Civ4 Temporary Leave Announcement Thread

I am in a intensive workperiod... sorry for all the delays.

I will be trying to drop out of same games in order to minimize my delay.

EDIT: played most of games but still a couple running behind.
 
I am tottally sinking in work. I would like to say when I am getting out of it but the extra work seems to drag on... will try to catch up some of my games this weekend, but taking long time to play could be a rule for me for the immediate future...

Suggestions for temporary or permanent replacement (depending on the games) are welcome.
 
I will be getting a new much more powerful computer today... desktop instead of a laptop, and I don't know if I'll be able to download civ on it. If that is the case I'll be buying my own laptop... but either way, there will be delays for me as I will need to re-install the game and all its patches and re-download all the mods... I've caught myself up to this point to hopefully keep any delays to a minimum. Cross your fingers that I can download the game again onto the desktop, because it will look so gorgeous and beautiful if I can!
 
Nighthawk419 said:
I will be getting a new much more powerful computer today... desktop instead of a laptop, and I don't know if I'll be able to download civ on it. If that is the case I'll be buying my own laptop... but either way, there will be delays for me as I will need to re-install the game and all its patches and re-download all the mods... I've caught myself up to this point to hopefully keep any delays to a minimum. Cross your fingers that I can download the game again onto the desktop, because it will look so gorgeous and beautiful if I can!
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Huh? Whatever happened to your old laptop? I don't know about your Internet connection, but personally I'd just copy all the mods over rather than download them yet again. Also what computer did you buy? If it's more than 500$ you might as well build it yourself with custom ordered parts, most of the pre-built alleged gaming PCs have one or two decent quality components which they use as selling points to tech illiterate people (OMG LOOK AT THAT HIGH GHZ NUMBER THIS MUST BE A GOOD COMPUTER!!!111) while using cheap inferior components for everything else. And sweet dear merciful God please don't tell me you bought a Mac!
 
Nighthawk419 said:
I will be getting a new much more powerful computer today... desktop instead of a laptop, and I don't know if I'll be able to download civ on it. If that is the case I'll be buying my own laptop... but either way, there will be delays for me as I will need to re-install the game and all its patches and re-download all the mods... I've caught myself up to this point to hopefully keep any delays to a minimum. Cross your fingers that I can download the game again onto the desktop, because it will look so gorgeous and beautiful if I can!
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Read my thread on how to install Civ 4 on Windows 7, as it still worked for Windows 10.
 
*sigh*... you people forget that I get the luxury of playing civ during my work hours within corporate America. The laptops (old and new) and now the desktop are all supplied by my company, which means I get what I get. I don't just have the option of copying mods over, because IT takes my old computer as its installing the new one and there is no way to connect the two. I didn't spend a dime, but my company spent thousands to give me a computer with enough processing power to handle a new program we will be using... needless to say there is more than enough processing/graphics to run a game from 2005 (and its more recent mods).

And in good news so far, I've managed to get civ installed (I still have the original downloaded install files from when I bought it on Amazon in 2011, pre-Steam, good job me!) and the 3.19 patch and at least one mod downloaded. I will be attempting the rest as turns come to me over the next couple weeks. Anything with source forge seems to work fine, IT hasn't blocked that site (yet)... but a lot of the other downloading sites are blocked. Wish me luck!
 
Nighthawk419 said:
*sigh*... you people forget that I get the luxury of playing civ during my work hours within corporate America. The laptops (old and new) and now the desktop are all supplied by my company, which means I get what I get. I don't just have the option of copying mods over, because IT takes my old computer as its installing the new one and there is no way to connect the two. I didn't spend a dime, but my company spent thousands to give me a computer with enough processing power to handle a new program we will be using... needless to say there is more than enough processing/graphics to run a game from 2005 (and its more recent mods).

And in good news so far, I've managed to get civ installed (I still have the original downloaded install files from when I bought it on Amazon in 2011, pre-Steam, good job me!) and the 3.19 patch and at least one mod downloaded. I will be attempting the rest as turns come to me over the next couple weeks. Anything with source forge seems to work fine, IT hasn't blocked that site (yet)... but a lot of the other downloading sites are blocked. Wish me luck!
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I suggest a flash/thumb drive to keep your mods on, I now have a 2TB hard drive for that reason and actually many of my games are install directly to it (if I knew how I'd copy the Registery lines so that would work on multiple machines :-)
 
Good call Eclipse, but of course these days in corporate america, all computers are made to not accept thumb drives for fear of employees stealing corporate secrets. Corporate espionage and all that! Pain in my behind!
 
This corporate America sounds more and more like the Soviet Union. Seriously, just replace "company" with "party", "IT" with "the state".
 
The move to locking down IT equipment is very understandable. Just ask Target, Home Depot, Anthum, Equifax to name a few.
 
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