Recent content by Osprey

Here's what I was having: Every second, on a clear cycle, the display would hitch for a split second. This affected the intro movie, the main menu and actual gameplay. It manifested itself in the intro movie by dropping a few frames every second and in the main menu by making the mouse...

Firaxis obviously wanted to add a whole lot more unique buildings and projects to the game. It would've been more logical to group ones like "The Kremlin" and "Oxford University" into a separate group named "Projects" or "Institutions" or something like that. I think that they kept the term...

I don't remember exactly, but it's fairly big. It's certainly not one of smaller maps. At the moment, somewhere on the globe, I can see at least 4 of every type of resource, except, of course, inland oil. Maybe the randomizer ended up giving me mostly offshore oil instead of inland; I don't...

Thanks, Soryn. I must be incredibly unlucky. I control almost half the globe and have no land-based oil reserves on any of it. There's also no oil on what I can see of AI territory. A two-pronged problem with ocean-based oil is that a) they're often too far out to sea to reach (unless you put a...

I see in the Civilopedia and in the manual that researching Combustion allows your workers to create Wells on the terrain as a way to get Oil. What does it take to be able to create them? I've researched Scientific Method, so I can see oil in ocean squares, and Combustion, which is required to...

Athlon XP 2500+ 1.5GB DDR333 Nvidia 6800GT, v81.85 drivers SB Audigy I run at 1600x1200 full detail (except for AA) and the game is as smooth as milk, usually ~45fps.

Complaining about the 3D or the view is the bad joke. You do realize that you can make the game look just like any of the previous three Civ games, right? If you want it like Civ1, zoom out to the last stop before the clouds become visible. It's then completely top-down and the fact that the...

I can confirm that the ancient music does play in-game, so the theory that they're named incorrectly doesn't hold water. There are times, however, when nothing seems to be playing. I'm guessing it's just a design decision to not play music end to end, perhaps for fear of it getting repetitive...