Recent content by Athelstan

I'm thinking of putting steam on my laptop so as to have some games available when I'm traveling. However, I don't want steam to put CIV V on the laptop because it is too underpowered to play that game and I don't want to have it consuming disk space. Is it possible to tell steam to not put a...

I would like to have a way to clear the search box quickly. I find it quicker to use than clicking around the screen. However, the only way to clear the previous search term is to backspace over it. I would like to have some way to clear it quickly, either a button, or at least a way to select...

I'm looking for a building that was the equivalent of the drydock in CIV IV, i.e. one that gives newly-constructed ships an XP bonus. We have barracks for land units, but I couldn't find the equivalent for ships. Did I just miss something?

I had a similar event occur. In my case, the Iroquois conquered the Greeks, eliminating them. I took a former Greek city from the Iroquois and liberated it, re-activating the Greek civilization. Immediately after making peace with the Iroquois, I decided to take the Greek city for myself and...

Thanks for your reply, Kaltorak. I agree that it would be cool if puppets are as you say. My only concern then would be if there are any Wonders (National or World) that require a specific building in every city. If a puppet is just like one of my cities, does it need to have the requisite...

The manual says that puppets do not product units or wonders. I guess I'm just curious on how deeply a puppet is integrated into my civilization, as this would affect my game strategy. I really would like more information on how a puppet affects me and how I affect it.

It looks to me like the only control I have over puppets is through tile improvements. I don't want my puppet to get too large and become a happiness-sponge, or a money-pit by its going on a building spree. I'm thinking of pillaging all of the farms to keep its growth to a minimum, and...

If you're running Vista or Windows 7, the shortcuts are accessed through the Games manager. Click the Start button then look at the right half of the Start Menu. There should be a "Games" entry. Clicking that will bring up the Games Manager from which you can start whichever version of CIV...

Blue Marble was added to BAT in the latest release. I've never installed Blue Marble by itself, but I got it when I installed BAT 2.0. If you install BAT 2.0 you will get BUG and Blue Marble.

Bat 2.0 contains Blue Marble

I was able to download the BAT 2.0 mod which contains BUG 4.0 and BULL 1.0. You could go that route if you don't mind the BAT visual enhancements.

I would like opinions from other players on how best to balance the assigning of specialists and city growth. Conventional wisdom seems to say that you should grow your city to the happy cap then stagnate growth, using excess population for specialists. However, if you are running Hereditary...

You can access all of the games through the Vista Games Manager. Click the Start button. On the right side should be an entry for "Games"; click that. If there is no "Games" entry, you will have to configure the Start Menu to display it. Another way is to use the Search Box. Click the Start...

The soundtrack from the movie "Conan the Barbarian", composed by the late Basil Poledouris. Regardless of what you think of the movie itself, many consider the music to be one of the best examples of the art of scoring for a movie. It's really great if "Riders of Doom" or "Battle of the...

My copy of the US Pre-order version came with an audio CD of a lot of the music in the game, 18 tracks. Sweet........