Recent content by kjaye

I agree Israel simply have to be in this game. No country or nation has had and continues to have such a disproportionate influence on the history of civilisation on this planet. Considering that such legendary characters in world history as Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon and of...

Actually I don't think Civ is as complicated as it seems. Sure there are loads of 'potential' things to do each move but not everything needs to be analysed and you could break down each move into just a few options, for example build infrastructure, build military, wage war, group units...

I expect it will be a carbon copy of what was in Alpha Centuri, i.e beat a civ up enough and they will surrender to you, saving you the hassle of manually taking out every city. They continue in the game but are classed as a conquered civ for you so that domination and conquest victories are...

I always do some scouting beforehand and make sure I know exactly where the enemies strategic resources are. If you fighting in the early game make sure you know where the enemies iron, copper, horses and ivory are. Mass just outside their borders as close to each resource as possible...

Surely you have seen First Blood with Slyvestor Stallone? Remember how in that after throwing himself off that cliff and into the trees below he threw stones at the helicopter windscreen and in the commotion the sniper shooting at him fell out and tumbled to his death! Ok so he didn't...

Yes it is. I've been in a Sikh temple years ago when doing RS A Level. They wear turbans and are legally allowed to carry a ceremonial dagger, well they were back in 1991, although with todays anti-terror laws in Britain I don't know. Strangely their 'shrine' consisted of a huge 4 poster bed...

I'm not at all interested in seeing more future stuff simply because for me the game is nearly always over well before 2000 so I rarely even use fighter,bombers or modern armour let alone any more future technology than that. I would like to see some kind of boat that could attack land based...

Great thanks for the quick replies guys. I'm going to load it up to check it out now. Am I right in assuming a rival civ will only dislike you on religious grounds if they have a different state religion from you, and that if they have no state religion they will not care what religion you...

I've been playing this game for a few weeks now but I still don't know how you can tell what religion a rival civ is. I like to try and keep up to date with diplomatic relations but I'm finding this impossible to keep track of. It's so frustrating to have a friendly civ suddenly turn...

It's not a very realistic state of affairs though is it. I don't remember Julius Ceaser or William the Conquerer rushing to build theaters and trying to flood conquered cities with Elvis impersonators and painters in a bid to win over the natives.

I think forts should be used a lot more in this game. My own take on them is as follows, You should be able to build them ANYWHERE even in ENEMY territory! This might be controversial but it is what happend in real life, think Edward Longshanks and his fortresses throughout Wales, what...

For me tanks are the best units by far. I'm still playing on noble after having only bought the game a couple weeks ago but I've completed and won two epic games now. Both times I've got tanks way before anyone else and cleaned up with them. They manage to take out any cites I aim for...

I'm the same, got a 3 gig Pentium, 1 gig ram and a Radeon x800 pro. I run it at 1600x1200 with 4 times antialiasing. Game looks great and runs fine. It's not really a graphics intensive game at all. Try getting Oblivion to run at 1600x1200 and you'll see :)

I've had Hatty give me a tech on my current game, when I asked if she could spare it for a good friend. I've also had Asoka bullying me for tribute a few times. He demanded 230 gold from me or else he said we were at war, I refused and immediately demanded tribute from him in return and the...

Actually 7 is enough. Already Islam appears too late in the game to really make an impact and so adding further religions would lesson the impact of particular religions still further. AS regarding most of the pagan religions, are they not covered with the mysticim and polytheism technologies...