Recent content by sfnhltb

Sure input speed needs to be ridiculously fast at high level RTS play, and that isn't something I do well. But the limited amount of units in play reduces the complexity a lot, and the challenge stays very similar from game to game - there are only a few tactical options in reality. Compare...

The toughest, most demanding and skillful things I have done in any computer game would be in MMORPGs (large group raids, small groups or solo). But there is usually 200+ hours of easy grinding and item farming for each 5 minutes of pure adrenalin fueled madness. Plus the constant overhead of...

I probably got SE5 quite late on, because I don't remember encountering any bugs significant enough that I noticed them. The reason it barely makes the list is the AI is so easy to roll over, even on the higher levels. I have SE4 as well (part of some publisher pack on Steam), but I think I have...

I have Fantasy Empires installed on a fairly new quad core Vista box, you just might need DosBox (even on XP probably, to control the game speed, and in Vista for full screen DOS support). I have a note that you need to Ctrl-F10 to get the mouse to work in the game, but apart from that it was no...

Countries in civ are treated as one homogeneous unit. In reality pretty much every countries history there have been minor allies, personal unions, principalities, etc. - all of which have been known at times to change allegiances due to neighbouring countries military strengths or international...

The main reason most players go for Aesthetics to trade for Alphabet is because the AI goes for Alphabet early. So if you tech Alphabet you probably can't trade it much (any AI without it likely is behind the bulk of the AIs), where you can trade Aesthetics for Alphabet and then also trade it...

Late game huge maps, and before the AI is whittled down too much, I guess it can get up to around 10s, tested at 5s in my current game, but I have half the map already (conquest/time victory only). Quad core Q6600 oversped slightly to 3GHz w/128KB L1 and 8MB L2, FSB 1346MTs w/base frequency...

Their relative strengths make it seem more like a WWI Battleship and a WWII Destroyer (or maybe even later than that). Although the Destroyer comes earlier in the tech tree I think (at least the way I generally tech).

The main problem is that Civ is so state oriented, and with an MMO everything has to be reset every day or week (the big boss has to reappear, all the dead monsters and picked up treasure reappears on a regular basis), otherwise the game would rapidly empty out. So you couldn't easily have...

GG - if you are going to put it on offensive units, putting it on an old unit with XP is better than waiting for a new unit to put it on most of the time, as it gives you free upgrades and preserves XP over 10, also settling for +2XP is also a good option sometimes - especially in your HE city...

Generals that upgrade do not get the XP reset, they keep all XP earned. This is a good thing though, because when XP earned for a unit resets back to 10 (well, it is capped to 10 if it is over that amount), the amount needed for the next promotion increases. For example if you have 35/37 XP...

Charismatic has nice synergy alos for gaining promotions within your culture border faster! It is extra GG points, not extra XP, right?

Not really, pikes are good at spooking elephants, so they run to the opposite side of the ship and capsize it.

One I remember was a homework assignment to flip a coin 100 times and record the results of each flip (like HHTHTHTH...). The next week the teacher then assigned extra homework of doing it again properly to all the ones that had cheated and just written down what they thought would be a random...

Ive lost a battle ship against a crippled destroyer with 85% chance.. even though I have dry docks... and I can upgrade a lit of bit my ships... but the AI ships are stronger... Your ship was stronger, hence the 85% chance, and the dry docks/upgrades you have are already factored into the...