Recent content by Ochylski

I did get a laptop under $1200 (after rebates and all of course) from CompUSA. Try the Toshiba Satellite M55-S325. Pentium M Processor (Centrino) 1.73GHz 14" diagonal WXGA 512 DDR SDRAM (I bought another 512 for a gig of RAM) 5400 RPM 100 GB HDD DVD SuperMulti Double Layer (edit: Mobile Intel...

I remember that I learned the word "irrigation" from this game when I was around 5 maybe? which is pretty good for that age. I think game developers put in some history/mythology and words you would not normally come across which in turn helps educate us. It's how they draw inspiration to...

Well if anyone is interested... there is a show 8/7central on the history channel about Icebreakers (the ships I initially began talking about in here). I guess non-americans don't get it though... unless you have satellite!

hahah, well i was always tried to get ships in there once you did get on the rivers (with land units) you could drift along them as if a road... that was nice. you could also build railroads into the sea for extra trade, but I don't think ships could ever use them. I really need to get my...

Does anyone remember the olden days of Civ 1 where you had the puddle/swamp tile? Why was that removed? Just because jungles performed the same and were more common and more difficult to remove? Swamps had some unique resources that I remember. Flood Plains kinda are similar to that, but not...

That's why I said could not Prevent Germany being split in two and more military governance. What I said wasn't very clear though. In the event of a civil war, there could be one nation led by an authoritarian government and one still controlled by the government but in unrest... not...

Or workers could build watchtowers, which intially gives only a space in the bronze age and then increases during imperial age with telescopes and again with radio and then made obsolete by satellites? This is the thing I really want to see implemented. Satellites should give a greater...

Of course there was Hitler who went out with suicide. After his death no German had the strength to prevent Germany to become East and West. Of course it was less of a civil war than a country being made a vassal or satellite state. More military governance... so I've negated my own point...

Please, we all know any government has faults, but keep relevant to the topic. And yeah, the emigration of your highly cultured citizens is exactly how I was thinking of it. And being able to see how converted your citizens is key, otherwise you just can't resist properly. The whole trade...

Should fog of war be permanent? Once you get modern tech like satellites and such, shouldn't we be able to penetrate the fog? At the very least a picture of terrain improvement should be included. Why do you think America was so fearful of Sputnik? And yeah, you can exploit the AI...

Actually, I believe this option, of trading a unit to another civilization, was included in Civ2. I think the unit had to be in your capital and non-fortified. There was one time I had given a marine over to some civ. It was only you who could give units, the AI couldn't offer it to you...

I'd agree, especially considering all hubbub, ruckus, hullabaloo, and brouhaha created by Bush's "spreading freedom" throughout the world. But then not even all you commies get along. The Russian Bear versus the Chinese Dragon. But yeah, Monarchies should be harmonious with each other and so on.

Yeah, that's not a bad idea. It gives something more of an objective to the game and encourages differing tactics (Instead of playing the same civ or same strategy). Also, it'd give a reason to play all the way through til the end. Of course, it may be impossible to have no contact, since...

well, I guess that makes sense markus, it does look a little stretched out, a curved cylinder really. A man can dream though, a man can dream...

Telvanni, I covered that, America is now settled by those of European descent because the people who really lived here, Native Americans, were reduced to maybe 5% of their former population. Anybody you see in America is pretty much going to be an immigrant (like I'm the third generation of...