Recent content by deadseasquirrel

quick question. i'm trying to just switch places w/ another civ in a saved game at 4000 bc. when i used the tool, it switched me and the chinese fine, but i could "see" them and had contact with them even tho we were on separate continents. is there a way to avoid this? clearing fow...

from what I've read, they help w/ the scrolling problem for some. get em here http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers dss

Infogrames also might publish Neverwinter Nights from Bioware, now that it's been pulled from Interplay. That could be a huge undertaking if it were to happen. (Makes sense as they have the D&D license.) dss

any worker thats in your capital or in the other civs capital is open for trade. dss

is there a way to build the spaceship but NOT have to click on the launch button when completed? i'm in a war with only a few turns left before france is trashed all to hell and i dont wanna miss it! only thing that worked for me was reloading a saved game and cancelling the last component...

yeah, it appears that anytime you get the msg "this source of XXXXX depleted" it *does* reappear somewhere else. so if u didn't get it in your territory, then someone else did. and that works in reverse too. anytime you get a nice surprise "new source of XXXXX discovered", that means your...

thanks, jimmy. yeah, i've still got the save from the beginning of the game. and i also started thinking about it. i guess i wouldnt necessarily havta change civs (from persia to china), just switch their places i guess... and your proggie already does that right? but then again, this isnt...

it would be cool to be able to switch civs at the beginning of the game. i'm currently playing on a standard map as persians and started with 8 civs. its mid-1900s now and i'm close to a culture vic and may even win before then with UN. but here's the thing. at the beginning, i was on a...

not a perfect fix by any means, but it works for me. open those apps *before* running civ, then alt-tab to them and back when desired. i use this for the pdf manual as well as these forums and outlook. works like a charm. just make sure everything u want is either open or accessable thru an...

nope, the units inside head back to your capital. like when u trade workers and such. so, for those cities that u take over and have a large force inside to stifle the resisters... and you *know* it's going to revert... just sell it and you get your troops back. dss

yeah, that's exactly what was happening to me. i disco'd fission like in 1844 and the AI wasn't quite there yet. i chose not to build UN right away... like a dumbass... cuz i thot once i did, the votes would begin and i didn't want to end that soon. my foot hurts from kicking myself so much...

exact thing happened to me about 900 AD. warlord, 8 civs, standard map, playing persia. french came up to border, walked on over with spearmen/swordsmen and i kindly asked them to not let the door hit them in the ass on the way out. well, they must not have liked the way i asked cuz they...

i agree, ironfang. when i first read about the persians i thot they sounded like a good, sleeper civ. one that u would ignore and it come back to bite ya. so i chose to play as them. figured it'd be better to have them on *my* side. plus, my wife likes their cats. as the persians, i only...

that last point about how *MANY* cities is very important because you'll often find that in the middle-industrial ages, you will have several cities very close together.... either because you needed to protect your borders from the expansion-crazy AI or you overtook a rival city very close to...

so whatcha do is: 1) switch the production to something that will take a while-- palace, forbidden palace, etc 2) clear the forest and have the shields drop in 3) switch back to the wonder dirty trick. but all's fair in love and war. and i do love war in civ3. dss "Over...