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AMD64 3800+ 2GB ecc ram Nvidia 6800GT (AGP) Nforce3 chipset, MSI board. audigy X-fi (only issue is sound card disappears sometimes when starting multiplayer game. MP games tend to crash at the start. (They load fine but i don't get the PLAY NOW button). Also runs fine on following...

IIRC, they collapse back to 9 in my games. I am using 1.21. Perhaps you have a side effect from a mod?

( I normally play on Regent difficulty level ) if there is a resource across the seas I wish to take without a massive, prolonged war: I make a settler and create a city on his territory. Preferred spot is a Hill with a luxury. If timed correctly, I can often declare peace on even...

My guess is because Hammurabi is a bipolar nut. He will be nice and polite for a few thousand years, building up strength and power. When he has a strong infrastructure and all he can build is units, he will expand his borders and spend some of his army. He is similar in this aspect to Joan...

I was playing a standard regent game as the French. I managed to almost own the main continent. There were two smaller continents with the persians owning 8 cities and the Chinese owning 11. I had never been to war with either the persians or the chinese (I focused on clearing my own continent)...

In patch 1.21 upgrading no longer wakes fortified units. Likewise, pressing 'J' for stack move does not wake fortified units.

if i was paid minimum wage for all the hours i must have spent terraforming hills into plains and viceversa in civ2, i may have a downpayment for a house. My friends who were big fans of Alpha Centauri miss terraforming in Civ3. I do not. At first I was wondering whether I needed a certain...

There was an old game, I am thinking around Civ1, Starcon 2, MOO, MOM. Sometime between 1989 and 1992. In this game you were the leader of a band of settler/nomads. You had an overhead map to move through, and had to worry about things like gathering food, and would run into situations...

Often one can sign a ROP and Military Alliance vs. a neighbor simultaneously. In my last game I received inspiration from Peregrino's Rogue State Strategy. I decided to remove those treacherous Germans from the face of the earth and after a few good bribes managed to bring a few strong civs...