Recent content by PennHead

It seems to me that every Civ game has bogged down a bit in the modern ages; that's not exclusive to Civ IV. I believe that has more to do with how much is going on than whether the graphics are 2D or 3D. That's not to say that the 3D graphics haven't brought some new difficulties for some...

Setting aside all discussion of selective memories, pointing out 95% means you lose 1/20, etc, if there have been losses at 100% as a few have reported, that means there is a problem with the odds. 100% means 100%. I'd imagine that it's just really close to 100% and being rounded up, but...

Sorry to hear you've been having problems with Warlords. I do strongly recommend you rethink your position on driver updates. The fact that vanilla works with your current drivers is no guarantee that Warlords should too. I have no way of knowing for sure, but it is entirely possible that...

How kind of you to make the point for me. As you say, the odds of 5 in a row is 1/32. The odds of 6 is 1/64. That means, that half the time that you get 5, you will go on to get 6(1/32*1/2=1/64). Half the time, you won't. This directly contradicts your assertion that after getting 5...

What you say above is correct. However, it's not your original argument. Just to remind you again, your original argument: Nowhere in here are you talking about 6 straight vs 5H1T in any sequence. You tell us to flip and record only what the sixth flip is after 5 in a row. You then...

I'm a religous guy who sees no conflict with science, but I suppose that's rare. The objective observer can find instances in history where religion has both stifled science, and has encouraged and fostered advancement. The science bonus of Free Religion in CIV reflects to me the free exchange...

Now you're just trying to save face. Regardless of how much money it is, you said you'd bet everything you have on a single flip of the coin, and would surely win because of past results. You spent pages arguing that the next flip is not independant of the previous ones. That's what most of...

Let me see if I can explain why this is wrong. For simplicity's sake, lets just consider two coin flips. The odds of getting heads twice in a row is indeed 25%. The reason for that is that there are four possible outcomes: heads/heads, heads/tails, tails/heads, and tails/tails. It is...

I'm going to agree and disagree with you here. You are correct that the big companies get pirated more. I was guilty of oversimplifying by assigning the same % of games pirated to the two. The "little guy's" games do have less risk of being pirated on day 1. However, it DOES happen to...

Perhaps I'm a few pages late, but I had to say something on the whole issue of piracy hurting the small company more. Consider this hypothetical: On the one hand, you have John Madden's Football. It sells millions upon millions of copies a year. On the other, you have an innovative...

Chalk me up as another for whom this worked. Previously, I could play with little issue on Normal sized maps, but it became unplayable late in the game on Huge ones. I'm running an FX5600 256MB. After reverting to the 71.89 drivers, I loaded the huge game that used to crash 2-3 times a...

Yep, it's a bug. Patch 1.09 is supposed to fix it. If you don't have it, get it. If you do have it and are still seeing this, then it's not as fixed as we believe ;)

I wasn't going to wade into this, but I feel compelled to give my opinions and observations from my point of view as a gamer, and a game developer. First, just to get it out of the way, I'm one of those who runs Civ4 without issue now. I had a minor problem after install which I recognized...

I knew I'd gone soft when I went to war to aid an ally, captured one of his lost cities and gave it back to him.

Actually, I was under the impression that the UN can't be built with diplomatic victory turned off. If that is indeed the case, it would prevent civics from being forced on the poster in future games.