Recent content by Alcatraz

This may have been around in earlier versions but the situation never arose. It appears that AI requests for a little chat are all made at once and then queued up to be resolved which can create a problem if AI 1 asks you to declare war on AI 2 the same turn that AI 2 is coming to chat with...

Here's my fix: Step 1 - In the ancient era, cities should be born with paganism as their religion. Once a civ has acquired a "modern" religion, settlers are built with a religion chosen at random from the religions supported in their home city, including paganism. The random choice should...

The first thing I do when I start or load a game is turn the grids on, turn the resource dispaly on and then spend 45 minutes wrestling with the stupid overly sensitive impossible to control precisely controls to get max zoom out (or as close as I can manage before giving up). Is there ANY...

Your poll questions are badly worded. No, religions are not fine as they are. No, Firaxis shouldn't have made them more different. Firaxis first obligation is to make a profit and to this end the danger of alienating large sections of the market by introducing significant differences in...

Guderian or Rommel perhaps... The other obvious replacements for WWII Germany would run into the same problems as Hitler. However, Guderian and Rommel are familiar enough names to the rest of the world and made significant theoretical contributions to warfare.

Forgive him... he has no choice but to resort to tactics like these.

Huge maps, marathon speed, monarch level... generaly 8-9 hours play time per game, and often some of that is idle time while I cook, shower, or keep my girlfriend happy. I don't micromanage much and usualy beat the game at monarch. I'm not interested in moving up to a higher level because I...

I assume you mean William Howard Taft? The only president to go on to serve on the Supreme Court, and as Chief Justice no less. My facetious nomination of him aside, he would make a poor leader for Civ because he was strongly opposed to expanding the power of the presidency. Teddy Roosevelt...

I vote for Taft and Fillmore.

The difference is that the AI doesn't know or react to the negative modifiers, thus has no incentive to improve its diplomatic standing with the players.

Me me me me me me!

There's nothing wrong with a reverse relation slider so long as there is an appropriate cost for acting inconsistent with it. Everyone knows that Montezuma can't be trusted. He may say he's pleased with me, but I'm still attacking him the moment (the VERY moment) I think I can beat him to...

Of course if Napoleon just declares war on you in that position, you've got problems.

My warrior started stacked with Ghandi's stack of units once.

It wasn't my topic :) I understand the problems with giving a fixed date for the patch, and that's not what I suggested. I just think it would be nice for someone from Firaxis to drop by the boards and say "Here's why it isn't out yet, here's what we're working to fix, sorry it took longer...