist at some point? Check out the attached city. At one point or another, any tile next to a river got a +1 commerce, unless it had a forest or something on it. But I checked the online manual, and searched the...

Thanks for this fix! But about the other dozen hotseat bugs, which are just as serious as this one? I get the feeling that noone at Firaxis has actually played a complete hotseat game; an observant pair of programmers could completely clean it up after taking notes from just a single game...

Sleep mode will have no negative long-term effect on your laptop or PC, unless you're doing something else unusual at the same time, or something is broken otherwise.

Assuming this is an ATX power supply, you should get the ATX spec. There are some rules about the maximum and minimum power you can draw from various rails. Most of the people using a PSU for a general power supply put resistors on the rails to supply a minimum load. You should also be...

Parallelization is important for simulating pretty much any hard problem. If you want to do simulation, you need to be familiar with the basic techniques. Most universities offer a class on it, but often only at the graduate level. Look around for a similar one in engineering, computer...

FTP is not a secure protocol. It should not be used for anything where security is needed. FTP is of the last of a set of old insecure protocols that are dying (telnet) or are already dead (rlogin/rsh, rcp). My first recommendation would be SCP, since its secure and fairly popular. There...

In my experience with personal computers, they seem to have gotten slower, not faster. In early PCs, everything was practically instantaneous--because everything else would have been too slow. Whats happening partly is faster computers are allowing programmers to use more complex (referring...

So, do they exist? Are there many of them? Do they use these forums? There's nothing so irresistable as a cute girl who's intelligent enough to get a kick out of strategy games... :goodjob:

I think its impossible with any degree of confidence to be able to set up an intercept network. Having said that, I have had good success in past games sinking some or all of the incoming ships, especially if there is advance notice. I generally keep my homeland sparsely guarded, and keeping...

I have the same problem! I really hate this. I was hoping this bug was fixed in the latest patch, but it was not. There's also some other annoying hotseat bugs I've noticed, but I can't think of any offhand. For me, the first player does not get to see most of the text messages (but the...