Recent content by rsmithuf

Yes, I too am getting pirates in my game. I can't play as them, but they are still there. Also, I seem to have a bug with the new trade route system. I've created two custom trade routes - one for each product (cloth and cigars). I've assigned a galleon two BOTH, but it picks up only one of...

Gold not mined in any quantity in America? Are you serious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_in_California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_mining_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush

Ok, these maps are great! When they say "large" it is absolutely huge. I'm having a problem though during the WoI. The first wave of attacks come, and I kill them off, but after about 30 turns, still no second wave. This has never happened in the vanilla maps. I'm also running Dale's patch...

Be careful here. What happens if ALL of your colonies are captured, but you still have soldiers in the field? Do you lose automatically there? I would think the game would require at least 1 colony to still be under your control....

You can zoom out on the strategy layer and choose something like "Indian Demands" or trading.

I've played on Pioneer difficulty, won 2/3 times. The only loss was my first game ever. Planning on moving up the difficulty. Game is definitely winnable.

I don't think you can have autonomous trade routes for the Indians. There are two reasons why I don't think you want this: 1) They run out of gold quickly and its unknown yet if they get more (they have no economy!) 2) After a few supplies of their first wanted good, they will change their...

I've never seen this... how do you access those menus? Looks like you might have stumbled upon something glorious.... ;)

I agree that the trade route functionality needs major patching. I am somewhat AMAZED by the lack of depth in such a critical area, especially since Sid Meier has experience in this (ie Railroad Tycoon). 1) The trade route needs "Railroad Tycoon" style orders. You should be able to say: Pickup...

For your Dallas folks, the Gamestop in Northpark has it. Just picked it up for $29.99. They don't actually have them sitting out on the shelves, the guy had to go into the back of the store to get it out of this week's box of new stuff. So FYI for you guys, when you go to look, ask somebody...

I've gradually increased my difficulty level over the past few months - now to Monarch and always with technology trading turned off in the game settings (BtS). It seems at easier difficulty levels, I almost always had a technology advantage over the AI players, so I wanted to ensure that would...

Futurehermit, do you have a link handy for your capital location post?

1) (General) T/F - Cutting jungles using workers provide production hammers just like forest? (I think this is false) 2) (General) T/F - Having any more than 1 source of each resource is worthless except to trade? In detail, if I have 3 dyes, do I get +3:) in each city that has the required...