Recent content by Pyrkaige

This looks like a great start to adding some much needed functionality to the city screen. Using the version uploaded on October 25, there is a bug with the Currently Building display. As seen on the screenshot here, even when something is being built in a city, it always displays "Nothing being...

Some interesting posts on Qt3 from Jon Shafer about upcoming patches, and more. Patches (emphasis added): AI abilities: AI "cheating": More on AI cheating: So, it sounds like there's some nice bit of work is going on for the next couple of patches, to address some of the...

The real fun part is that this means you can have units that you can't upgrade. All the melee units upgrade to Rifleman, which upgrade to Infantry. So you can get to the point where you can build new Infantry... but you can't upgrade your old units at all. Not a very good tech tree setup, for sure.

Yeah, the random tech makes more sense from a game design standpoint, too. The idea being that if either side breaks the agreement before it's up, nobody benefits. If the research agreement was a flat bonus the entire time, it'd be almost a no-brainer as long as you had the extra gold. If the...

It definitely sounds like it will take work to successfully maintain a large, sprawling empire. As Jon Shafer put it:

It really all comes down to the gameplay. Would having health as another metric that a player has to watch for each of his cities, be compelling gameplay? Or would it be just another variable to keep in mind, but doesn't mean anything interesting in the broader game? Obviously, with Civ 5 the...

Since when does every piece of information have to be presented by a company on their website about a game, before it's released? Very few big games are presented that way. Official websites generally have basic pre-release info about how the game works and some of it's special features, not...

Another preview is out, from Worthplaying this time. It mainly provides known info, but this part looked new: It also includes 7 pictures, including a few from the cut-scenes.

IGN published an interview today with Sid Meier, talking about Civ IV and his involvement in it. There isn't any new gameplay info given, but it's always good to read what he has to say. IGN Interview

A few improvements for the user interface: 1) This would work well in the Trade Advisor screen (F2), and would give that dour advisor a bit more use. The Can Trade With list could be expanded and under each civ it would show tradeable technologies that the civ has, which you don't. Even if it...

No, the corruption issue was not dealt with in the 1.02 patch. That patch only deals with text and art issues, and not any gameplay changes/fixes.

This isn't really related to the heart of your issue, but the reason that the Civil Engineer's (CE) bonus shields aren't listed in this particular instance is that the CE doesn't give bonuses when building units. Try switching to a city improvement or a wonder; it should give a bonus for that.

There's an easy way to flip this around: if the expansion had taken 6 months longer and had a suggested retail price of $45 instead of $30, how many people would be on here complaining about the price of an expansion being as much as a full game? Quite a few, I'd imagine -- even more than the...

The latest version of the plain Civ3 executable is probably patched when installing Conquests, but either way it doesn't matter. Install Civ3 and then Conquests on top of it; you'll have access to both the latest version of Play the World as well as Conquests. I doubt you'll ever want to play...

Almost all the Conquests that start with predetermined cities have a similar problem, although that particular one is by far the worse. You can get far more (techs or anything else) on the first turn of the game than on the second, because the AI hasn't had time to properly value everything...