Recent content by Ironrod

In light of the announcement about the Brave New World expansion, has work on NiGHTS stopped? I quit playing it a few weeks ago due to the AI tech balance issue but have been checking in periodically in the hope of seeing some progress. GEM is a good mod, too, but not nearly as comprehensive...

I had a lot of fun for a long time playing NiGHTS, which is actually more comprehensive than this one. I only recently abandoned that and installed GEM because NiGHTS has a balance problem that made all games unfold the same way for me, and development seems to have come to a stop. It's well...

Thanks! I'm taking a break from Civ for awhile, but look forward to playing patch 2.5.2. Hope you guys can get your latest Beta ready for prime time before the new expansion comes out. :cry:

Thanks for that link. I finished my 2.5.1 game. Hit the Wat bug again when I took over an AI capital, but I was able to get past that with the hotfix. Now I would like to upgrade to 2.5.2. Where do I drop that file (which folder)? Or, if it's more complicated than that, can you link me to...

Apparently 2.5.1 is the Steam version. Where can I download 2.5.2? (I don't want the buggy 2.6 beta that everybody's talking about, but rather your highest release version). Is there a reason that Steam is still distributing the older version? If I upgrade from 2.5.1 midgame will it break my...

I am playing whatever version autoinstalls through Steam Workshop. It's quite possible that I had opened the commerce policy tree. As I said, I didn't make any effort to run down the gold display bug. I'll poke through your forums a bit to get a better idea of what's going on with this...

I had this same bug tonight. Had to revert to an autosave before the wonder was finished and delete it from my build queue. Bug doesn't occur when the AI builds the wonder. Oh, and it's only cities that have a shrine or temple that won't give you the build menu. I finally had to abandon my...

Well, I'm not playing Civ at all anymore due to my frustration with the runaway AI tech. And my games usually end before nukes become common, so I have limited experience with advanced warfare. In my last game, though, both of my major AI rivals were lobbing nukes at me as fast as they could...

I have changed my play style to be much more aggressive in the early to mid game, while I still have my tech edge (or at least parity), because the game usually turns hopeless once the AI snowballs. But that only works on maps where there's no insulated AI with good resources. This is a...

The late-game runaway AI is becoming very frustrating, game after game. Think I might play a game of vanilla G&K to see if it's just a NiGHTS problem or if it's a Firaxis problem.

That mid-game technology snowball is frustrating. I typically lead until around 1500 AD, give or take 100 years (playing on Marathon)...and then at least one AI rockets ahead, vacuuming up all the wonders as it goes. By the time I hit the modern era, I'm behind. If my own civ is in a position to...

New patch? My Knights & Kings updated itself last night and NiGHTS installed v.5. Everything seems to be working fine. The only differences I've noticed are some interface tweaks and fixes.

I seem to remember that Fall from Heaven 2 had its own scoreboard, separate from vanilla Civ scores. But it's a long time since I've played that and I could be wrong. It seems like it should be easy enough to write mod scores to a separate Hall of Fame database and load that with the rest of...

I don't know if you can do anything about it, but I sure would like NiGHTS games to register in the Hall of Fame.

My problem cleared up after some laborious measures that ended in a complete reinstall. Steam's integrity check kept finding some invalid files and failing to fix them. Sometimes nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.