Recent content by alwinter

I don't.... I have a dell inspiron 5000e laptop PIII 750 -- 128mRAM standard grahics/sound cards... any help in getting rid of the scrolling problem would be great

OK... so i went ahead an installed the patch, the second version... and now i have a problem i DID NOT have before i installed the patch. The dreaded scrolling problem. how the hell do i correct this? I have only reloaded a game i started and played without the patch... does this have an...

Mark v... this a frequent problem from what i've seen on the boards... the thing is that somewhere out there is a greek ship carrying a greek settler... now this brings up my most important question for the patch... before if you destroyed this greek settler in the ship the game would...

Here is a game play related problem i have been annoyed by: When i build the UN i get messages every couple of turns to hold Secretary general elections. its a bit annoying. so if you hold the election, if you win the game ends. if you lose, the game ends. Its sorta like a message coming up...

I have had this happen with a game that i have been playing for about two weeks, so i don't want to hear you people complaining about losing 3 hours of time. the only way to solve it, i would say, would be to actually pay attention to the game. if you notice a civ has no cities, but has not...

you can also right on the capital city... this will give you a menu where you can "conduct espiangae". click on this and it ill whow you a list of cutures you have contacted and then tell you how much it costs to put an embassy in each....

After losing handily through several attempts with multple civs at regent level, I switched down to the Babylonians on Warlord in a huge battle royale game. This is a good civ. the scientific experience is great because you get those extra advances at the dawn of a new era. trading them for...

I'm playing a huge game. There are still 15 civs (an alliance I ha with the French didn't go too well for the Romans!) but wat is troubling is that each interval between turns takes like 4-6 minutes. Can anyone suggest how to pick the spped up? options i can turn off? I have a pretty...

I just got Civ III friday and I have a few comments... First, my experience with civ I and civ II is almost completely irrelevant. This is a hwole new game. Second, the game is ahelluvalot harder... I used to routinely beat Civ II at diety level, now I have started trying at regent...

Nevermind, I figured it out. The color bar above each flag dictates font color...

Hi, I have recently figured out that you can change the flags for your cities and I think this makes scenario creation and gameplay much better. It really just looks better. Anyway, the problem I am having now is how to change the font color on the names of the cities on the main game map. I can...