Recent content by Braindrop

One of the best tactics I've found when an opposing civ starts to pull away from me is to dump a dozen or so mobile units into his civ with the express job of pillaging everything they can before they die. This doesn't work very well once the civ is railroaded, but prior to that you can severely...

My wife has stuck her head into my office with a puzzled look on her face when she hears a shout of "YOU *****! I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU 500 YEARS AGO" :) I'm a great ally until you attack me once :) Brain

So I'd managed to stage a city perfectly to be almost done with Battlefield Medicine when I finished Electronics and had the Hoover Damn available. My plan was to switch production and get an edge on my rival the Romans. I got Electricity 2 turns ago. I try to switch to Hoover Dam, and it...

Do *not* open a 2nd war front just because you find an isolated city. Do *not* open a 2nd war front just because you find an isolated city. Do *not* open a 2nd war front just because you find an isolated city. That is all. Brain, dead at warlord level due to greed yet again

If the combat works like I've read it does, I'll simply start with a warrior at 1.1.1 and base everything on that, changing attack/defense numbers until they feel right. braindrop

I've started sketching out the notes of how to change unit values so that my tanks can't be stopped by fortified hoplites :P I think getting rid of firepower was an incredibly bad decision -- to fix it, I'm going to have to rescale attack & defense on every unit in the game. Brain

Even with animations off, the graphics code seems to be a performance hog. I've got a 1.2 ghz Tbird, 64 meg vid card, half gig of RAM and the screen scroll is jerky. The gameplay seems pretty decent (other than the aforementioned corruption problems) though. Braindrop