Recent content by Idlewood

Great job Mad, and to think I started this ball rolling last week by asking what I thought was a simple question about wownders and a comprehensive guide!! Many thanks for it, lots of good pointers for lower level players like me. Keep up the good work!!

Just to clarify one of the earlier posts, do you get the points for fighting within your own cultural boundaries if you only defend or if you defend and attack? Can anybody clarify this?

This is great guys, thank you all. I've looked at Sisiutil's strategy guide for beginners and he doesn't cover every wonder, concentrating on the best ones/main ones players are likely to use. I've also lokked at the other links and comments from everybody so far. So, what I've done is to...

Cheers MI6, thanks for the 2 cents. What got me started on this topic was the game I was playing last night. I'm Qin, built the Great Wall and then took 2 border cities from Byzantines in a short war; I've got Monty to my north and Ragnar off to my east. So after fighting with the Byzantines...

Hi All, I've had a look but can't find a guide to the World and National Wonders, synergies etc for using them to their best effect; I know every game is unique and you have to play to the map and opponents, but there are some excellent general guides to leaders, units and buildings to...

Hi all, Well I'm playing Noble as Jao and I'm into the industrial era and doing very well; this is the first time I've played a game this far and I'm looking for some general advice/pointers/tips from more experience players to show me where I could have done better and where I should go now...

Excellent writeup, many thanks m'lord for continuing the ALC series; I'm just a humble noble player but I have gleaned many nuggets from reading this series and have just finished a marathon medieval war and vasseled my two much bigger neighbours following SoD advice from this series; it's...

Just wanted to join the chorus (and late as usual, I'm the fella who's always one word behind the rest) and say a big thank you to Sis, the ALC series has been brilliant and informative and has helped me tremendously in playing this game and getting hours of blood thirsty enjoyment.....errm, i...

Hi again, Well in the end(!) settled on doing a drive partition, with the new drive being XP Pro and installing Civ there; works no problems (was fun tho doing the partition and installing all the drivers etc!!). Many thanks for the advice and help over the past week. Cheers, Idlewood

Cheers Ori, I'll give that a try later. Been looking online and there sems to be a newer version of Catalyst and drivers for my card from ATI which were only released at the start of April (only found that by looking direct at the ATI site, my update says I'm all updated but I ain't), so I'll...

HI Ori, Many thanks tried that but no difference I'm afriad. Should I be looking for somthing else in the error file? I'm afraid I'n not a techinical genius with these things but I'm learning! Only other ideas I have is to try and roll back drivers/catalyst center to earlier settings and...

FAlso read under an earlier post at the start of this thread and found the following log which times to the last time I tried to boot up Civ; its saved as a text doc in the My Documents/My Games/BtS/Logs/PythonErr2 and says: sys.path = ['..\\WARLORDS\\ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\email'...

I think (if I've got this right) this is what the event log shows under WMI Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2"...

:cry:Thanks Ori, Tried that but no different. I should mention I have also got the SDK update and the 32dll in the system 32 folder. Any other ideas I can try?? Please

Hi, I've installed BtS on my new Vista 32bit laptop, plays fine first time but when the machine is rebooted it starts to load up then the screen changes to black for the graphics....and it stays there. I've done a complete uninstall and manually removed all files left behind, installed...