Recent content by Marmoset

Catherine has become my favorite leader. (I just won my first prince game with her, posted in strategy thread). She has creative and financial traits, and I find that to be good for maintaining a good tech rate, but also for fighting as well. Creative means that every city produces an extra 2...

I finally managed to win a game at prince difficulty - a domination win playing as Catherine, finishing around 1950 (normal speed, standard continents map). I thought I'd share the highlights of my game for others who might have gone through the same frustrations trying to win at this level...

I clicked "Great Leader" and "Henchman of Bush", which may seem contradictory, but let me explain. Up until Iraq, I think Tony Blair had a very positive portrayal here in Canada. He was young, bright, full of new ideas, seemed to have the confidence of his people - pretty much everything you...

I went with the Russians. I've only started playing as Catherine recently, and so far I'm finding I've been able to take several different approaches and have some success; plus, in the current game I've been able to overcome a lack of several resources on my large continent due to plain bad...

That's the setup I use for most of my noble games, so it should be fine (I alternate between Noble and Prince right now, depending on what I feel like at the time). If you search around you'll find lots of tips on things you might need to try to be more successful at noble. I find...

I'm curious if anybody knows how the various resources are allocated on the landscape in Civ4. Usually I find them to be fairly randomly distributed as far as I can tell, but right now I'm playing a game where that's far from the case. I'm playing a standard continents game on Noble as the...

I've only played Thief 3 and I thought it was great. There's one level in particular towards the end that makes the game worth it just on its own. Prepare to be freaked out if you attempt it! The museum level is also pretty darn good. On top of that, the story was decent. But...

At lower levels I found light armour to be useful mainly just because I could carry more things on me. When I was going around closing oblivion gates, that mean I could bring more fancy loot home with me, which meant I had more gold. It did make me need to repair my armour a lot more, which...

I always thought that English WAS the official language of the U.S. until this issue popped up. I certainly think it makes sense to make that a reailty. It's the one language used by the vast majority of the population. In Canada, we have two official languages, English and French. This...

Can you give me a hint about where to go to try starting this quest? It sounds really neat! I did the mage's dream quest. That one was fun, because you're not quite sure what's going on and whether the way the game plays in the 'regular' world of Oblivion still applies in the dream...

I'm still loving this game. I also like the discussion in this thread, because there's actually some continuity. The official forums are useful, but topics disappear down the list in seconds because it's so busy. There's a cheap shack near the Imperial city - go to the market district...

I'm a level 20 nightblade, currently working on the main quest. I'm in the exact same spot as you, just closed the second oblivion gate, although I had done a couple of other ones earlier just for fun. :D It seems that Oblivion is definitely winning out over Civ4 for me right now. I was just...

I've spent way too much time on the Oblivion forum, so I can offer my advice. People with processors in that range have generally had some trouble, although some have got it to work. Same idea with the RAM - people have managed to do it, but it can run a little slow. However, the video card...

A few comments on some recent posts ... I actually read a post on the Oblivion forum about a guy with dual 6600s getting worse performance than me with my single one. So maybe there's something to it. But I doubt it, that will most likely do a great job. At the moment, how good a card...

The screenshots I posted should give you and idea of the 6600! The 6800 seems to be getting varying results, some people have it cranked up pretty well but others aren't doing much better than the 6600 - I guess it all depends on the total system package. I personally think the 6600 is...