Recent content by bogh

Ehm. Not quite. Unified Italy basically grew out of conquests by Sardinia and land grants from France (in return for military and diplomatic assistance). They did not simply rebel and kick off the foreigners. Certainly, a certain degree of insurgency was present and aided the unification, but...

The Internet should definitely be modded - vastly increasing trade links, granting almost total information about other civs or something along those lines.

Yeah, but this is really my main complaint: In real life control and dominant culture has not been correlated in the majority of history. It is a very modern ideal, that the game applies to all ages - and even that ideal had to be fought for using military force. I don't mind seeing provinces...

Part of the attraction of Civ is the historical flavour. A game can be fine without historical emphasis - chess is great and very abstract. Civ is not such a game. Concepts are abstracted out of necessity, but clearly historicism is enjoyable. Outright nonsense detracts immensely from the...

The majority of people complaining about the black terrain / cheshire cat problem have Radeon Mobile 7500s - that have T&L and rudimentary pixel shading. The card is even listed as supported for the game. So tell me why people should "bite the bullet" if they already have T&L and a card that is...

Two points: That the game does not run very well is a bit of an understatement. The graphics are decidedly not working. We are not talking rare glitches or artifacts here, we are talking massive graphical errors that make the game next to unplayable. Noone expected a high speed, excellent...

Ehm. No. The 7500 will not work if you turn off your ARP acceleration. It will get rid of the floating eyeballs and the misplaced fog of war, but it will also discolour the terrain in very bright shades. At present the 7500 does not work. End of story. It was specifically listed as being able to...