Recent content by Lab Monkey

Good to see a well maintained unit library back up and running... Great work!

The CtP stacked combat system was made worse by the game's dire strength balancing of the units. Civ4 could easily correct it's faults. One idea could be that the units would be broken down into classes - Attackers, defenders, ranged attackers, ranged defenders, and artillery. First, the...

Bush frightens us. He is a trained monkey, and should not have been put in control of a sharp instrument, let a lone a country. Hey. You deserve him. Warned for trolling

What the **** is it with this gun porn? I'm stuck on an estate where a dozen kids no older than ten have all been bought pellet guns, and now anyone with an open window risks finding their house full of shot. I threatened to tell the parents, but being alcoholics who give them the guns to keep...

This sort of thing is nothing new here. It's just another nutter. To be honest, I've watched enough CNN and Fox News to know that American news agencies are no better than the British tabloid press when it comes to presenting a balanced debate.

Sweeny Todd - I find that it's the right-wingers who have the cushion of a comfortable background (and family wealth) who are the least likely to work. You just sound a little frustrated with all your trolling- does anyone here work as a therapist?. As for myself, I've just turned my back on...

A war memorial for the media generation? As long as a more permanent monument is also made.

It's pretty subjective, and depends on whom is writing the news bullitens/ government press release. When exactly did terrorists first come into being? Were Viking raiders terrorists? They certainly fit Mr President's description. Are terrorists a by-product of the clash between two very...

The option to turn off SGLs is the last in the victory conditions options box on the Civ select screen. On my version it's default setting was off, oddly.

The Greeks are helping me no end with my monarch games - the Hoplite's defence pretty much guarantees survival through to the middle ages, and I've got 2 SGLs already through their scientific trait.

Are you serious that there is no topless bathing alowed in the US?! That's pretty bad for a supposedly civilized and enlightened nation.

It's just a case of Firaxis running out of ideas - particularly as most Civs have no other UU options than the usual Knights or first wave units. The problem with making an ancient american UU is that you really only have the warrior or archer or scout to play with, so options will be...

Never heard of these? Where abouts are they found? Civ does still retain some unused stuff - most famously the unused animated medieval military advisor (in the same vanilla Civ3 folder containing the intro). I doubt this is a bug - most likely Firaxis never coded it in but didn't bother...

I lost Modern armours to riflemen on Monarch when attacking a metropolis - it's uncommon to loose outright but easy to take lots of damage.

If you abandon the city with the FP in, can you build it again? Or is it a one off thing, like great wonders? I ought to give it a try...