Recent content by michael4000

You probably know this, but on the tax window you can get around the frozen cursor by pushing numbers 1 through 5 to indicate 10 through 50%.

Thanks, guys. The formula link is pretty comprehensive.

Question: Is there anything you can do, outside of Racial characteristics, housing, and cloning center, that changes a planet's population growth rate in MOOII?

Got my old MOO2 disk back last week from a friend who nicked it in 2001 or so. I've been playing it every night. It's a fine, fine game.

Thanks for the idea, Olorin.

Thanks, vmxa, for pointing out Moby Games. I can't find it there, though. I think this game I'm looking for might have just been someone's private development project that I bumped into accidentally, so it might have been way, way under the radar....

A few years ago, I wasted a lot of time playing a game on the internet that reminded me of MOO stripped down to the most basic possible form. It was real-time, played against a single computer opponent on a starfield with maybe three different classes of stars. Depending on the star's class...

Handy, thanks...

Drkodos, I appreciate your response. Interesting point, now that you mention it, about how opposite the civic is from the actual history of slavery. Hadn't noticed that before....

Nothing strange about it. If you approach Civ as an immersive experience as opposed to an abstract game, it is, for a few of us anyway, simply no fun to pretend to enslave people. Some people automate workers because they don't think improving terrain is fun; some people avoid slavery because...

Kerphunk -- Welcome to Civ. If you are not always sure what you ought to do next, don't feel bad; I've been playing for more than 10 years and I'm nowhere near a master of the game. It's unbelieveably addictive though, and by the sound of your last post you may be starting to feel that. I...

Hmm, that brings up a question. I build forges and factories to capitalize on the strength of cities that have strong hammer production, and generally wouldn't bother with them in cities that don't produce many hammers. Am I screwing up?

Oh, and can I be the first one to say it? You really shouldn't be automating those workers.

It could be just a relative thing. In CIV III, you got used to seeing your capital as a powerhouse because corruption reduced the production of most other cities that weren't right next door to virtually nothing. In CIV IV, that doesn't happen, so even if your capital is doing quite well it's...

Very true. But, it is awfully cluttered, and downright ugly when you zoom in. ("So just don't zoom in," somebody will say -- yeah, I figured that out.) It's just that since the interface is, like you say, a gameboard with gamepieces, the whole 3-D aspect just seems like overkill to some of...