Recent content by praktik

hahah! my download of all of MST3K just finished yesterday

This. Having worked customer service from many angles over the years for a company whose core business was reliant on set top boxes and software in such boxes, I can attest that this gentleman knows what he's talking about, and that 2k is in a catch-22. Don't listen to the whiners. We'd all...

seems to be fixed! looked in some other threads and saw that people with similar symptoms had overly dusty fans. I clean my CPU fan regularly but checkin the GPU fan slipped my mind. THere was a band of dust that Im sure was restricting airflow greatly. REmoved it - and now things...

Ya dude, I'm having the occasional lockup too. Things 'll play fine, from a little bit to a good little while, then everything just goes frozen, and I have to manually restart. I just reformatted in large part because of this hindrance to my enjoyment of the game. Started a new game a...

Ya I totally missed doing that - think I ended up deciding on my Wall street city a little after I had built my HD in the capital - kicking myself because its a pretty damned sick Wall Street city as it is and having +70 or so gold x the extra 100% would have made it even sicker... When I get...

Oh well maybe it isn't worth it then - I was hoping I'd get extra production from branches, or maybe another Great engineer - but giving production to my enemies probably isn't worth 10 extra gold... been doing ok budget wise at around +200 or so gpt a turn...

I've searched the forum and read the corporation threads and I have a dilemma with Mining Inc. that I'm hoping my fellow board members will be able to assist me with. On the weekend I wanted a "sandbox" kind of game so I went down to Prince and played as Bismark of the Germans, the goal being...

My vassal, Elizabeth, has the shrine...

So - playing Darius of Holy Rome on a Pangaea map now... things are going swimmingly... comfortably ahead, big empire, cities are coming online with some decent production and populations... Bismark, fellow buddhist, declares war. Now I can hold em off, and there's enough happiness in my...

This event is amazing. It happened to me once and it really helped me cause I was just coming to the end of a logn "building" time, where my cities were getting courthouses/barracks and wonders - and not building armies. The Golden Age helped me withstand the attack, and I ended up taking...

Catherine! She is ALWAYS a pain in the ass. The one time I got along with her great - awesome tech trades, defensive pact, high positives in the ratings - she declared on me just as I had moved all my assets to the opposite corner of my empire to start a war on a weaker race. She always...

Well I really didn't mind the music, but I was puttin so many hours on the regular that eventually it grew stale. Now I have a few "civ playlists" I queue up in winamp, keep the game noises low and put game music down to zero. So I'm not sure what people's musical tastes here are like, but...

I had the best capital going in a game as Lincoln of the Ottomans on Friday night. I had: 4 x settled GE 3 x settled GSci 2 x settled GP 2 x Settled GSpy Man, the research I was getting out of those specialists was sick! And the + 19 hammers from the scientists, prophets and...

"List of Things to Do in Civ IV [so that the game doesn't go stale]" Wait a minute - this game gets stale?? lol

I don't think I play my games long enough (I usually get the urge to start over with a new technique once infantry hits) but are you getting 1 unit per turn any time before railroad - or you running state property? In the early/middle ages with mines and settled specialists I can usually only...