stax77

[quote who="dihir" reply="13" id="3287478"]Please note that not everyone plays the game the same way. I remember reading one person that completed the full 10000 turns or whatever that the game allows. I've not gone that far, but I have played far beyond 200 turns.[/quote] To add to the above point - not everyone plays the game on standard settings. My own favorite setting for instance is a game on huge map, epic pacing, insane world difficulty, dense monsters, 3 oppon

[quote who="Kongdej" reply="25" id="3287078"] (never build any unit wearing the "Club", or Gilden's special version of it, its really really useless)[/quote] I do build those sometimes. You're right that they are next to useless, however those clubs are very cheap(3g) to upgrade to hammers when you research weapon technology. So i just build a couple of those and have the sovereign take them into easy battles to get them experience. When i get them leather armor, shields and h

[quote who="hareamao" reply="11" id="3286932"]Question: How did you pan the camera?[/quote] Press and hold middle mouse button then move the mouse.

It's a very good game. You will need to give it some time before it 'clicks' but after that it only gets better and better.

[quote who="eobet" reply="21" id="3286963"]The default best unit already takes 10 turns to produce. If I add all of those traits as you guys suggests, it takes me 28 turns (spear and leather armor included). That feels insanely slow. [/quote] How long it takes to build an unit depends on the production of the city. Basically production time = unit cost/city production. To build units faster, make sure you have a city with good production. This means fou

[quote quoting="post"] Also by looking at the research on the Foreign Relations screen Markinn manages to do 4 research (from 203 to 207) even though his only city produces a mere 0.7 research points. He has nothing to offer in trades, I know because I set up treaties this turn and he went from -250 odd gildar up to about -190 curtesy of my treaty making and he had no resources or tech points to offer [/quote] Technically, he could have a cha

[quote]when reordering the build queue for a city, there's no way to move stuff to different pages of the build queue .[/quote] There is. But it's a bit wonky. There are 5 slots on the first page of the build queue. If you put a 6th item into the queue, it will be placed into the second page of the queue. Now, you can drag the 6th item over the 'left arrow' that is used to go to the first page of queue. This wi

IIRC, master of magic handled powerful overland spells by the way of giving them a several-turns cast time, informing other players the spell is being cast(through the means of a detect magic spell, i think) and give them an opportunity to try and counteract the spell.

I like the way it works now. It allows you to attack an enemy stack without ending up next to a second enemy stack weakened after the battle and with no movement points left.

[quote who="MisterAedan" reply="3" id="3284427"] Quoting Tuidjy, reply 1There used to be a quest that would give you a chance to choose a potion that heals all wounds. I have not seen it in a while. Ran into it recently, so it's still in 1.02. But now that Iru Elixirs are around and Butchermen can multiply themselves, I actually chose to recruit the Butcherman instead. It paid off, the creepy bugger practically won the game for me, but that was rushing my enemies on

[quote who="Tuidjy" reply="1" id="3284431"]Press the Govern button under the minimap in the lower right hand corner. Press the Ledger tab on the left side of the window that opens. Press the Enchantments tab on the top on the window. Find the enchantment you want to cancel (you can sort by enchantment or target) Hit the dispel button associated with the enchantment. [/quote] That, or click di

[quote who="Muttala" reply="5" id="3284437"] This seems like a major flaw on the original game, really before we debate on what "fantastic features" should be added etc, the basic game have to be playable or otherwise..."broken"? I would suggest a cap on max team number (9 as max) to avoid this ... [/quote] You have to understand, the campaign is not really the 'basic g

[quote who="Khorak" reply="52" id="3284351"] Quoting athelasloraiel, reply 51I never ever saw monster attacking an AI outpost. Never. I never saw a monster attack one of my own outposts either, actually. I don't recall having ever built a warden at all.[/quote] Brad said that monsters do not specifically target and attack outposts(or resources). They do however destroy them randomly if those happen to be in the way.

[quote who="starkers" reply="53" id="3284117"] Quoting stax77, reply 51Just to clear things up. I'm from the EU, not Australia. I don't know anything about australian stores. The link i posted i got from googling "australia computer store" and clicking on the very first link it gave me. Maybe it is a small trader, i have no idea really, but it's not like i had to search through countless obscure stores before finding one that offered a windows 7 PC. Took me about 3

[quote who="starkers" reply="51" id="3284074"]Okay, so a few smaller traders here and there are still offering Win 7 [/quote] Just to clear things up. I'm from the EU, not Australia. I don't know anything about australian stores. The link i posted i got from googling "australia computer store" and clicking on the very first link it gave me. Maybe it is a sma

[quote who="starkers" reply="28" id="3283635"] You lot must be behind over there in them states of tha USA... here in Oz, every major store is offering machines with Win 8 preinstalled, and nothing else.. .. like no Win 7 of any flavour. Checked in with a few smaller stores and the story's the same.... NO WIN 7. As for XP and Vista... well it's go whistle... has been for about 18 months or more. [/quote]

Maybe it was the other players that made contact with the locked one somehow? Flying units, revealing territory through magic, cloudwalk etc... But TBH, it does seem that the AI sometimes gets contact with each other under suspicious circumstances. Once i started in the middle of the map(i always play on large) and a road through the middle of my first city appeared within the early turns, disappearing in the fog of war on opposite sides - it seemed they could not have made contact th

Never saw anything like that. However there is a small bug where the name of the current building project displayed above the city does not change until the next turn after you rearrange the queue. Meaning, If the city is building barracks, then the city nameplate says 'barracks', then you reorder the queue so it is now building a militia, but the nameplate still says barracks until you press end turn. The production of the city for that turn correctly goes towards milit

[quote who="McSpanky" reply="21" id="3283592"]These sales are always a killer to my wallet. So far I have been good. I bought Sins: Rebellion. Recommended FE to folks I know. I am seriously tempted by XCOM. Though I may instead get... "How about a nice game of chess?" "No. Global Thermonuclear War." [/quote] XCOM is definitely worth the price tag(it was even before the sale). It's not as good as the old game,

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="39" id="3283581"] If I'm wrong, I'd like to know it. This isn't aimed at you; I'd just like to see evidence, so that I can change my opinions accordingly. I'm not doing myself or anyone else any favors if my facts are wrong--and that's true for you, too.[/quote] I am sure about my facts. That i cannot prove it to you with a link is unfortunate, but doing so would involve spending an afternoon sifting through

[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="35" id="3283520"]There's enough space on medium maps, and certainly on large ones. The AI gets the same starting conditions. You can check this out yourself with the cheats, revealing the map, and/or switching players.[/quote] That the AI does not get the same starting conditions and that there isn't enough room for them to be the same are actually Brad's words. My own contribution to the debate was only the guess that the AI gets

Civ 5 expansion, Avernum and complete thief package so far :)

Might be a bug related to the sage/restore... but you should zoom the map out to get a cloth map and check if there's any unvisited locations left, sometimes they are hard to spot unless you use the cloth map.

One thing i did not see mentioned in this thread: When the game generates the world, it always places less dangerous monsters close to the player, and more and more dangerous ones as you move away from your starting location. Its a difficulty progression that makes sense. The problem is, this is not true for the computer players, as there simply is not enough space on the map to allow for a 'safe zone' around every starting location an

[quote who="starkers" reply="19" id="3283454"]Windows 8 is all you can get when buying a new machine[/quote] I went to amazon.com, clicked on 'desktop computer' then clicked on the first computer in the 'best selling' category. http://www.amazon.com/gp