cpl_rk

I just thought of something. I typically play with Altar and their special ability is 10 material and 10 metal at start, othersiwe they're average, no pluses & no minuses, which is sort of the way I like to start. I'm assuming that means all the other factions start with 0 metal and 0 materials? This in addition to my early exploration emphasis & expansion might be why I've never really had any problems running out of materials, it seems to be a fairly common resource fro

[quote who="3DGrunge" reply="17" id="2799446"] Honestly pc games are most commonly sold at walmart and bestbuy. For marketing they should go for a viral marketing plan on youtube or something of the like. Or simply hitting up all the game websites and make themselves known. I find it hard to believe the people who would play a little app game on their phone would ever buy a full TBS pc game, sounds like the faulty [/quote] I think amazon has the PC ma

There was a new version upload & I decided to upload the new version 1.09e and start a bran new game. I got to turn 81 and the game just locks up after turn 81, no matter what I do. I tried exiting & restarting the game like 4 different times and it locks up every time. I restarted my computer too, made no difference. So, I'm just posting this game for Stardock troubleshooting purposes, as it's impossible to move past turn 81 without a crash I don't know why? I move the last g

[quote who="Kalin" reply="5" id="2799239"]It always works for me as well. Just an update problem with large mountains. IE: if you lower one out of a 4 tile mountain (on cloth map), 3 tile should remain as mountain, but all 4 disappears and "looks" like empty land. One of those 4 is actually hills (not updated to look like hills either) and can be moved in, the other 3 are still mountains but doesn't display as such on the cloth map, and thus ends up being very confusing. The only way to know

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I wrote pretty extensivly on this topic in the Number of Turns important thread, so I won't go into great detail. I think speed and timing are significant as they are in most games. I've found in this game that defeating the AI is easier early on in the game while they're weak, which is generally true of many 4x games as well. With the above in mind, the first think I do on turn 1 & 2 is build that workshop, since metal & material might be hard to come by the first 2

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="16" id="2799145"]how has city spam been delt with in real life? [/quote] It hasn't, there's like 6 billion people on the earth.

[quote who="Glowing_Ember" reply="3" id="2799148"]i find that in mountains you have to carve your way through them, simply casting the spell once or twice wont be enough. I've never had the spell not work not. Also, the terrain the cloth map does not update properly after the spell is cast - mountains on the cloth just dissapear as if the land went flat but there is still a hill there. This might be what is causing the problem. [/quote] You've never had it

[quote who="RavenX" reply="8" id="2799115"] Quoting Fearzone, reply 1 Summoned giants + deflect and freeze spells will carry you through all the way to the end game. Out of all the games I've started and worked through, I still haven't cast the Deflect spell even once..lol. [/quote] I've found deflect to be a useful spell. I'd say it's somehwere in the 5th to 8th most common spell usage for me. Being able to st

[quote who="KillzEmAllGod" reply="13" id="2799133"]city spam is bad in civ 5 because of social policys thats if you wanted them should have made all the crappy places i took pupets too .... oh well... nothings going to deal with city spam... unless you make it that you can only have one city. [/quote] I think civ 3 or 4 had an artificial control with corruption. The further you were from the capital the more productions & everything you lost to "corruption," there

[quote quoting="post"] Q: Know any good 4x games? A: Ahhhhhh, we don't sell adult games really, but in Grand Theft Auto you can bang a hooker! ---Larry [/quote] You're killin me !! [e digicons]\o/[/e]

There's definitely a problem with the lower land spell, which I mentioned before in other posts. I've never had a game crash on my system, but the lower land spell typically doesn't work 70% of the time I cast it. The mountains will actually disappear, but if you try to move your guys on the now-lowered square the game won't allow you to move there. Also, If you save the game & restart the terrain will revert back to the way it was before you cast the spell. The game doesn't seem to

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[quote who="Raven-sb" reply="3" id="2798765"]@Fearzone by turn 200 I'm lucky if I have two cities build, and I'm struggling to come up with materials to buy unit's, buildings, etc. How do you manage to launch an invasion force so fast? I'm not trying to be snarky, I seriously want to know as I view my slowness as being a weakness in my gameplay. Cheers, Raven [/quote] I usually a fairly huge kingdom by turn 200 and h

[quote who="MOIISKA" reply="2" id="2799048"]This space for rent. [/quote] I'll wait for 1.1 before my final review. I expect a whole lot of improvement in 1.1, especially in regards to AI capability.

[quote who="fealach" reply="3" id="2799049"]Still happening for me. I had hoped the recent patch would help, but no such luck. It's annoying that even when I have a massive army and I'm fighting one sad little tadpole my casters will use all of their mana with auto-resolve, and I'm forced to auto-resolve every few battles because my troops won't obey me. Heck, even I won't obey me. [/quote] I've noticed that this in particular happens to horse archers more than

In 4x games number of turns is very important, especially from a conquest POV because: 1) you want to conquer the enemy before he conquers you 2) you want to build a stronger army faster than your opponent, otherwise you'll lose against a competent opponent 3) you want to research that advanced tech that gives you a bigger military advantages over your opponent first, or get crushed if he develops it first. I'm a strategy game player and less a R

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[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="15" id="2798559"]Couldnt you just program the AI to protect the gates? I don't think that would be any more difficult than programing them to use teleport wisely. But then again, I really dont know shit about programming. [/quote] Apparently, programming an AI is almost impossibly hard, as a programmer explained to me in another post. Even just adding a simple spell would likely break the game because the AI would never be able t

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2798576"]It's all going to be moot because in v1.1, you can store mana. [/quote] Ok, and how does this relate to teleport costs?

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="23" id="2798541"]I'm just pulling your leg, man, chill buddy. The game would play like shit on a NASA super computer, but they are fixing it and it's getting better. But still, if you only have the minimum reqs, its never going to play well, for a game to play well, it should play well on the recommended reqs. I haven't looked at the box, and rarely do, so I dont know what those numbers are. [/quote] LOL, I always make

[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="22" id="2798536"] Quoting cpl_rk, reply 18 Correct and the OP does not have 1 gb of available RAM according to the post, unless they turned off their OS while playing. He also said the game is bad, and although I disagree, I found solidsmooky's comment funny, and I still do. quoting post My system does exceed the minimum requirements 2.8Ghz P4 processor, 1 Gig RAM, 256m AT

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="13" id="2798529"]We just need to be able to build teleporters, like the magic mirrors in the book. Then we could teleport between cities or where ever. Or they could be a resource, like shards or gold!!!! Oh shit, thats a good idea, I wonder who I unconsciously stole it from. Magic gates that are on the land scape, that you can use to teleport if they are either in friendly or allied zones. Have to research magic tree like shards to u

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="19" id="2798520"]I don't know what the big problem is, I run this game on my TI-85 calculator I got in high school , and it runs fine. [/quote] If the system reqs say the game should work on a TI-85, then the game should work on a TI-85. I didn't design the game, I'm just saying that it should work on systems that meet the reqs as advertised.

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="16" id="2798484"]Normally i'd agree with you because this is a bad game but the fact that you have 1 gig of ram and are complaining means i'm going to make fun of you instead. [/quote] I just checked the back of the box, it actually does say under system requirements: 1GB availabe RAM, so I wouldn't laugh too hard.