Recent content by Segal

If you won most your games in Civ4 by Domination or Conquest, you will probably love Civ5. Warfare wise, Civ5 is vastly improved over Civ4 though I do think the its somewhat easier. I routinely played Civ4 on King, but play Civ5 on Emporer. If you have techincal issues, I would suggest...

I miss the 'Regenerate Map' button and the scoring system in Civ4 seemed to make more sense. I played hundreds upon hundreds of Civ4 games simply to improve my high scores. Otherwise, I think the Civ5 is an improvement over Civ4.

Of the items you mention, I have only seen the Graphic Overlay issue and typically only once per game. Extremely minor item to me. I did have huge delays opening diplomatic windows for awhile but I switched from using DirectX 10 to DirectX 9 and all those problems went away. Techinically...

Is EU3 turn based? Seems all the builder/conquest games nowdays are real time

I think two simple changes would fix most the issues... (1) Only allow one interaction with a City-State per turn. (2) Get rid of the 'Blocked Peace' state and allow interaction at double or triple the normal price. Truthfully, I am fine with an Economic Victory similar to the cold war...

Shouldn't having a small civilization have some disadvantages? I think partially tying Research to population is a good mechanic for that. Large spawling empires certainly have a number of disadvantages. But I do admit by playstyle is completely expansion oriented. I think among 100s...

I would love to have the additional Civilizations but do not want to pay $5 each for them. I do not have any interest in the Scenerios. Were they $1.99 each or 7 for $15, I would do that.

I certainly think Civ 4 is the 4th best Civilization game; Its a good game, it just not a great game like the others. It plays too fast, and the feeling of different eras is gone. I guess playing a game of Civ in 2 hours was something that alot of people wanted, it wasnt something I...

Got it. Still determining whether I am going to keep it or go get my 50 bucks back.

Definately a huge step back from previous Civ games. Give me back my old 2D graphics that made it easy to view the game and understand what is going on. So far I havent been able to get my mind focused passed the terrible interface to determine if I like the game. Fortunately, running...

I believe bike is correct. If the defender is at 1 HP, the attacker will not retreat regardless of quality. Thus a 100% retreat-unit would have the following results: Win, Retreat, or Lose to a 1-hp defender.

Isn't Rush Building more beneficial than Upgrading, so shouldnt it cost more? Rush Building (assuming doing so with gold) gives you quite a few advantages. It frees up the city to produce something else and it gives you a new unit. Whereas upgrading converts an old unit to a new one. So...

I am terribly unimpressed with MOO3. I dont think they had a clue who their target market was, they certainly didnt get close.

I "Believe" you get the tech that has the lowest research cost. So if other civilizations have some of the first tier techs, that may make them the lowest cost.

I have to agree with the original poster. I have lurked here since Civ3 came out and this forum has never been THAT active. Since last Friday, I see 9 threads that have been posted on. That pretty dang slow for a major message board, my personal message board gets more hits than that. I...