Recent content by davecheeney

Make sure you have the latest Direct X installed first (try the Microsoft site here or just Google "Direct X downloads") http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/aboutGFW/pages/directx.aspx Install and reboot, then try it. A couple other posts on this page describe similar problems so you're...

I've had this happen a few times - I just send the ship back to Europe, then back to the new world and they arrive at the right location. Quicker than sailing them along the coast line for 10 turns. Could be a random "storms at sea" thing??

I like these ideas because they can be used to reflect the true history of the period (at least for the British-USA experience. I'm not sure how this plays out in terms of the Spanish or Portuguese experience in S. America). Starting with #4 - "Aggressive Foreigners" The French and Indian War...

Request that you turn off the nagging reminder: "Hello davecheeney, it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks. Why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution, or participate in a discussion in any one of our forums?" I'm here to read and...

Why not drop the idea of hexes and go to the concept of land provinces and sea zones? 1. You can assign a general type of terrain and one city to a province. It represents a geographic area that supports one city and it's economic hinterland; 2. It "fixes" the time scale problem of moving...

A couple suggestions that I'd like to see implemented in a patch include: 1) WAKE UP button or command - it's tedious to go into a large stack of fortified units and have to right-click and wake each and every one. If we could get a "wake up" command for a whole stack or even implement it...