Recent content by Churchdown Yank

I only ever heard "Mexican Spanish" before I moved to Europe. Now when I hear "real" Thpanish? It thounds thilly.

Turn 100 update for me:

I'll give it a go - cause it's raining here today and it sounds interesting. Plus I've missed these type of pickup games. Having played the latest patches it seems like Civ 5 is starting to be a little more intriguing. I had that "one more turn" feeling until 2 a.m. last night on a Napoleon...

Where is this patch? or more accurately WHEN is this patch :p I like pretty much all of these changes... and I'm not that excited playing .621 now.

Where does this patch info come from? I can't see anything on Steam or the CIV website... Edit: Never mind. Found it here on the Apolyton site

Is there a list anywhere of the additional bonuses that certain tiles get? I'm thinking primarily of the (sort of hidden) marble bonus to wonders. What about others?

What I'm trying to express with the graphs is that in Civ 4 individual decisions had more significant effects on the overall outcome which led in nearly polar opposite directions - and there was less steering or funneling into a specific path to victory. Example: Do I go for the Oracle or...

You know - I'm a married 40 something year old father of three. If I want to make decisions that don't affect anything I don't need to turn on my computer to do it.

And there's as much difference between the decisions you make to get those different victory conditions in Civ 5 as there is in the difference in terrain and resources available to your city in Civ 5. Not a lot.

Been thinking about this more today. Came up with the following picture to try and describe the difference in feel between Civ 4 and Civ 5 for me. It's not perfect - I dashed it off quickly between dinner and walking the dog - so don't tell me I missed an age or a victory condition or...

I think this might be the best thread on Civ 5 since its release. I agree that it is missing something but it is so hard to put a finger on what. On paper it's just as deep as the original Civ 4. I really like the hexes, the combat, the graphics, the UI and a lot of the changes. But...

You need to move up from Settler difficulty... ;)

I should report back because I solved my problem. Mine was hardware related. I was using a DVI to VGA adapter with a VGA (Dsub) cable to my 24" flat screen LCD and that was the bottleneck with this game causing flicker. DVI cable solved it. Civ 5 was just the first game (and I do play...

I'm getting a lot of screen flicker (entire screen, white flicker) anyone else having this? I'm running Windows Vista 64 bit Sapphire Radeon 4870X2 (drivers and CCC downloaded 20 Sept 2010) Running DX10/11 I think I've played with all the CCC settings and monitor/video settings I can...

Yeah but you guys got some serious miners who can stay underground for a long time without going nuts. Plus a pretty good football team.