Recent content by Diadem82

I entirely agree with the OP. Rivers are extremely powerful and important. Not only do they give free income, they also offer some buildings you can't otherwise build. And huge defense bonusses. I had this awesome game where I had a city just behind a chokepoint with 2 rivers crossing the...

I'm now allied with 15 out of 16 city states. The last one was an ally but got conquered, so time to liberate him. It's absolutely awesome. There's just no stopping me. But it looks like my save got corrupted. Man, this game is unplayable. It used to crash every 20 minutes (with about 10...

I do not agree with every suggestion on this list. But I agree with many of them. Some of the items on the list are of the order of 'Civ5 is different than civ4! Change it back'. Nah, it's a different game. But I agree with a great many points on the list. The game is way too sloppy. Many...

I play 2D almost exclusively. I just want an option to disable 3d altogether. That would be nice.

That's still a bad design though. You can keep playing after every other victory, why not time victory? And why grey the button out? Just to taunt people that they forgot to select an option in advanced settings?

I agree with the general sentiment. But your calculations are a bit off here and there. First off, there is a policy for increasing the effectiveness of spending gold on city states. With this you can reduce the actual cost of buying alliances below your 6.25 gpt. On the other hand however...

Yeah I got a nasty surprise as well when I discovered they do not work with wonders. They are kind of useless imho. 20% faster building building, while being quite expensive. You need to build a lot of buildings for it to be worth it.

In my current game as Greece I am allied with every single city state. A few were captured by AIs but I managed to liberate them all except one (but my armies are on route as we speak). 15 allies is not to be trifled with. They really help a lot. They provide very nice military assistence...

So the basic permutations of terrain are 2/0/0 for grassland, 1/1/0 for plains and forest and 0/2/0 for hills. Mines always give only one hammer. But lumbermills give 2 hammers late-game and farms give 2 food early game next to river and late-game otherwise. In other words mines are now...

I spent most of my time on the strategic view. I do not believe my video card is the bottleneck. It can't be too hard to generate 90s graphics on 1024x768 :P

Not sure if this is a bug or just a strange feature. But the culture of my cities is merrily expanding outside the workable 3-tile radius. Even for cities that have not filled their 3-tile radius yet. I can provide a save if required. But if it's not a bug there's no need :)

Well my issue (or at least the purpose of this thread) is not really those crashes. Of course is someone knows a solution I'm all ears, but I've kind of resigned myself to living with them 'till it gets patched. I just want civ to use both my cores and all my memory.

Ok. Two savegames, one (titled '7') just before declaring war. The second after taking the city and ending my turn. Just hit 'end turn' on the last save and wait and see the culture disappear.

I have a pretty old computer. An AMD 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 GHz with 2 GB ram and a ATI Radeon HD 2600 pro. So only just above the minimum specs. When I go to my task manager though, it turns out the game is only using 50% CPU, and only about 1GB of memory. That seems a huge waste. My computer is not...

The thing about wonders is that they do not cost maintenance. Sure they are very expensive on the hammers, but they give nice bonusses, GP points, and do not cost you anything. The latter is a big boon. You can build units, but that costs money. You can build buildings, but that costs money...