Recent content by Gam

I have been able to draw other civilizations into wars easily; however, they have generally been against factions whom I am not at war with!

About a 64-bit 50ghz processor, with 25GB of RAM and a 1024MB video card, ought to allow you to play the modern era without slowdown.

I'd rather be shot (figuratively) than deal with CivIII's corruption and waste system again. Seriously, who likes taking over half the world and finding that almost every city you capture can't produce a damn thing? Warmongering just ain't worth it that way.

If so, then Iberia has ranged rather far; Actium is in southwestern Greece. Odd, too, in that Augustus founded Actium; this was considerably after the 'Rise of Rome' period.

It isn't out in Australia until August 10th. Evidently there is some trouble with kangaroos crossing the ocean..

Yeah, I don't seem to understand why people make allowances for such things. I've even heard the argument of, "well, if we can have Israel in there and some people might not like it, then why not Hitler too?" The people who have made this argument ought to be sent back to grammar school...

The Bantu weren't very historically significant. The Dutch only became a nation in the 1500s, and while strong economically, they were strong as such only as compared to the size of their nation. They were an absolute military flop. The Phoenecians were the ancestors of the Carthaginians...

I agree on the north-American cultures; I'd love to see the Iroquois confederacy, which was almost certainly the largest of the native nation. In any case, the culture of the natives endures to this day, and was very unique in its day; in many ways it much more advanced advanced than that of the...

I feel like Babylon should have made it into the CivIV in the first place, and the same with the Sumerians. I think the main thing missing with those two-- especially the latter-- was recognition, as compared to the civs that did make it in.

That's a rather abitrary statement. You didn't have a problem with Australia? Was Scandinavia ever a major power? The Vikings were the only major plays on the world field. They were raiders across a regional area. They did scourge one major country (England) for some time. Then its members...

Anti-semitism certainly is a real issue amongst many people. I've seen it quite a bit in modding communities, even. For example, I remember that somebody was making a mod to introduce an Israelite faction into Rome: Total War awhile back. Now, this mod would have been entirely historical for the...

I'm waiting for the inevitable 'no, no Israel,' etc. I agree with Israel as a civ. It was as big a player in the ancient days as Egypt was, and was certainly in the mix with Sumeria, Babylon and Persia. Plus, it's very important in the history of religion, with both Christianity and Islam...

The privateer was atrocious in Civ3. Combat strength of a trireme, if I remember correctly. The problem with privateers in Civ games is that they were indeed not powerful units in real life; they were used to prey on merchantmen, not warships! Privateers NEVER attacked warships; that simply...

It's pretty hillarious how people who don't own the game show up here asking for help because the game is not working, acting as if they're somehow being shortchanged by not being able to play it. I think it's quite clear that this guy doesn't own the game. If he owned the game and was only...

I'd imagine it's rather useless for anybody at all to argue with you, as you seem to believe that anyone who holds view contrary to your own is indisputably wrong and shortsighted.