Recent content by Lewsir

So why, in this day and age, do they release it one continent at a time?

Why not? Seems logical there would be another...

Maybe this is a key point - those who really don't mind, or who even enjoy, MM prefer III, those who found it annoying prefer IV. For example, when I play III I generally set my cities to automatically avoid going into disorder - without that on I just can't play it at all, especially with a...

My view: 1) its fair to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each game - if you can't handle it, don't read the thread. 2) I have actually been playing both III and IV a fair bit lately (given my laptop can't handle IV) and frankly I think some folks are forgetting the weaknesses in...

And it doesn address the basic issue - trying to get Firaxis to focus on gameplay rather than graphics. Looking back through the various wish lists, I see a lot of things that would easily fit into an expansion, rather than have to wait for CIV 5 (which I hope does provide some major new...

Duraska is right - time to just get over this 2d thing. We've got 3d CIV now, that's how it is. But yes lets hope they give it a rest now and focus on gameplay. Its all about gameplay. Variation. New strategies. Interesting predicaments. Interesting negotiations with other civs. That kind of...

It's kind of refreshing to see people talk openly about this :-). My problem is that its just too damn tempting to have it there, for times when - if only that resource were one square over!!! For a while I was getting worse with it till I began to add units when in trouble, but then realized...

Ramarawr, its a bit hard to tell just how much you've played this before. Seems like not much (though if you know about chopping and whipping, that's something). It's going to take forever if you want people to walk you through each move. I would recommend that you save the game, and fool around...

Rod I like that, you just reduced Firaxis basically to an art studio:). But the point is well taken, if the modders have done so much that they are essentially ahead of Firaxis on gameplay, I hope Firaxis isn't spending huge amounts of effort to play catch-up. I hope they are not too proud to...

Potto, that all sounds pretty cool. Though some of that might have to wait for CIV 5, being fairly major overhauls. Here's a hopefully simple idea (that I admit I'm stealing from someone on another recent thread - the one on the problem if losing interest in games half way through - with a...

I agree with Backblast - the way to work in comebacks in CIV 4 is to program the AI to go for a cultural or diplo victory when it (the particular civ) realizes that its not going to win any other way. That's my usual comeback strategy at least - I've won a bunch of games through cultural victory...

It amazes me how many of the wish list items pertain to units. It would definitely be nice but I am most frustrated by the on-going relatively mediocre IA and diplomacy in the game. This is where I feel CIV can really stand out from other games, and this is where they should put their major...

Okay I'm sure this is very old news, but I just recently got into playing CIV 4 and have discovered that the World Builder is like a built in super-cheat mode letting you alter anything during a game. Geez do people have self-control enough not to use this thing all the time? I'm having...

What about going for golden ages? When's that the best choice? They are great but not very long...

Sounds like a very useful toggle for an expansion (or maybe a patch if simple to do...). Let the player choose "random" or "balanced" resources for the game.