Recent content by Hurin

I could be wrong, but I don't think this is a new phenomenon with BTS. I think it has always been this way.

Unless I'm mistaken, In Warlords and Vanilla, a worker set to "Automated -- Nearest City Only" would go to "sleep" in the city when there was nothing left to improve. But, upon the discovery of railroad (and the availability of coal), they would awaken and build railroads on mines and...

I think you're missing his point. His point is that these are games for your entertainment. You don't need it. It's not air, food, or shelter. So, casting game publishers as yet another "evil corporation" just out for profit is just silly considering that it's the free market system and the...

. . . and the family next door cheats on their taxes, and the father once failed to tip the waiter on a $200 dinner bill. So, I just helped myself to their Playstation 3 the next time they were out of town. After all, they're not perfect citizens. . . so anything I do to them must be...

Regarding the original Civ manual referenced above. . . That was back in the Microprose era. Microprose manuals were the best. You bought M1 Tank Platoon and you got a long, detailed manual where at least one third of it was context and detailed explanations of doctrine and real-world specs...

No. Just worked. But I recently wiped and installed Windows XP 64-bit. So I've got a clean system with all latest drivers. I played for several hours before I realized I hadn't added an SLi profile (by editing the nvapps.xml file). But it continued to work normally after I added the profile.

Congrats on your honesty and integrity. Something woefully lacking these days. To make it easier on you, you should look in your shipping box. Gamestop usually includes pre-paid return shipping labels. But, of course, remember to attach a note stating that you don't need a refund! Best, H...

Exactly. Saw this happen yesterday. If you made a demand that is accepted, you can't attack that civ for ten turns due to "peace treaty." I would assume the same happens when you cave into a demand. Makes sense of course. Otherwise, you can extort techs/money/resources from a civ, and...

Well, make sure you continue to try to track this down on your end because it need not be this way. I played a couple of hours in SLi last night with 8800gtx. Make sure you go into the nvapps.xml file and add a profile for Beyond the Sword (just copy the ones for Warlords or Vanilla and adjust...

Well, that' could help offset things I suppose. . . but there really should be some level of degree in there. You should get a lot more appreciation for giving 20 cavalry versus just one. A big city versus a recently conquered barbarian city of population 1, etc. Of course, that may just be...

Hi All, I recently had a small annoyance. I was the superpower in my game. I had been on friendly terms with the nations immediately surrounding me (Egypt, English). However, the Arabian Empire on the far side of our continent had a bad habbit of habitually attacking me and my friends...

Regarding the need for new "combined artwork" for forts that would share tile with improvements: Really? I thought that the new 3D nature of the engine would facilitate easy "stacking" of art assets on top of each other. And, even if it didn't stack perfectly well (aesthetically), I think I'd...

I finished my first marathon game over the weekend. In hindsight, I saw some of this behavior as well. But, the benefits of a marathon game (better diplomacy, deeper strategy) far outweighed these "problems" for me. I did notice that the enemy failed to bounce back with newer armies after...

From my experience: I had a defensive pact with America, Egypt, India, and England. England was attacked (by the French). I was notified that I had declared war on France, and all my defensive pacts were cancelled. Whenever you declare war on anyone (whether automatically via pact obligation...

I have a very high-end system and I know what I'm doing. So, no surprise that I can play the game on huge maps w/ Epic timescale for 10 hours straight with no crashes or problems (even in late-game). My brother, who has no clue about computers and doesn't do a darn thing to keep his system...