Ratatosk7

Using that logic why should I be charged for rearranging the chromosomes of a living being and in order to shape it to my will and eventually conquer the world zerg style.

A lot of things seem to change and recalculate from merely reloading a save. It bugs me a lot.

[quote who="troglyte" reply="10" id="2856080"] Quoting brycex99, reply 8Yeah, you can Raze a settlement by opening up it's info card after researching Fortifications in the Training line of Warfare for Kingdoms or Warrior Castes in the Garrisons line for Empires. A new option appears "Raze Settlement" and it tears it down. Definitely nice for some of the more useless AI settlement placements. Thanks for that. But why should anyone have to research "How to raz

Wet T-shirt contest that we were promised in beta!

Forgot half-decent multiplayer with rankings and global statistics. Also I'd like a sandwich. Oh and sponsored tournaments where I can win t-shirts and a great big golden champions belt or perhaps a crystal shard with gem corresponding to element (ruby=fire, etc) as a gift for special someones.

may want to update your post name if this issue is still occurring in 1.1

[quote who="jecjackal" reply="83" id="2855241"] Also it seems when I alt tab out of the game, my custom sovereign's portrait changes to Janusk for some reason heh. Who do you really think is sovereign?[/quote] Janusk is just looking for some bum to lead and get things started, later he can start a coup and blame all countries former issues (low food, lack of resources, complete lack of diplomacy) on you!

Oh looks promising! On a sidenote... I did not realize AIs were advanced enough to to predict future turns. For example does this simply mean that they cheat and see you teching say horsemen in a game and respond by training pikemen? Or does it mean they notice from their encounters with your army that you are very horse reliant, or see buildings that support horse tech and in turn realize they should train more pikemen in war preparations a

Sounds like you want to play age of empires [e digicons];)[/e]

Delivery of sandwich via carrier pigeon when hungry via ingame interface. Thereby saving precious minutes of walking to kitchen and preparing one that could be better spent playing elemental.

I have more hope for Elemental's future than Civ 5's. Like a fanboy I preordered Civ 5 and was not able to return it to get my money back. I'm stuck with both so I am now imagining it like a race to cope with my percieved $100 or so loss, which game will be my strategy replacement for Civ 4 first. [e digicons]8|[/e] Civ 5 team fired non-disclosure retired the civRevolutions guy they had lead the project after releasin

Expanding on unique tech trees dream; I liked the idea of uncommon/rare techs although the implementation I saw before they disappeared was quite bad. I think there was a lot of potential in the idea for rarer more powerful techs to make games a bit more unique, and I hope its added in the hopefully inevitable makeover of the current tech tree. Honestly now that work is probably going to begin on patching soon hopefully I'm going to be plugging this as much as possible along with the mor

Mystical would be hilarious. Prodigy reminds me of that old tech tree. I do hope uncommon/rare techs is implemented again only in a better way. I thought the core idea was very original and set the game apart from other 4x games.

ATM it has the learning curve of a strategy game, yet none of the depth/content. I don't mention the AI as we know thats being worked on. I'm waiting patiently for any news on future patches for all that other stuff. Quite a few bugs and game breaking mechanics that still need to be mowed down and the game doesn't yet have that 'one more turn' feel either. For me its more of a...click end turn, rinse and repeat, yawn. Winning the game is more of a grind/inevitability than anything involving s

[quote who="Wintersong" reply="11" id="2853586"] Quoting LightofAbraxas, reply 10Yes. Has anyone heard anything about the scope of the expansions? I've heard some troubling talk of them being "micro-expansions" a couple of times in the past couple of weeks. Then you haven't been hearing in the correct place. At least I haven't read anything by Stardock this last couple of weeks talking about doing microexpansions.[/quote] I think its just paranoia d

Merry Christmas!

What I don't understand is that the sales on Steam are often reflected on other digital stores even all purpose ones like Amazon and those less focused on actual games like Newegg. Steam has very clever marketing to bind it all together yet other places are still selling it at higher prices even though online stores like the examples I mentioned earlier are still selling them at sale price. Is this just because all the above can afford to sell less and match each other'

Why would you use something called Internet Exploder [e digicons]:thumbsdown:[/e]

hmm... looks like you can buy it for 69 dollars here or trade it in for 2. Also only works for playstation, isn't that nice. http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-2-Playstation/dp/B00000I1BP or you can get it for about 3.74 on amazon here for PC. http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-II-Pc/dp/B000FPM8OG/ref=dp_cp_ob_vg_title_0 Awesome game but probabl

I agree that the game should start out with few resources and wilderness style. However it should be a wilderness that you eventually overcome and conquer outside of a dragon or elemental lord type spawn. Early game you should be at the mercy of the wilderness, working on fortifying your position and getting the basics setup using goodie huts to give a boost. Midgame you should be looking to start dealing with neighbors through diplomacy (not really implemented yet imho) or war. Late game you

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="52" id="2853785"] Quoting tetleytea, reply 49I liked III better, but I never stuck around on IV long enough to appreciate the expansions. Apparently IV got better over time. On III you spend a lot of your time micro'ing all of your workers. And too much of the game rides on getting your first great leader. Ah, ok. I dont know much of the Civ games, but it seems that IV had more ex

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="63" id="2853582"] Quoting Carewolf, reply 40 Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 32 I disagree. Vanilla Civ 4 is one of the best strategy games ever made. The expansion packs simply take a great game and make it better. You seem to have the shades of history on. It took moret han 6 months before Civ 4 was even playable more than 2 hours at a time. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I had to quit the game every two hou

I agree with Heavenfall on this. Also I don't think kingdoms/empires are very red tape heavy. As king/queen you wield absolute power and when you tell them to do something and it gets done. Also you can light people on fire, that tends to cut down on any bureaucracy getting in your way.

I'm not sure if I agree with the original post, but I do think there are serious pacing issues with the current game. For instance population growth is way too fast and spell research is pointless to invest even a single city in speccing arcane research since once you get up a few monasteries or have an arcane improvement you are on the fast track to learning a new spell every other season until you are working on level 10 spell level research for lolz. Possibly cutting down on the effect pre

[quote who="Nick-Danger" reply="10" id="2852570"] Quoting Ratatosk7, reply 9Int is a very useful stat for Champions if you want someone that can cause a lot of damage with Arcane arrow. I usually make a wizard champion for kicks while playing. Though I still give him platemail a sword of wrath in case he is attacked by spiders of course That reminds me of a related but different issue -- there's no str requirement to wield the larger/heavier weapons. As there is (or should be) and