Recent content by jbarry39

actually it WAS Hatty who nicked my city!!! but we were allied - i.e. had like a +12 relationship going...

thank you!

I found ironclads only good for coastal defence in the post-frigate period. But you can quickly upgrade up to destroyers...

Yesterday I ran into a unique issue... Having a war with the Mongols...It took me several turns and a few losses to capture one of his cities. I was able to capture the city and moved on. Now the city was in a unruly state for a few turns (3 I think) I did have units stationed there. But...

agreed....you really have to consider the geography of the planet you are playing on to dictate your future strategy down the road. Never underestimate the importance of a good defense fleet...I basically parked a bunch of frigates, galleons and then later destroyers all along the...

thanks... It's just not practical to mount a long campaign to go after the rival civs on the big continent far away...I already trashed the one neighbor that was giving me grief on my home continent...besides, he was parked on the only coal deposits anywhere near my SOI...ahh how fiction...

Dedicated Mac-head since 1985... When the game is completed (i.e. you reach 2050 etc)...do you have the option to continue the game in-place? I'm on a planet with 2 big continents and my foes are just simply too far away to mount a practical amphib campaign. I basically want to fortify...

Thanks for the advices. Will config the AutoSave to do so every turn and will do a "hard save" after every hour of play. As an aside - I downloaded the January 24 patch 1.6 rev B (I think) - I notice the animations are crisper and not choppy and I put it through it's paces (opened multiple...

First of all...I've been a fan of the game since way back in my PC days (when MircroProse put the game out...) But on my system: Early 2006 iMac 1.86GHz Processor - 1Gig RAM - 128Meg Video card I usually get about 2-2.5hours on the game before Crash To Desktop rears its ugly head I...