Recent content by robvollman

I'm getting the following error whenever I launch Civilization V on my friend's Apple: "You cannot use this version of the application Civilization V with this version of Mac OS X" She has a Mac OS X Version 10.5.8. 2 GHz Intel Core 2, memory 1 GB 667 MHz DDR. I can run the game just...

It's fun, but South America and Africa are mostly empty. Africa: - Add the French Empire, especially Senegal, and Madagascar - Add the British Empire - Add the Belgian Congo, and Portugese Africa (Angola, Mozambique), though probably as city states South America: - Add Panama, either...

Never mind, I found it! I am an idiot. I needed to click on Earth under Map Type and choose the map, NOT go into advanced setup. Also, there's a little check box I had to check. Easy!

Either you missed something, or I'm an idiot. When I follow your instructions, and start game, I just wind up at 4000 BC, with my first little settler. I followed your instructions exactly - I know the MOD is enabled, I saw it under map type, and chose it, and hit start game and then...

Sorry guys, I didn't play this week-end, I had a date. With a girl and everything. (My readers say "Listen if you don't want to update it just say so, you don't have to make up crazy excuses.") Update coming soon. As soon as the ladies back up off me for a day. So in other words, very soon.

1. You have workers with nothing to do, and you don't want to delete them because you're researching railroad, and you detest units standing idle. 2. Build it on a resource hex into which an AI city is about to expand. Often they'll leave the fort rather than tear it down and build the...

Sorry guys, I haven't played since then. Didn't realise this thread had so many fans. I'll play this week-end!

I used to play this board game called Supremacy. I always tried to get nukes first, and then I'd hold the other players hostage. Every turn I'd offer to sell them the "Vollman No-Nuke Guarantee." It was expensive, but it kept my finger off the red button for a turn. Failing to purchase one...

I think that's what our mothers feel when we stop playing video games, go out, and meet a nice girl.

That would be me. I can come up with rude names for conquered cities and promoted military units no matter how many I have, even on Deity.

Exactly. The "worker bait" is only one version of the same core problem: the AI is easy to bait out of a great position. I'd love it if they could somehow program the AI to bait us - to suck a human player into a trap.

I'm near the end of my first German game. I choose civilizations randomly, but based on your inspirational stories, I was quite pleased that Germany came up. Seeing their unique abilities and units, I knew that a Domination Victory was in order. I was playing continents with scarce...

I played the Aztecs for the first time, and being a bit of a wargamer, it was really fun. You see, the Aztecs get culture for killing units. So I basically romped around from war to war, which is really the best part of Civ 5, on my way to a cultural victory. You need a small home base...

Yeah but that guy's a bit of an idiot.

It's harder to create a money city using trading posts until later in the game when trading posts are worth 2$ apiece. In the mean time, maybe you can build farms and this can be the city that produces your settlers. Once you're done with settlers, and once it reaches the size you want...