Recent content by glothar

How about a quick story: I bought Civ IV. When I got home, I installed it. I popped in the install disc, and started it up. It crashed. So I started it up again. It crashed again. I tried fiddling with the graphical settings and options, but no luck. Nothing I set would let me start up a...

There are two issues I've run across in hotseat games. The first I've seen posted here recently, but I can give a little more informaiton about it. During the periodic ranking screens, the ranking is shown relative to the last human player in the round, but is shown at the same time as the...

Yes, actually. It's like asking for a car that can tow a flatbed of steel I-beams and get 60 mi/gal while doing it. You can't have infinite complexity and idiot-proof simplicity at the same time. Now, I'm not saying we can't have tools to help with some of this. It's easy to create a pretty...

As a software engineer, I find this attitude rather annoying. Without spending a second to look at what the World Building is supposed to do, you immediately declare that the modding system sucks. You want the modding system to be better than Civ III but simpler to use. You want to be able to...

This is yet another instance of old Civ III ideas not working in Civ IV. Welcome to a better diplomacy system. You can ask the "friendly" country to end its open boarders agreement, but only by asking them to end all trade with the other country. Even if there was an option to simply close...

I have my copy in my car right now. I'll get around to installing it sometime tonight. Of interest to those of you who didn't preorder, my EBGames (Rockville, MD) said they got 20 copies in. 10 are preorders, all of which were already spoken for. Of the other 10, 4 of them were bought off...