Recent content by Master Ray

I say Tokugawa. He always is far behind in techs and wants to stay in isolation the whole game.

I am retired and play about 6-7 hours a day while my honey is slaving away at her business.

I am 46. Been playing Civ since 1991. I played civilization type games in high school on the terminal connected to the main frame. No graphics but a text game where you had to decide how much grain each of your cities put towards growth, taxes, or sold. Does anyone else remember such a game?

I was playing on noble.

In my last game, they actually gave to me techs on four different occasions. It was in the late stages of the game and out of the blue the Americans, Persians and Mali popped up and offered me a tech with no strings attached.

I have the same problem when I load a huge map, however when I back down to a large map everything works fine. My system is a Sony P4, 1.8 ghz, 1 GMB, with a geforce 5500 256k video. Graphics set to medium settings. It is doesn't always happen, I have successfully played on a huge map until...

I also have been having problems with saved games. They load slow and then the first couple of turns are extremely slow. Once it gets past a few turns the game speeds back up to normal. I have defragged my hard drive, memory, shut down all unnecessary services and done a fresh restall of the...

I had the same sign on problems until I upgraded to a new Geforce 5500 FX graphics card. Now no problem signing in to gamespy. Maybe there is a minimum spec to sign in? Old card was Geforce 4000 MX.

Ditto, 1.8 ghz P4 1024 MB

Got the next to last copy from Walmart today at 3:30 pm. No problems to report except choppy audio in opening movie.

Hey Jake, I am in the same boat as you since we live near each other. My experience with PTW and Conquest was that our local Wally World had them in stock by the Friday after the release date. Usually they have the shelf UPC code up where it will get stocked at, but so far that hasn't even...

I found my love at church, so all I have to do is mention that Civ IV is all about religion and spreading my faith.

I just realized that I am also on girlfriend IV since civ I. Just this morning she asked if there was any sex in the game! She can't imagine me spending hours on end just reading the forums about some silly computer game without it having something to do with sex. She even sneaks around and...

8/10. Once a patch is out probably a 9. I am surprised so many bugs got through the public beta testing.

It would be nice if the points needed for the actual victory would be updated to reflect the fact that it needs to be double the next civs point.