Recent content by jonax

You could have a flavour system so that the Celts could be named Scots, Welsh, Picts, Irish, Boii, Briton... or the Slavs be named Russian, Moravian, Serb, Polish, Ukrainian. This could allow you to play "your" nation or tribe without have hundreds of identical civs. Also the idea of nations is...

I agree that less is more interesting, and that the limit should be lower if anything. A soft stacking limit can make the game not only more realistic, but also better. To tie this into the terrain discussion, I think that limit should be dependent on terrain. You can amass more people in a...

Some natural walls, like the Upper Himalayas, are impassable to all land units even today. Others are impassable for a large part of the year. On the other hand mountain ranges quite commonly have passes, which can be very strategically important. The terrain generator isn't very realistic...

An alternative would be to simply consider desert impassable. That is really the case for the driest, hottest part of Sahara, Gobi, Namib even to this day. Cambyses supposedly lost an entire army 50.000 strong in Egypt. Alexander was lucky not to perish in Gedrosia. I have no example of modern...

Shipping lanes as in 1. would be grossly unrealistic given the (no pun intended) fluid nature of naval transport, but 2. and possibly strategic warfare (attacking trade) sounds good. Slowing down damaged ships make sense too.

If (more long-lived) factions were added to Civ, there might be more use for guerrillas/terrorism. Civ represents the regular invasions from outside fairly well (the barbarian hordes), but not discontent and rebellion from inside apart from lost production. If there are resistors there might be...

Terrorism and guerrilla warfare are two combat methods, factions go from civil war to guerilla war to terrorism or back again based on their relative strenght. I don't think terrorism adds much on the level of civililizations, it is too ineffectual and already covered as destabilization for...

Fantasy terrain apart, this is what I have wanted to suggest for terrestial terrain too. If a galley leaves the coast it may well sink, but put a spearman in the desert for centuries and it won't even feel the heat. Desert squares should be as deadly as sea or ocean squares. If you go into...

I have the same problem with a right-out-of-the-box Civilization Complete that I bought a couple weeks ago. After install and re-install I still get the Insert Disk 3 message. From another message this seems to be configuration related and not due to faulty disk (the CD reads fine from...