Recent content by Ariminio

Oh that is a great feature, thank you for the explanation.

Excuse me if this is a weak question, but what does the yellow star behind units mean? And is it a new feature? I never noticed it before.

Why do you think Civ5 will support so many cores, all I see in the Civ5 forum in the confirmed features thread is that the graphics engine supports more cores, but the rest is for 2 cores. Does support for 8 threads mean 8 cores, or what? "The new graphics engine spawns numerous small jobs...

So this week I have caught the Master of Magic virus again, what a great game. But how do you defend against the sorcery magic spell Psionic Blast? The AI rips my heroes apart with it, even when they have like 30 defense and all the megic immunity and whatnot stuff. Thats probably because on...

With unit numbers playing a big role in late game slowdown, I wonder if it is possible to limit the number of units in the game? Or even better, the number of units a country can have at any time? Is there some setting for it, or how can I set such a limit?

Sorry, I mixed the two numbers there, I meant the new i5-680, which has only two cores, but 3.6 GHz, which is the highest of all the cpus, so it should be best for Civ4, right? And probably Civ5, too.

MoM and Orion2 are awesome games, and I don't think they suffered much in the time, MoM a bit more than Orion, but it is much older, too. I still regularly play Orion2, as there just is nothing like it, love the ship customization, the turn based battles and the athmosphere. Master of Magic...

What about these new Dual Core I5 processors? I5-860 for example, 3.6 GHz for 300 Euro.

That is very informative, I am leaning towards the I7-860 now, 30% better than the Phenom in Anno 1404, which is probably closest to Civ4 among those tests!

I' not willing, do you have any more info on RTS? How long do turns take there, below 5 secs? Would it be like Alpha Centauri,Heroes of Might and Magic, Master of Orion or Colonization? Civ_king, I'm gonna get something like that, but I think I'll go with a 3GHZ Phenom for 200$ instead of...

20 seconds would be way faster than what I get on 18 civ huge modern. Are you sure it is that fast, or is that a rough figure from memory which might also be 60 secs? If 20s, what are your cpu,ram,video?

That would be great! But the 10s figure on the old Athlon makes me guess this is probably in the BC times, and not in the end when it gets slow and crowded? But in general, if the new CPU is 3 times faster than my current one, would the turn times be roughly a third of what I have now, or is...

Yes that is established, but still they are running above 3 GHz on the single cores and are new technology, so they should improve turn speed, or was that your way of gently saying "NO,I7s still suck at civ4".

The only thing that would get me interested in buying a new Civ are fast turn times, that is the only thing that annoys me in Civ4. I want to play all available maps and settings without waiting long between turns, anything above 10 or even 5 seconds is a nuisance with a top of the line...

Anyone played RoM with the new I3-I7 or Phenom II CPUs? How many seconds are your turn times in the late game, when the map is filled and everyone is churning out units? -small map -large maps -huge? For me with a core2duo on 1.86 GHz it is too long to even count or play anymore at...