Recent content by Banach

Conquest is always quicker than landing. I just prefer the latter.

Wow, a chieftain game. I'll try to play for landing, but I have to remind myself what it's like on the easier levels - the computer basically puts up no fight whatsoever and is somewhat useless as a trade partner because of there slow growth.

Wow, I never thought about Darwin's to get techs. Also, should have gone for Apollo once I realized no one was anywhere nearby. Maybe next GOTM I will perform better. (Well, finish, for that matter, without causing a crash).

I totally get your point. There are many games that are so incredibly valuable for Nostalgia reasons. So many old computer or Nintendo games that remind me of certain parts of my childhood. I'm thinking of old classics like Prince of Persia, Wasteland, and Legend of the Red Dragon (if anyone...

My alternating ship chain - usually I play on deity, so 15 cities for a large map, 10 for normal or small. It can be dramatically more on lower difficulty levels, it depends on what I feel like doing. I'm a fan of fewer cities than more (although I know that's not the optimal strategy). I...

Simplistic question here. With all of the work of Sampson and everyone else about the underground mathematics of CIV II, and the ability to mimic the graphics, and the massive programming skills I'm sure exist out there, why is the source code necessary? Why can't people just gather together...

Tried the other autosave, got a crash a turn earlier. I might try the other save, but I don't know if I have the patience to play through those turns again and see if it helps. I might just be out for this GOTM.

CIV II is old, and I mean like, really old. I mean like, February 1996 old. That means it came into the game shortly after Win 95, so I doubt it does anything with the registry. IIRC, it's actually win 3.1 compatible, and it recognizes vista as an NT-type OS. Anyways, I concur, just delete...

No, I haven't tried the autosav2 yet, I'll do that next. If that doesn't work we'll see about an earlier save. Lucky for me I save every ten turns or so. Thanks for checking it Magic.

Magic, File sent - thanks for checking it out for me.

I realize that his is an old thread, but I have the same wave out error problem on classic civ. It happens out of the blue every now and then, and then it happens every time I move a unit. If I save, exit, and reload, it goes away. Fortunately, it only happens maybe once every few hours I...

I pursue a slightly different strategy. In my experience, early game trading is best done with the AI, which is almost always somewhere nearby. If the trade is early enough, you can get one turn advances. Trade of course changes with navigation and invention, becoming less profitable. In the...

Technical issue - anyone else having a problem with CIV crashing at the end of turn on October 2061? I re-started civ several times but it keeps crashing. Suggestions?

So I want to play this game but I'm pondering the path. I mean, trade is a strength of mine, but setting up a trade empire is of little value when every tech is already discovered and we need to conquer the world. I seem to recall a GOTM where they gave everyone every tech to start with and...

I landed in 1661 AD. I made a lot of mistakes, but I'm learning and getting better. It was a little boring at the end - launching a ship that takes 30 years is boring. I like the 6 year ones better. I have to figure out the middle part of the game a bit better and get a cleaner build and...