Recent content by Ominous

I've been coming around to Bismarck lately. I started to look closely at all the factors in choosing a civ and Mining + Hunting are the two best starting techs. You get a scout (which I've also come to appreciate!) and, well.. mining! I used him on my last Monarch game and it went quite well...

I really enjoyed moving from noble to prince. The jump wasn't too big and enjoyed the new AI level. I'm now in the midst of moving from Prince to Monarch and I'm finding it a bigger adjustment. With a good start and a more refined strategy, I won my first full monarch game (I tend not to...

I do not consider myself to be a Civ expert by any stretch, so all I can do is impart what *I* would do in this situation... and that is, let the captial get those. The capital expands pretty quick (especially with wonders) so I wouldn't bother putting another city too close given the overlap...

24 year old Male Ottawa, Canada

It really doesn't make any sense for Canada to be a Civ in this game. And I'm a Canadian. Now, modding a Canadian Civ is tons of fun. I made a Canadian Civ in Civ III and it was a whole lot of fun. Mounties as the UU to replace cavalry, a long list of leader from Pearon to Mike Meyers to...

I updated my graphic drivers (even though they weren't terrible out of date) and dumbed down my in-game graphic options as much as I could. There was a little improvement, but overall I'm just not impressive with the graphic fluidity of this game. It's choppy and feels like I'm playing an MMORPG...

I'm having this problem too. After a few turns when i've got 2 or 3 units on the screen, the game really slows down and is extremely frustrating to play. What I find odd is that I've got 2.8G processor, 768MB of ram and a Radeon 9200 graphic card. I don't know TONS about technical jargon...