Game won't show my own troop movements!?!

[JeffNebraska]

My game is not showing me my own troops' movements. I have the "show friendly moves" toggled to on, so I can't figure out what other setting could possibly affect this.

Anyone else having this problem or have any thoughts?

 

[JeffNebraska]

No replies at all?

Is it that I'm missing something obvious or that no one else is experiencing this or that no one else considers this a problem???

 

[MagnumPI]

it probably just skipping, similar thing happens to me... graphics card can't handle it i guess

 

[insydr]

No it's not because of your graphics card. The same thing is happening to me, automated moves are not centered upon like they were in Civ3. Maybe a patch will address this, or at least have an toggle option to show automated movements?

 

[Verastro]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having this problem. When it didn't show up in the forums, I thought maybe I had something set wrong...

 

[Knight451]

Just thought that I would add that this is also a problem for me. I've resorted to moving my units the max for a turn at a time. They need to fix this in a patch.

 

[JamesKilton]

I was wondering about that. Yeah I don't get to see my own unit moves either. This is definitely a bug in the game.

 

[insydr]

Actually I think this was done on purpose, to streamline gameplay. If you happen to see the automoves taking place, you'll notice that they can happen simulatenously. This is a good thing for workers running about, but kind of sucks if you want to see what that auto-explore unit is finding or if you want to track the progress of a unit moving a large distance.

So, it would be cool if there was an option to focus on auto-movements for non-worker units, for instance. Chalk it up as another patch suggestion.

 

[JeffNebraska]

Thanks to all for the confirmation that I'm not crazy.

I think this is a significant issue that should be addressed in a patch soon. It's especially annoying once the map gets large and you have units doing their thing who are way too far apart to track them all. I understand the point about streamlining, but this should definitely be an option.

 

[JeffNebraska]

As a side note, I too bought a new computer for CIV 4. I was on a P3, 866mhz with a 32MB Geforce3 TI200. I knew that would not be up to the task.

I got a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a 2ghz Pentium M and a Geforce Go 6800 256 MB. The game sails on the new machine at high detail and 1920X1200 resolution.

It is a thing of unmitigated beauty.