Recent content by RuddagerRustin

I may have had a similar error before. Could you explain in more detail? Post a screen shot? Honestly, though, I never resolved my problem before I bought BtS. When I played vanilla or warlords on my laptop, the terrain would randomly become ultra contrasted (not completely black, though) and...

:lol: ME TOO!

Coffee and/or tea. +1 and +1 in your cities. Coca plant. +1 and -1 for cities until Chemistry, then +5 -5

Never use Police State or Environmentalism. My favorites are Representation, Free Market for economics and Slavery, which is amazingly useful until sometime around 1000ad, then I might switch to Caste System.

Well, what if barbarians in modern times could build spy units? After the middle ages you don't see barbs too often, but maybe they could randomly spawn off hill tiles at the edges of your cultural boarders (or not, whatever). They'd act just like player built spies except that they'd only...

100% agree. At this point, I never even use Police State. This would make it an actually useful civic.

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW, model TS-L532U. My desktop has... I don't know, something generic and 'regular' or whatever. Not a burner. The weird thing is that I'm only getting this with BTS; I installed vanilla and warlords with the same drive and setup without a problem. I assume it's essentially the...

It's Home Edition, SP2 and everything. I didn't have this issue with Vanilla or Warlords either, just this laptop, and on my desktop it worked the first time I installed it.

I have exactly this problem. Running a Gateway laptop with XP. I tried reinstalling with just Vanilla and BTS and still no go. Need to play soooonnnnn...

Alright, here's the deal. I can install the game fine-- install shield ate it when trying to autodownload the patch for Vanilla and Warlords but I just did it manually-- but once I run it, it's a no go. The loading screen comes up for about a minute before closing and the error report box takes...