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In the back of the manual are instructions for defective discs. Contact them and explain the problem. I spilled a cup of coffee on a floppy many years ago. The company replaced it for a small shipping and handling fee. Good luck.

Sorry, I think I started this off topic mess.... :smoke: At any rate, the AI (in PTW) does seem to make an effort to build up it's culture in cities with resources. A recent game had the AI build one city on my continent in tundra. At the time, there were more viable spots, so I was betting...

The annoying aspect of this is the fact that they know where future resources are, especially oil. If the AI settles near me on tundra, I fully expect to see an oil icon show up. As the AI knows this, they seem to beef up their military/culture to prevent flips... Out of curiousity, has...

Lt. 'Killer' M: Thanks for the quick reply. The strange thing was bypassing my cap with a defense 1 warrior for the new city with defense 3 merc... As we were the only 2 on the continent, there wouldn't have been anyone else to attack/extort. Perhaps a goodie hut or barb camp was nearby...

Playing PTW, latest patch, Monarch as the Carthiginians today I had what appeared to be England starting a war with me for the sole reason of burning my GA early in game. ??? Here's the set-up: Just as I complete my first settler (after 3 warriors, a temple and a granary) england contacts...

If you haven't already, play a couple of more turns. Your alliance with Japan has forced China to deal with them rather than you (the next turn China took 2 of Japan's cities just north of New Lagash). China now has to fight through Japanese territory to even get to you. The bad news might be...

At the bottom of the diplomacy screen there is an option to check active trades/treaties. It will show you the number of turns left on both. Hope this helps.

LOL and :P~ BTW, all three have released albums in the last couple of years... What's with the hippy killer tag?

My own music almost always or nothing. Wife doesn't yell, she's too busy playing EQ ;). Lately, I'm getting old :(, it's Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Dave Matthews.

I was under the impression that resources 'remembered' the base tile and would reappear even if changed? I believe I've seen coal (or rubber) appear on jungle that has been cleared...

Yes to Pirates, I enjoyed that one quite awhile also as well as the text based series from the zany guys at Infocom. I'm not sure I made it that far in Zork, but I banged my head quite a few times trying to figure out the puzzles in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The only one from the...

Masters Of Orion - early space 4x game.

How about a farm? Worker buildable, 3x3, sends food to one city via road, city must be within x radius and connected obviously. Might clean up some of the open areas while alleviating the problem with founding cities in low food producing areas. Just a thought...

Hmm, good question. I must be getting old also, I don't remember the year (whatever year it came out) nor the type of machine I played it on (probably an early IBM but possibly a C-64/128). I've played Civ I, II and now of course III, Colonization, MOO, and a host of other strategy games both...

I think the obsession with multi-player, for me at least, is the challenge of real opponents. As to the time frame, many of us have been playing turn based game by e-mail (and even snail mail) for years. The time frame is not daunting. Granted, with Civ, it would have been possible, in this day...