Recent content by Programmer Yare

The problem is that the game industry follows certain established (code) design patterns that are tried and true, guaranteed to run well, and be extensible and maintainable. Multithreaded code sucks to program and maintain and such, and there's not a whole lot of precedent or established...

I think there's a whole section of the in-game Civilopedia titled "Game Concepts"...

An actual, usable map editor external to the game would be nice. I had to write a tool to convert an image into a Civ4 map. That kind of thing just shouldn't be necessary.

Firaxis had to give the AI a leg up on the harder difficulties because their CPU budget for AI processing wasn't very big. People already complain about how poorly CIV4 runs on the average gaming computer -respectable AI would have to be running constantly in the background (slowing the game...

:undecide: Complaining about the random number generator is a sure sign of somebody who knows absolutely nothing about RNG's or computer programming. Without getting really techincal, there could be two reasons for what you experienced: 1) The human brain is designed to notice...