new update just released

[Tatran]

At least they turned off that irritating notice on the start page that a new DLC is avaliable.

No, they did not.

Spoiler :

 

[spider1]

No, they did not.

Spoiler :

Interesting. I started a quick game last night after the patch just to see if I noticed anything different, and that banner wasn't there.

 

[Kerosene31]

I still get the banner too which is really annoying. I bought it already, stop pestering me.

I actually had to refresh my game files twice to get the game to load after the patch.

 

[ImperialGuard]

Is it just me, or after this update, when you go into the "City Screen" there is
a new BUG introduced near your cities science total (top left hand side).

I see in blue letters "something..something.TXT" next to the science beaker.

 

[Arvedui]

I think I noticed in my last play session that the food meter in the city screen now fills correctly. Or had that already been corrected?

 

[Aos Si]

Oh god not the Koreans!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!



Can't they all speak good English anyway?

Koreans with their ludicrous bandwidths and startlingly large masses of interweb users. It's the beginning of the end! Run hide it may by you a few months before their Skynet goes on line and then its T-1000 time...

 

[baldfalk]

Can't they all speak good English anyway?

Not exactly. Where'd you get that impression?

 

[Zyxpsilon]

I think I noticed in my last play session that the food meter in the city screen now fills correctly. Or had that already been corrected?

Yep, that's the kind of tiny "Fixes" (Not a Patch, btw) we're getting often enough which is why i keep tracking what files are being altered for modding reasons.
For example FrontEnd.lua now allows KO & JP to skip the copyright warning popup upon start and go straight to the opening menu. Anyone else interested (such as US) would simply have to insert an extra slot for their supported language (localization) instead of having to rem the IF loop below in that specific file (Dale Kent's solution of a second overriding file from his custom Skin Folder).

Korean support probably means 2K is trying to go after the whole gigantic StarCraft market to convince the addicts (They really are, too!) strategy is more of an intellectual challenge than having the quickest real-time reflexes. Problem is - SciFi context is different than Humanity history.

 

[Aos Si]

Not exactly. Where'd you get that impression?

I was joking. Nm.

Clearly there would be no need to produce a Korean language version if they were indeed all merely trained operatives in the next bid for Korean world domination.

 

[Drawmeus]

Ambiguous! "Support for Korean localization" can be read either as "We're localizing the game for Korea so that we can sell it to Koreans" or "We're localizing content for the Korean civilization". Probably the former, hopefully the latter.

 

[Civ4Brains]

Is it just me, or after this update, when you go into the "City Screen" there is
a new BUG introduced near your cities science total (top left hand side).

I see in blue letters "something..something.TXT" next to the science beaker.

I'm getting the same thing on my pre-korea save's. haven't started up a new game post update to see if the glitch goes or not.

 

[MoonFlare]

Huh?Who cares about koreans...they are mesmerized by insects that shoot down alien motherships with needles.Do they really care about Civ?

 

[Save_Ferris]

I thought they were Starcraft addicts...

 

[AgaresOaks]

For SC addicts they have an awful lot of spare time to spend cranking out MMOs.

Just like everywhere else, there's a portion of Korea that enjoys TBS games, just like every other genre.

 

[Ermak-]

umm Korea? I am as a proud pastey white guy dating hot Korean chick..

 

[Michl2602]

Ambiguous! "Support for Korean localization" can be read either as "We're localizing the game for Korea so that we can sell it to Koreans" or "We're localizing content for the Korean civilization". Probably the former, hopefully the latter.

None of this. Language variables (like character set etc.) are named locales in computer jargon. I think that's where this is comming from.

 

[eris]

I think it is both. I can easily see coming up with a Korean Civ and simultaneously coming up with a Korean localization to try and capitalize on the attraction that new Civ might have in its geographical market. I don't know if that synergy will actually get them much of anywhere, but it sounds like the kind of thing a marketing committee could convince itself of.

Next they could do an English language localization so I don't see such grammatical boners as "a The Pyramids", "Lord Elizabeth" and "The Incas is". I figure if they're so careful to follow other language conventions by creating localization, they ought to be able to do the same thing for English. They may need two versions, English English and American English, but it is still doable ar at least something a picky Civ fanatic could hope for.