Recent content by Timos

I'm afraid to inform that Colonization has got DRM with Securom. I pre-ordered it and installed it this morning. By this afternoon it wouldn't work. The Securom twaddle decided it wasn't a legit copy and booted me out! I can't be bothered with all the hassle with fixing this - (I'm the...

I forgot to ask, so how to you remove the paul.dll file then???

This is utter crap. If I can't fix this tonight I'm going to send the game back and get a refund. What a load of rubbish!

Hi, The focus of this thread was originally about having a capital with tons of super specialists and hogging as many wonders as possible, building them all in the capital (with the exception of Gt. Artist specialist-generating wonders in another city, so as not to pollute your capital)...

SJN: I normally play for domination and certainly don't normally play very defensively. I just had to with Augustus as I didn't want to spend too much time fighting early on as getting all the early wonders is crucial. But with Augustus who has 100% GL bonus, rivals actually do you a...

Hi, I have been looking to get out of my addiction to using Huyana Capac with a CE all the time. I thought that other industrial early rush leaders like Rameses and Augustus woud be good transitions. So I was looking on the Forums for some strategies of how to play these guys. As I am...

So does anybody know why it's so difficult to see the grid when you zoom out on BTS? It so much worse than in Vanilla that it is unuseable and seems like a bug.

I have got BTS. I just think that the espionage is better with the expansion pack. Whenever I tried to use spies in Civ previously, it was never successful; the cost was too high and the missions were rarely successful.

I agree with this idea completely! The more ways you can be aggressive whilst still being "at peace" the better. It's the same as spies (until they're caught, that is).

This is one of the most powerful changes I have noticed with BTS so far. You can you have a highly protective military capacity that will only fight if provoked, but you can still cause mayhem with rival civs. In the last game I played I had about 15 spies rotating between my capital city and...

I'll try building one on a jungle/forest. I assumed that the fort clears what is already there. If this isn't the case, can you build a fort on top of a hill and also have a mine/windmill there? I am assuming not.

I think the philosphical/industrious trait should be the Scottish Robert the Bruce :king: or William Wallace UB: Kirk (Scottish church), could be 1/2 price temples or temples with small extra culture bonus UU: Highland warrior (warrior) with a hill bonus or something. I think that...

Wow, that's bit like the colony/camp setting I seem to remember a previous version of Civ having. That makes them much more useful. What would be really usefull would be something similar for water tiles for those bloomin' whales that are always miles away and in icy regions! BTW: What does...

Reading this thread makes me realise that there is quite a strage anomally to my playing in that I will always settle at 4000BC and hope for the best, but after that I completely ignore the blue circles as they're crap. I think that if I didn't settle immediatley I would spend too long...

Forts have become useful in bts for the two reasons above; as an airbase and as a canal. This means that they are likely to be slightly more useful than before, especially for bottlenecks. What I find a bit silly still is the fact that the defensive bonsus for a fort is 25%, whilst the same...