Recent content by Snackwell

Promoted B17s are ridiculously good for taking cities. They have a bonus to begin with, and once you get the additional siege promotions they can knock a city down to 2 health in one turn from a distance, then when your infantry or tanks roll up they can't even hurt you much before you wipe 'em...

Great thread, caught everything I wanted to bring up that wasn't mentioned elsewhere: - military overview needs to let you click through to a unit - "r" can't be both "road" and "show resources" - save sorting by name only is awful One more detail on saving -- in Civ IV, you used to be able to...

Yep, sounds like my problem, too. Cranking the video settings way down helps for a while, but the bigger the world gets, the slower it goes, and eventually it crashes. I'm not even going to bother playing anything larger than standard, there's no point. Any word from Firaxis about this?

I should be way over min specs for this game: Phenom ll X4 2.8GHz 8GB DDR3 Win 7 Home SAPPHIRE 100284L Radeon HD 5750 1GB Right? But no. My first game I at least got up to the early Industrial before it started video crashing every couple of turns -- but at that point I had 10-15 real cities...

I'll agree with this - my one game so far was standard speed, at Cheiftan (? 1 below Noble), as Germany on a continent with Ghandi and Suleiman. Between the barbarian conversions and the ruin upgrades, I had a bigger army than I knew what to do with in no time. Wiped out both opponents (got a...

If you turn off *all* movies for performance, the intro movies get taken out as well... now that the game actually runs right, I can turn regular movies back on and turn intro movies off: perfect!

"Off shore platforms stink because it would generate open war fare to get rid of them to cripple the enemy." You never put a spy on a sub? They can sabotage those offshore wells w/o starting the war. (And clams/fish/crabs/whales while they're at it.)

It's been the same problems, from 1.00 to 1.09 to 1.52. More civs + more time = more problems. Dark terrain, weird texture mapping (leader heads on terrain...), eventually crashes to desktop. I am nowhere near minimum specs: GeForce 5700LE (128 m), 1 gig ram. Save game and dxdiag attached. I...

ArtiC has some good points -- dropping research to 10% for two or three turns will let you upgrade quite a few longbowmen in an emergency, but don't upgrade until you see an invasion force landing. Also notice that only Capac has D-pact w/two people -- so don't attack him first. Go nail the...

In the first 1.52 game I'm playing now, two of the AIs have had small stacks wandering around my territory (and others') for most of the game. Cyrus has a war elephant and two horse archers, and Frederick has ~5 units of elephant, archer, spearman etc -- and I'm building marines, fighters, tanks...

The feature change I suggested is a change in the way the game handles AI requests/demands. Especially early in the game when there are 10 or more civs, some with similar colors, it's hard to keep track of all the deals and relationships. When someone pops up and says "I demand you cancel your...

One of the things I'm enjoying most about this game is that you can play it differently every time. My current game, I've made a solid, religion-aided alliance with Cyrus, and together we hate Louis, Peter, and recently-deceased Mao. :lol: But, I decided not to start any more wars on them...

This is one of the reasons I like civs that start with hunting -- having a scout with 2 movement can really help you on that first big decision. Also it gives you a chance to grab more goodie huts, and if you pop a tech out of one of them, all the better.

The thing I keep wishing for is some context in these situations. Say Isabella comes to you and says, "Cancel your deals with Cyrus, or else!" and I want to stay on her good side. I can never remember which deals I have with Cyrus -- was he just open borders, or was he the one trading me gold...