Recent content by Sedai

Hmmm. Just played two OCC games this week, both on noble. First game, I won rather easily, cranking great prophets early. I did war with 2 diff civs at two diff times, but mostly used spys while defending my boarders with stacks of troops. I had accrued a ton of cash, so the sabotage took out...

Don't mean to hijack the thread here, but I am just curious as to how long a game like this takes. Do these games last years, with a single turn (for all players) taking more than a week to complete? What are the advantages to playing like this? Do you folks also play marathon session in other...

Awesome. I will try it this weekend, if I ever get out of work. :-/ Thanks for the reply.

Another way to do this is to add the command -port 2056 in the path of the program shortcut on your desktop. This will assign a specific port to each machine. Then check the local LAN IPs of each machine, and forward the correct port to the correct IP on your router. Obviously, you change the...

I can start and run LAN games just fine, but my friend and I want to connect with a third person who lives miles away. This, we cannot achieve... I am starting to get the feeling LAN players can't participate in online games... which is odd, as we do it with many other titles...

This is an odd issue I haven't run into with other multiplayer games. I have a LAN at my place, and another friend and Civ addict in a nearby town likes to play games with us as well. When a friend is over on the LAn and we attempt to connect to either GS or a Direct IP host, only one of the...

Thanks I'll give that try :)

I have been showing a friend how to play, he bought the game, and during multi games we would like to pause and talk about strategy etc but the turns just keep clicking by, how can we pause the game? I can't seem to find the command in the manual (which is terrible) _S

So Free Will is a bad thing? Gang buddies? Wow, I have never seen a more stereotypical, foolish statement in my life. I am surprised you can figure out how to turn on your computer. So uh, how is facism working out for you?

Ok I have been reading the site and trying different ideas, and I wanted to go for a 20k city culture win. I set about this task and start up a game on Warlord Difficulty (this game is hard, folks) and choose the egyptians as I like Industry and I figured religion would help with some of the...

Our hotseat games take like 10 hours, I can only imagine PBEM.... A bit to much of a time commitment for me methinks.

My friend and I just started playing hotseat games recently, as he can't get enough time on the comp at his place for a civ game. I have been player one with him at 2 and the rest of the civs following. What is happening now that we are in a conflict is that when he finishes his turn, Enemy...

Funny, I don;t think I have ever reloaded a game of Civ3, and I am confused as to why you would. I guess I see Civ as a realistic game, and if something bad happens I deal with it, If it gets to the point that you have lost unless you reload, I think you have lost it's time to start the next Civ...

To be honest, I liked Civ 2 and played it somewhat, but the diplomacy seemed completely unintelligable to be. I could never make heads or tails of what the diplomacy engine was up to. Civ 3 diplomacy seems to have some rhyme and reason to it. The last sentence was brought to you by cliche'

Standard map size, as on the smaller maps the expansionist civs have a brutal start during land-grab time, and I can't seem to get enough land fast enough, even though I get the settler machine city going quickly, using the strats for the settler city found in the article called Babylon Settlers...