Recent content by KayAU

I've always liked Civ 5 better than 6, which is why I returned to it a couple of years ago. There are certainly things about 6 I like, but I find it very hard to play these days. The three main problems I have with it are: 1. A severe lack of interaction between the many systems. There is so...

SMAC had memorable leaders, and the voiceovers and quotes did a great job of making them come alive. I do think they were 1-dimensional to the point of caricature though, as they usually had 1 defining character trait each. Lal was the diplomatic peacekeeper, Morgan was the profit-obsessed CEO...

An interesting game, which while it needs work in some areas, has a promising set of core mechanics.

Well, I never...I was sure it didn't work. I vaguely recall there was a thread about it, and my own experience after trying it on Windows 11 was that it didn't work, but I don' think I re-verified the game files. I do play with Vox Populi, but I don't know if that makes a difference. Anyway...

Those are quite old games, though, about 14 and 12 years old respectively. How the graphics look, especially taking into account things like art style, is not necessarily indicative of system requirements, and apart from the battle viewer, I don't think Millennia's graphics are necessarily that...

Thank you...I'm dumb. I was using the latest version by adan_eslavo, but came to the erroneous conclusion that it wasn't working based on starting a game and finding a bunch of resources missing from the resource list. Trying it again now, I realized that it will of course only show the...

:-D I'm happy to accept on the basis of our shared love of CotNW. I feel like it's a bit of a forgotten gem, and it had a bunch of cool mechanics. Like how you got to name and received points for discovering significant terrain features.

Oh, I might try that then. :-) I've tried both version 8 and version 11 of the mod, but only with VP 4.4.2. It loaded, and some of the new resources would appear, but a bunch of existing resources disappeared from the game. Which version of the mod were you using?

Yeah, I personally don't care that much about the graphics for this screen (the map visuals are far more important to me), but it is clear that it has hurt the first impression for a lot of people, and the usefulness is dubious. The only use I can think of is that it visualizes the combat...

It's just a bit of variety. :) I love collecting resources to gain their monopoly bonuses, and which resources are nearby impacts some of my choices in the early game. I also like what they add to the map visually. I looked at that one...unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with the latest...

For the slightly less ambitious, I think those extra resources could add a lot to the game. :-)

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of valid criticisms here, but I do find the basic gamepay quite enjoyable. I always play in a peaceful builder style, and this part of Millennia I think is quite promising. One of the criticisms I fully agree with, is that the game is moving way too fast...

@Dale With regards to mana buckets, I think it depends. I agree about using them to summon units, where there is already a perfectly fine mechanism for unit creation. For creating terrain improvements however, I think the way Millennia does it is very good. You talk about "pixie dust", but I...

@Boris Gudenuf I can't comment specifically about the Raider domain, as I haven't tried it, but hopefully balance will be improved. I am not too worried about the resource game becoming tedious, although I haven't seen enough of it to know for sure. My guess is that once you have played it a...

I have already played through the demo twice, and now I am going to do it a third time. There's a lot to like here, and for me, the resource system is maybe the best part. The 4X games I tend to enjoy most, are the ones in which I keep setting new goals for myself. Scout this area, exploit that...