Recent content by Robovski

They have good strategic value due to the move rate. It's great to have a fast travel corridor from your production to the front.

QFT - I'm walking away.

If fortune fails to smile upon my scout and I end up with a fully explored map and a scout, the scout is still useful through it's sight range (helping you place your units) and it's movement capabilities (making a nice raider for workers). But this is after a long period of useful exploration...

I have run the demo on a 4mhz Pentium 4 w/ a 7600GT and 3GB ram running XP home SP 3 32bit. It doesn't look anywhere as nice as on my main machine an i5 540 w/ 4gb ram and HD 5770 running Win7 Pro 64bit - that does high everything no problem.

You've got one of them new-fangled hearing whatchmabobs? I still have my ear trumpet - it's a 100% fidelity lossless technology.

Beats me. It'd be nice if I could use my pre-download for the demo but I'm pretty sure that isn't happening. Probably a button to download the demo will show on teh product screen once the time comes.

Geez, I would have been playing it on my C64 if it would have run, I was still playing Pools of Radiance on it. It was a rougher time - we do well with our gripes about digital distribution nowadays. At least I'm not wasting 30 minutes loading a tape only to find something didn't load right or...

Interesting point from the manual, their range is 5 hexes from a friendly hex, not the city they are in. I'm interested in seeing how that actually plays out.

I reckon harder on the basis of the city states - more players in world politics = more trouble. Sure they aren't major threats and they aren't "playing to win" but the intrigues comming from them should be war-inducing.

I'm always peeved by inaccurate subtitles. I suppose it comes from my wife losing her hearing.

And/or fell into the sea.

Honestly, look at the shelf-space for PC games. Time was that was an aisle of a store. Now in a game shop you are lucky if it's more than 1 bookcase of shelves. Digital and internet distribution (on-line shops like Amazon) are the future for but the most major releases.

Now how in the world did I ever forget Ghandi! He's been the worst warmonger AI to be stuck next to since back in Civ 1. "I am Ghandi, my words are backed by nuclear weapons..." Perhaps I shouls say prominent individuals from a major 20th Century conflict? Some kind of global fracas?

Personally I think Churchill would be more deserving than Victoria (but way less appealing to have in my Diplo screen), but we seem to be avoiding individuals from the 20th century.

It should just be a global release. But then the same should be said for movies...