Recent content by Rabid

Is there an option to keep all the civ-aid-messages for inventions, city-building-suggestions,... cause they seem to be disabled, I know most of the time they are boring and irritating but they're pretty usefull in the late game when your civ is huge.

On the contrary, I think the battle system of Civ IV is great! It holds everything in account, the current and max strength, type of soldiers,... A spearman getting a +100% vs Mounted Units is simply utter realism ;). Thats not a silly situation at all, 1 in five of your units will still...

Philosophical and Spiritual leaded me directly to the plan of a Cultural Victory (my first ever). On this moment I'm still on that same course. I founded Mecca on the plain hills to the east of the startposition, researched polytheism and founded my first religion. Then started building...

Username: Rabid Chatname: Rabid Residing: Mandate: none Former Mandate: none Aspiring: Chief Scientist Age: 21 Gender: M Location: Antwerp, Belgium City Name: Lost Heaven

Greek AI-forces are about to cross the river (and got completely slaughtered)

Fast explenation of genetic programming: With a genetic algorithm, you don't have to program the AI. You need to program a random-AI-generator. The only problem is that the complexity will go through the roof (most of the time such algorithms are used to <a...

Same here, I'm not interested in modding the game, but I surely am interested in upgrading the AI. I read some different opinions about upgrading it throughout the forum, but they were all talking about setting different modes. Wouldn't it be possible to create a genetic algorithm for Civ IV?

The SDK is out, are there still people who want to start working on the AI?