Recent content by andy6474

I played a few games of civII, but found it had no 'soul' like civ1. (Not well balanced mostly I think...) Also cant stand the stupid isometric view.

Im an Aussie, but I reckon youve spent too long in Tassie mate if you cant find a dodgy copy to download from the net...

I think that the palace is directly connected with your population, and you get new bits when you reach milestone populations. (Hmm. Have to try and find some time to test this!) I know when I played 'population challenge' vs my flatmate on the earth map we would usually max out the palace (or...

Strangely enough, it does actually run (or rather crawl) if I run it with windows (98) active from a dos window, but if I reboot in dos mode I get the dreaded "Division by zero" runtime error when the splash screen comes up. This may be some kind of driver or dos version thing, which means...

There seem to be quite a few bugs in winCiv, but I dont know of any that make the game more fun. Mostly things that cause sudden program crashes or wierd behaviour. :-( If you can get it to run on your machine, you would be better off using the original DOS version (better graphics (yes!) and...

I was still a despotism! Lol City had no supported units yet, and was still size 1 (10,000). I can only assume that the game got confused in its list of cities. Maybe I had too many and its index wrapped around, or maybe it got my city confused with the real Bergen. In the dos version of civ Ive...

Playing a game on Prince level using the Earth map just now, year 660 bc, had about 40 cities, and next thing I know one of my cities goes into disorder. Nothing unusual about that right? This city was size 1. Hadnt even built its defence militia yet. Wierd. I think the computer must have...

Will it work on the maps for Civ for Windows? - or did they change the map file format? Id love a good map editor as I find the continents the game generates to be a bit too stringy for my liking. I usually play on Earth for this reason, but its damn boring knowing where everything is.

Heheh I remember spending the summer of 1994/5 playing on my girlfriend at the times laptop. It was black and white only (lol. Spent half the time clicking units to see if they were mine or not!) and had the Japanese version of dos. Not knowing Japanese Id spend quit awhile just trying to load...

Who here would agree that CivI is the greatest computer game of all time? Id have to say that any list of the best would include it... I think my list would read as follows: 1. Civilization (PC (Dos)) 2. Elite (BBC Micro version) 3. Ultracorps (Internet Gaming Zone) (UC No longer exists) 4...

My former flatmate and I would often compete using the same map (ie saved game@4kbc)-usually on Earth map, to see who could get the highest population by the end of the game, or a set date. This was always great fun, but usually ruined by the population bug (which corrupts the map in the DOS...

Well, Ive had no luck fixing the 'division by zero' errors I was getting, but it does run if I run it in a dos window (fullscreen) rather than rebooting in DOS! Unfortunatley this is to slow to be playable. (I could probably read the entire works of Shakespeare in the time it takes to move one...

What are some of the stranger civ games you folk have played? (Ie: ones where you were trying to do something different, instead of the usual conquer the world stuff) In my case I once took a game past 5000AD. I was playing on the Earth map and I had during my 9000 year game, conquered and...

Firstly, the graphics in civ1 (the map anyway). I cannot stand the evil isometric bogus 3d viewpoint on the map that civII offers. It doesnt look like a map, or feel like one. The map (and thus 99% of the gameplay) in civII feels very plastic and after looking at it 5 minutes I get tired of it...

I think squares are the better way to go in terms of playability, BUT why can't the squares be displayed (or have the option to be displayed) the proper way (ie: civ1) instead of this isometric 3d imitation that looks terrible, makes movement a nuisance and worst of all, and in my view a capital...