Recent content by jessewclark

I have been playing my current game with this strategy and I definitely feel it's an exploit. Actually, I'm not using the switching-production trick to quell discontent, just to build things fast. All of my cities are tiny, but productive. The reason I feel it's an exploit is that it's...

I wish I could see these screenshots, but the link doesn't work for me.

To run Civ 1 in color on os 9.2.2, I had to find a little extension called CivHackFAT. Without it, starting the color version would result in a big graphic mess that didn't work at all. With it, things work fine (but be sure to switch your monitor to 256 colors before starting Civ 1). I don't...

I already knew about all that turning off preferences stuff, but thanks anyway. The one thing I hadn't heard before was the auto-save thing. But I have yet to see if it makes a difference. One thing that definitely speeds up menus and stuff is turning Quartz off. Interesting side note...

Thanks for the tip... but hmmm... that's a tough choice... speed up the game but lose autosave... not that I'm a big save-and-loader (what, no Iron Man option here?) but the game has crashed on me before...

So, yeah, new here, hi. Some questions: 1) The text on my City Advisor screen is all funky. Purple and fuzzy and not in that cool Quartz way. (I'm playing in X 10.1.5.) It looks bad. Anyone else having that problem? 2) With Quartz disabled, sometimes cmd-G doesn't work: the map grid...

#39 here. New to these parts. Just came around since I couldn't find a mac-specific forum at Apollyton. Not to start an argument, just my two cents, I like Civ III better than Civ II. So far. I do miss some things from SMAC, though.