Recent content by The_Big_Con

I'd like to play some Civ 4 outside of the "real" world. You know, the world that has the Japanese and Mt. Rushmore. I've never played a mod before; be gentle. Has anybody done a good fantasy mod where instead of developing steam power and radio, you develop griffon domestication and crystal...

I've seen other sources that identify Chinese or Egyptian hieroglyphs as pictographic alphabets and Greek, Arabic, or the Latin alphabet (the one used by English speakers) as phonetic alphabets. Maybe this is using the word "alphabet" overly loosely. Without getting into a semantic...

It seems to me that your problem would be solved if you changed the name of "Anti-tank" to "Bazookaman" or "Grenade Launcher" or "RPG". Any of those terms wouldn't imply that it was invented purely to counter tanks.

Even with animations frozen and graphics at Low, same problem. Would a better video card solve my problem?

I'm pretty sure my XP is fully updated -- do I go to the Firaxis site to get Civ's drivers & updates?

I used to have Vista -- it hated Civ 4 in a very similar way. I killed Vista off my computer for several reasons, including what i thought was its hatred of Civ 4, only to find out that on Windows XP -- which is what I'm using now -- the situation has not improved. Here's what happens. When I...

My understanding is the modern IRA is political but certainly during the 1980s they did some activities that could have been described as terroristic. Didn't they use to stick bombs in public mailboxes? In my view, a guerilla attacks armed opposition soldiers. a terrorist attacks the...

Just purged Vista off my computer and got set up with Windows XP. Everything is working fine except when I went to install Civ 4 I got a Circular Redundancy Error (it was less than halfway installed). I have gotten this error more than once. Anybody know what could be causing this sort of problem?

I admit it. I was being an ass. I was really in the mood to antagonize someone yesterday. "Sweets" and "Sugar" were stuck in to antagonize, also. (On a cultural note, Southerners do say a lot of sugar and honey and darling but nobody gets off on it.) I'm not a terrribly ethnocentric American...

Great slag, sweets. No substance, but cute use of my words. I'm not a jingoist, but I think that people who aren't ethnocentric Americans (the word is ethnocentric, sugar. Egocentric would be saying that I, The Big Con, am one of history's great civilizations) would still have to acknowledge...

Irish-dojo, you have a very inflated view of Ireland's significance in world events. Not only did Ireland fall 'completely under British control' for CENTURIES, but in fact, Ireland has been Britain's longest-held subject state. By which I mean, England controlled Ireland LONGER than they...

The closest American accent to colonial England is American Southern, actually. We still say reckon, yonder, and britches (breeches), just like Shakespeare did! Yet somehow people think of our accent as being one of the least intelligent in the US. I'm 100% against Ireland as a Civ. Ireland...

Well, hammurabi's code does mandate the death penalty for most offenses. That's kind of aggressive.

I have a different take on resource lameness. I ask myself "Is this resource really significant enough to have a game effect?" I know this has been mentioned elsewhere, but the potato isn't in this game, and that's a food resource with a major historical impact. And then I see crabs ... and I...

Sorry to quarrel, but that seems like a decent, not fantastic, unique unit. I mean, it performs all of a Knight's functions, just a tiny bit better than the knight (ie, it dies 15% less frequently on attacks). When you compare it to units like the Dog Soldier that is in some ways better than the...