Long time lurker, First time poster here so gimme a break.
My cities get attacked by invisible soldiers for starters, and they allways smash my cities no matter the defense and the attacker.
When units fight the screen changes to an extreme close up of the surrounding terrain and only returns to the normal view after the engagement.
My cities have been attacked by units on the entire other side of the globe, the units appear on one side of the globe and the "Float" half way around the world and attack my cities, this means that units anywhere in the world can instantly cross ocean mountain and endless terrain to attack my cities. Very disturbing especially when archers on the other side of the globe smash your dozen or so fully fortified mechanized infantry and destroy your city.
finally last night one of my workers just started floating off the side of the map. I pushed my map cursor and followed the unit to the right to see where it was going and it kept floating away, eventually it completely cirumnavigated the globe!! then the game froze and completely locked up my computer. No ctrl-alt-del worked, not even computer restart. eventually I unplugged the machine from the powerboard.
Please understand my situation when I say this next statement. I'm an Australian living in Fiji. the opportunity for me to get a new game comes about once a year! I have a top of the line Raedeon video card. In Fiji internet access costs $5 per hour!! that's ontop of the home connection rate and you have to pay a minimum of $500 a month for internet for a whopping 100 MB per month dowload cap!!! So downloading patches is not a viable option for me. It just aint gonna happen for me.
My statement is this, I played the other CIV games religiously, I usually played for upto 8 hours a day at least. Even up till the day before I got CIV IV.
I've logged about 50 hours so far on the new game but last night I took the game out of my DVD drive and threw it against the wall. took the pieces and smashed them again. Firaxis has forever lost my business for this atrocity.
My cities get attacked by invisible soldiers for starters, and they allways smash my cities no matter the defense and the attacker.
When units fight the screen changes to an extreme close up of the surrounding terrain and only returns to the normal view after the engagement.
My cities have been attacked by units on the entire other side of the globe, the units appear on one side of the globe and the "Float" half way around the world and attack my cities, this means that units anywhere in the world can instantly cross ocean mountain and endless terrain to attack my cities. Very disturbing especially when archers on the other side of the globe smash your dozen or so fully fortified mechanized infantry and destroy your city.
finally last night one of my workers just started floating off the side of the map. I pushed my map cursor and followed the unit to the right to see where it was going and it kept floating away, eventually it completely cirumnavigated the globe!! then the game froze and completely locked up my computer. No ctrl-alt-del worked, not even computer restart. eventually I unplugged the machine from the powerboard.
Please understand my situation when I say this next statement. I'm an Australian living in Fiji. the opportunity for me to get a new game comes about once a year! I have a top of the line Raedeon video card. In Fiji internet access costs $5 per hour!! that's ontop of the home connection rate and you have to pay a minimum of $500 a month for internet for a whopping 100 MB per month dowload cap!!! So downloading patches is not a viable option for me. It just aint gonna happen for me.
My statement is this, I played the other CIV games religiously, I usually played for upto 8 hours a day at least. Even up till the day before I got CIV IV.
I've logged about 50 hours so far on the new game but last night I took the game out of my DVD drive and threw it against the wall. took the pieces and smashed them again. Firaxis has forever lost my business for this atrocity.
