Recent content by jamespetts

Maybe I should try winning a domination victory one day...

Useful tips about city specialisation: thank you :-) But as to wars: if it stunts the AI, then doesn't it also stunt me? Is it not often the case that, while I'm fighting a war with somebody else on my continent, another civilisation on another, more peaceful continent, is rushing ahead in the...

I haven't played Civ IV a great deal (two goes through to the end, one on Chieften and one on Noble, both time victories, and a few false starts on Noble), and one thing that I don't seem to have mastered yet is the right balance between civillian and military production. Some of the games in...

I have noticed that, since installing 1.61 (from 1.09), some of the battle animations don't work properly, in that the component of the animation where one of my units loses a battle is often skipped: the unit just disappears, instead of being visibly slain. This did not happen before. Also...

I am having the same problem, too. I did not try multiplayer until after I installed the patch (1.61). I use a firewall (Zone Alarm Pro), but, although the problem's symptoms have some superficial similarities to firewall related problems, the firewall's behaviour is inconsistent, since it does...