Recent content by Gen

Well, that's problem with State Property rather than with workshops. I think workshop is an ok improvement as is but agree that State Property is clearly overpowered and in most situations a no-brainer. Good point about snowy cities, but these cities are rarely worth trouble to make them grow...

It hasn't really, workshops can work both ways (with or without State Property). It's just that they do have nice synergy bonus which should be mentioned when discussing usefulness of this improvement.

Also, remember that they work beautifully with State Property civic. They are allright I think. They work best in late game (State Property + Guilds + Chemistry), sure, but they are designed just for that; immediate production boost can be very valuable for cities on flatlands, workshops can...

Nice idea and certainly worth trying in mods. I assume both overall strength increase for all units and continuous small tech promotions apply (if only the second one was in effect it would be in fact easier to devastate brand new machinegunners with beefed up ancient elephants ;) ).

I have it all the time, thought that is how the font should look like, silly me ;)

First check DirectX options 1. Execute dxdiag command from command line (or menu Start -> Run -> type "dxdiag" and hit enter) 2. Go to Display or Screen tab (sorry I don't know how exactly it's called in English version of DirectX as I use Polish) 3. See if you have "Fast AGP textures" on (or...

MUCH better :) Everything is again fast and smooth. It must be then that 64MB video memory thing. Thanks! However, corrupted leaderheads are still there. But I've also noticed that they are not always permanently gone - even after they turn invisible a little bit later sometimes show again...

Really hate to say it but... Yes, they're still around and I had them before. Now they seem to appear even faster (after 2-3 or so turns I believe). No, and didn't before. It's considerably slower. However I think it's not the globe view problem, but general one... see below Strange...

I'd try downloading the demo first, just to be prepared in case any problems occur. It's huge file though - 370 MB or so IIRC.

They're probably an expansion material.

You may want to try http://www.dvdboxoffice.com/ They just added Civ4 to preorders. Price = 56.95 CAD (plus FREE shipping worldwide :goodjob: ) Release Date: Monday, November 14, 2005 Edit: Checked Hungary, It's on the list!

I think warpstorm meant that CPU processing time is devoted mainly to execute in-game algorhitms and in between turns calculations while graphic cards processing unit does all the work needed for 3D/animations/antialiasing/light/whatever and generally all visual effects, hence main CPU work...

Excellent! After so many great news I predict Civ4: creation & customization forum being eventually more popular than this one! Civ3 is already almost there... Civ4: modders paradise :)

Actually, when strength of units is measured in relatively low integer numbers, given Civ 3 combat engine outcome of each battle it is far more predictable than if they were larger yet differing by the same amount (which is generally true as time passes and tech progresses). Look at this this...

We don't know for sure what system will be featured in Civ 4 but I don't generally see this concept as inherently bad. After all, Master of Orion has exactly that: some planets are better in production, some in research yet there is also a global planetary reserve pool which accumulates "unused"...