Recent content by MacDeepBlue

I have always thought that the navy was way too weak (and really even the airforce) in civ. In civ 3 I moded it so that they were much more powerfull, but I have not gotten into mods yet in Civ 4. In the real world, navies and airforces are way more important than they are in civ. I wish I...

OK, I only got half way through the post so maybe someone already mentioned this but... It seems like we are associating protective with isolationist, and if that is the case why the heck do not the Americans get it. Washington would be a superb canidate. It must be that the developers are...

When I first read about the concept of reliogions in Civ, I thought it was a great idea. But after months of playing I feel that they have not tapped their potential. There are probably already some mods that include some of these things, but if I had any modding knowledge I would combine them...

The way civ works does seem to incorperate a more 'primitive' way that national boundries work. If I remember my history correctly, after the treaty of Westphilia sometime in the 1600s national boundries became much more stable. After that there have not been too many times where a city or...

That basically sums it up. Tried new patch (1.61) no help. Tried reinstalling, no help. Any help would be much appreciated. If it helps, the message comes up before the loading screen does.

Being fed up with all the crashes and video problems in Civilization I decided to go out and buy a different game until they get it fixed. Having not played Pirates yet I thought I would give it a go, figureing that there was no way firaxis would have the same problem on two of its games...

How do i do that? And not being much of a hardware person, can I do that when I have a pci-e card? If not, any other ideas?

I have noticed that some other people have a similiar problem but there does not seem to be a solution to this graphics problem (see screenshot). I have noticed that it only does it on Large maps and it almost always happens when diplomacy is initiated. Just in case they are coorolated I also...

I just came to the forums to post the same problem. I have a brand new AMD 64 3800+ e-GeForce 6600 LE 1 gig of ram no sound card (it is not yet compatible with xp 64) playing the 1.09 patch and running on xp 64 I thought maybe it was the opporating system as I could not find anyone else...

I have always thought that more statistics would be cool in the game. I get a lot of joy at seeing when I am leading in certain areas in civ 3, but the one little page is far too few. And what was with the land area in the stats in civ 3, it always seemed way wrong. I think they should have...

A year and a half ago I was able to buld a 2.2 athlon, 256 megs ram, 80 gig hard drive, 128 meg geforce graphics card for just over $200. Look around for ads in stores and rebates and stuff. If you are patient and do not buy all at once you can get smoking deals. (I got lots of the stuff at...

I think that the idea of 'Glory Victory' would just become like some of the bad victory paths of civ 3. Instead, you can get a more realistic situation if you just expand on the region concept. IE in a WWII senerio Gernmany conquors France and becomes a region (or more than one region) and...