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My PC plays a huge world fine with graphics settings turned down to the minimum, and it's a 2.8GHz Duron with the least powerful graphics card that can run CIV. Certainly not even close to state of the art when CIV came out. Late turns can take a while to process, but it's about the same as AC...

Optimise what though? You can do as much micromanagement as you want in CIV, it's more that it's less required in most cases. Especially if you use Blake's AI improvements to the city governers. If you're saying the game's main appeal is to bean-counters, then that's not the most ringing of...

That's nice; but you're wrong and it's not hard to prove either :)

It does seem like a lot of the complaints from CIII players are from people who've played a couple of games, got annoyed that they couldn't just city spam their way to victory, and then given up.

Bronze Working enables forest chopping :) Click "Play game", then select world size, climate etc in the screens that follow it. Or you could adjust them all on one screen by choosing Custom Game instead. You can't start the game without seeing these options...:confused:

That's not very nice and arrogant to boot. I've been playing Civ since the first one came out on my Atari ST - my first ever hardware upgrade was an additional 512K of memory just to run it. And in my opinion CIII is the worst title in the series by far. Every other Civ title (and SMAC)...

Perhaps you should've razed one or two of them for the cash rather than trying to keep all three? Historically I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that doubling the number of cities in your empire in a single year will overstretch your resources.

Sounds likely to me. A "mini-UN" per religion would be realistic and add some nice diplomatic fun to the middle game.

My PC that's 4 years old with a cheapy GeForce graphics card plays CIV fine, apart from the increased time it takes at the end of the turn for the AI to do the other civs' moves. Nowadays you couldn't find a machine that wouldn't run CIV in the shops - although at the very bottom end you'd...

The CIV graphics are excellent IMO, finally we're back to a square grid view rather than the isometic views of 2 and 3. And I totally agree that all the different terrains fit together very nicely, the maps definitely look smooth. I'm not really that bothered if it went more serious though...

Aren't you contradicting yourself? If you've only played CIV for 3 weeks, then you can't really state that it "does not stand the test of time" surely? Personally I hated CIII, CIV has bought back that feeling of excitement to the series.

As long as we don't have expiring resources a la Civ III I'm happy... that was one of my main bugbears with the game.

I'm a turtler and haven't had any problems with Blake's AI mod, although I've not played any of the updates past a month or so ago. Sure it's definitely more competitive on Noble and you can't just rely on getting into the lead and coasting, but that's no bad thing. Founding religions seems to...

One issue - do we really need a popup every time for the "you have leaked technology through trade routes" ? I mean, maybe the first time it happens, but for such a minor part of the mod it seems to be pretty priviliged in getting a popup every 10 turns or so...

Maybe that's because everyone's too busy enjoying the game to bother posting on forums :D