Recent content by Grond

I can chat in game fine but in the gamespy lobby and in the prelaunch room I can't chat or send private messsages. :( I'm sure my hardware is more than adequate, I have all software firewalls off and put my computer in the DMZ. Any ideas???

In my opinion the combined troop support for town + city is too low to make it a viable government but I have occasionally found it useful. It has always been the following situation: 1. Fighting too much to be able to handle the anarchy to switch to Monarchy/Republic 2. Agricultural civ with...

Agriculture dominates so Iroquois, Celts or Mayans.

Anybody thats turned on edit rules knows the dire warning that appears. Is it really that unstable? Are there certain areas you change safely and certain things you should avoid?

I'd like to try and slow down Ancient Age and Middle Ages since they are the most interesting and there are so many things you have to get done then that if you do any real fighting you fall hopelessly behind. I tried adjusting the time scale under scenario properties but didn't seem to help. Is...

In my current game on a smallest map I experienced a sudden massive slowdown, taking up to 10 seconds just to select a unit. I saved and restarted my computer but same problem. I went to an autosave from 2 turns before and was able to play for 5 turns then it happened again. I'm using Conquests...

For most games it is not illegal for LAN games.

I heard PTW was unstable without a CD in each machine for a LAN game. Will that be fixed for Conquests? Will there be a requirment of number of CD's per player?

What is the highest number of players people have successfully used in a LAN game. Does the no AI restriction only apply to turnless? Can you set a time limit on the simulatenous mode?