Recent content by conuil

Actually its happening on the normal game as well. I haven't bought the NFP and its happened to me.

I've also noticed this has been happening recently (since December 20th or thereabouts). It fails late in the game around turn 350. For me its random, if I reload the game it will work for a few more turns then fail again. Very frustrating. Given that I cannot now finish a game I would say that...

I am looking at buying a new laptop and I've seen a sweet deal on an acer travelmate. My only query is on the graphics card which is listed as: ATI Radeon X1250 896MB Hyper Memory The laptop has 2gb of ram and AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 1.90GHz. Do you think the graphics card be enough for...

Im aware of that aspect, still it does seem different from previous games. Was there a change to culture in Warlords or BTS?

Up till last week I was playing the old vanilla civ4. Now i got the expansion pack (warlords & beyond the sword) and I am playing my first game in Beyond the sword. I get the impression that the culture aspect of the game has changed. I recently attacked the Egyptians, I took one city (one...

I think its a pretty smart setting though. As we've seen during the Gulf War it was very hard for the US to attack Northern Iraq without a land route. Actually, on a related topic can you airlift units to airfields in PTW?

Well its no Sim-City that's for sure ;). Wealth is a pretty useless setting in Civ3 it generates very little money. I'd always build military units instead of setting it to produce wealth. Even if you never use them the more you have the less likely the other civs are to attack you. (You can...

I agree, going to war (or getting them into a war) is the best way to hold up production. I can't confirm this but it seems the civ mobilizes when it goes to war which prevents it from building any new parts until it comes out of mobilization. Also one space ship part requires Uranium so if...

I agree. I do the same thing, particularly if the city is only going to be rife with corruption anyway. However I do think they could code it better. AI's will pay buckets of money for a city on another continent that's of very little use to them. I've even sold cities to a civ that was at...

I find industrious to be the best like most people. Then religious, the cheap temple/cathedrals and the 1 turn anarchy are great throughout the game. Militaristic would be next as promotions and cheap barracks can give you the edge in war time. I used to rate Scientific highly but I'm not so...

I leave flips on but I do think it could be tuned better. Peacetime flips are fine, a city over time becomes more integrated into the culture of your neighbour and eventually leaves (through a referendum or revolt). Much like Hong Kong going back to the Chinese or East and West Germany...

My tactic is always to leave one/two defensive units in the city and if its retaken/flips its no great loss. You should be able to win it back again pretty easily. After its been taken once a city will have lost alot (if not all) of its improvements and so won't be worth as much to your...

I think you have to decide on the Palace jump early on. If so you don't do much with your capital. No wonders or big building projects so abandoning it won't be such a huge problem. It sounds like in your game that it wouldn't really be beneficial.

Not sure if this makes sense, maybe someone can confirm or deny it. I always have tech at 70% maximum (maybe 80% the odd time). I think if I set it higher I'm not gaining full benefit from my marketplaces or banks. Also at this setting I tend to build up a big cash reserve (useful for when I...

I just read the article on AI Attitudes recently. Can't remember where it is now. Apparently if you are trespassing the AI's attitude deteriorates, but only temporarily. As soon as you leave again the attitude penalties are cleared. I'd say ignore the pesky AI's complaining, lets face it...