MacVarge
Chieftain
1. After seeing reasonable consistency in my income for several turns, suddenly I was in serious deficit. Trying to find out what had happened (given that there were no announcements and I had completed nothing) I looked into maintenance. These two pictures show a representative city on successive turns. The second screen has expenses roughly (but not exactly) totaling the individual categories, while the first is much lower. How might this legitimately happen and why doesn't it show?
http://www.macvarge.com/Images/maintenance.jpg
2. My unaccompanied tribe was "destroyed by a barbarian pigeon". Seriously? Now that I see this wasn't just a witty nonsense note, but is actually true, I'm irritated. Loading saved games often cause a "MAF" for me followed by a twelve minute game reload, so I'm out a hard-earned tribe. Dang tough pigeons.
3. I assume that the "Clockpunk" technology is an inside joke. When it was first suggested to me as a choice, I didn't select it as I assumed it wasn't real, but now I see my opponents with Clockpunk units, yet no longer see it as a choice. What gives? Is it on the tech chart and I just can't find it?
As an observation, I had posted earlier about how much easier my first C2C game seemed to me on the Noble level than regular Civ IV games. I was so far ahead that it got boring without competition. It was suggested that I go up a couple levels, which I did (but decided on the flexibility option Noble to Monarch just in case).
Now I find myself farther along in technology (flintlocks in the 600's) than I've ever been at this stage of a game, yet all players are way ahead of me. No one will trade with me as I have nothing they want (except religions) and then all of a sudden I found myself at war with all of them (save one) without a declaration of any kind (I never got the opportunity to "So be it" anyone!). Seems to have something to do with a war elephant trapped inside my territory but I can't be sure.
My opponents declared war and will not consider peace unless I give up my capitol city. This inflexible position has been maintained for over six hundred years so far. They don't pursue the conflict, except at sea, and must be as damaged as I am by the constant war. I'm not sure that this is an improvement over normal Civ IV.
The automatic adjustment mechanism took me down to the Prince level early on, but has decided not to drop me to Noble even though I seem to be centuries behind on tech. Guess they'd be building spaceships in the 7th century if it had stayed on Monarch.
http://www.macvarge.com/Images/maintenance.jpg
2. My unaccompanied tribe was "destroyed by a barbarian pigeon". Seriously? Now that I see this wasn't just a witty nonsense note, but is actually true, I'm irritated. Loading saved games often cause a "MAF" for me followed by a twelve minute game reload, so I'm out a hard-earned tribe. Dang tough pigeons.
3. I assume that the "Clockpunk" technology is an inside joke. When it was first suggested to me as a choice, I didn't select it as I assumed it wasn't real, but now I see my opponents with Clockpunk units, yet no longer see it as a choice. What gives? Is it on the tech chart and I just can't find it?
As an observation, I had posted earlier about how much easier my first C2C game seemed to me on the Noble level than regular Civ IV games. I was so far ahead that it got boring without competition. It was suggested that I go up a couple levels, which I did (but decided on the flexibility option Noble to Monarch just in case).
Now I find myself farther along in technology (flintlocks in the 600's) than I've ever been at this stage of a game, yet all players are way ahead of me. No one will trade with me as I have nothing they want (except religions) and then all of a sudden I found myself at war with all of them (save one) without a declaration of any kind (I never got the opportunity to "So be it" anyone!). Seems to have something to do with a war elephant trapped inside my territory but I can't be sure.
My opponents declared war and will not consider peace unless I give up my capitol city. This inflexible position has been maintained for over six hundred years so far. They don't pursue the conflict, except at sea, and must be as damaged as I am by the constant war. I'm not sure that this is an improvement over normal Civ IV.
The automatic adjustment mechanism took me down to the Prince level early on, but has decided not to drop me to Noble even though I seem to be centuries behind on tech. Guess they'd be building spaceships in the 7th century if it had stayed on Monarch.
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It isn't much of a deal if you have a TB of HDD space.
