Recent content by DemonDeLuxe

If you look at the topic title of this thread, you will notice it reads "Maybe the problem isn't Civ4 it's Civ in general" I fail to see why someone who actually IS a "civ fanatic" must glorify each and every move the developers do and is not allowed to criticise a certain edition? Seeing...

@Xavier Von Erck Excuse me, but if you hate whining that much, what on earth forces you to whine about people who feel disappointed and say so? To make this question more understandable to you, I'll re-phrase in your own words: If you see a thread where people write about what they...

I have a 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM machine here and yet the game sometimes takes as long as 7-8 minutes to load. Yes, I know of the "shift key trick", but I beg your pardon: What exactly is the USE of a cache that actually SLOWS DOWN loading??? Isn't a cache supposed to SPEED UP things?

As for the lack of strategy (what you mean is basically "tactics"), some games came up with the concept of support from the actual tile a unit is on or (with the advent of modern infrastructure) uninterrupted support from the home base. I always felt that the lack of something like that made...

While I agree with your post in general and in toto, this last sentence I cannot leave that way. The time when computer games have been made primarily for kids and youths has long gone; the computer game industry today appeals more and more to adults, and for a reason: Adults are - on average -...

@Huszar Signed.

carn, I guess you mix up two things that sometimes are, but aren't necessarily connected: 1.) gameplay rules and AI handling 2.) simple "fun" in playing the game While certainly a sound set of rules is the base to start off with, it is not alone what makes a computer game addictive (sure, you...

Just the opposite. If you try to appeal to RTS fans, people who like fast-paced multiplayer games AND people who love epic builder games, you will end up satisfying none of them, because for every branch, there are specialised games better covering the market share. For long times, CIV was...

I guess you really hit the core of the problem here. I had that vague feeling since when I saw the first screenshotsfrom those 3D graphics. Sure, one could build a strategy game that actually makes USE of true 3D, but somehow I had the feeling this was simply a sign that the developers...

Now then, Sorceress, let me tell you: I am, in fact, a programmer. While I haven't, until now, done anything with Python and rarely ever touched XML, I have no doubts that I could handle these like a couple of other languages I had to learn in the past. So, I COULD edit those files. Sure. But...

Not quite as big a flaw, but a bit annoying nonetheless: Could someone please fix that ridiculous VIOLET uniform of Bismarck? It's not called "prussian blue" for nothing, you know (yeah, sorry, I know it's a detail compared to mixing up two leaders, but I have always been interested in...

Zeeter, I guess most educated people would agree that communism at it's core is a great idea that, sadly, does seem to ignore the very nature of humans and is thus doomed to failure. It's an ideal ideology for ideal humans - which don't exist. Capitalism seems to work because it doesn't...

I couldn't agree more. I really love playing CIV "the Sim City way": Build an empire, give cities fancy names, let a guard march up in front of the capital, have a "valley of slaves" in which I store conquered workers... you name it. I love certain city patterns and armies built in divisions and...

I cannot wait to see the new, improved problems this seems to hint to... ;)

@White Elk I cordially agree with every aspect of that previous post of yours. However, CIV always had a tendency to preach what U.S.-centered mainstream deemed to be the best way of life. It's not that I was always against it (after all, we Germans have more in common with the U.S. than...