jmccrea

1- Id love to see dynasties put back in officially. I know some are working on it for a mod and Ive enabled dynasties in my XML folder, but Id like to see more done with this and especially your children. Heck, maybe if the game lasts long enough, one of your children takes over and you retire. 2- Also would like to see UNREST added to the main city info screen...the one at the bottom of your screen which gives a few of important numbers there. Unrest

Just curious but I enabled dynasties and then used the Ctrl F and it said 3 children were born...all to the one person I had encountered. Is that a mistake and they are really mine or does that really give them to your opponents?

Congrats Cari! You are off on one of the greatest adventurers ever...being a parent! My baby is now 6 months old herself and it has totally changed our lives...for the better!! Deciding to be at home with your baby is no small thing, but its a great choice! I work in the oil fields, and have to go out for 14-20 days at a time, with only a few days off in between, and its so hard to leaver my little girl and momma. So congrats on your new endeavor and GL

DOH!! Im a noob...somehow i forgot to put my iron mine down on my iron...strange...i remember selecting it on my city, but there was nothing there. When I did i had ore and it worked!!

Was playing a game and discovered chain mail, so happily i went to my units to upgrade them.....and nothing. NO option to upgrade them, even though i had created the units with the ability to upgrade to the best available. So, I went to create a unit with chain mail and decided ill have it use the best available(chain mail) and upgrade when available Echa time it would select the lowest armor that I had available...not the best. IM like WTF??? This is ne

Wow that would be interesting...would add a whole new slew of problems facing the players. Internal strife while trying to fend off nasties and other sovs, would certainly add an interesting wrinkle to the game. I like it!!

Was just on GoG and they have Galactic Civ 1 for sale. Wow cant believe its been that long that they can now have it. Doesnt look like they had to fix anything, like they do on some games, and there are a few xtra features. By them selling it does it take away from SD then or do they have to get permission first? I know many of their games are so old they are considered abandon ware or something like that. Just thought id see

Grats on the review!!

I see in the XML that dynasties are still in there and im wondering if I turn them on will they work? Let me rephrase that, I have turned them on and havnt seen anything yet. Do you get the cool wedding scene when you marry or is there something to let us know we have a child? Too me, I still feel this was one of the coolest things...my prodigy carrying on for me. Marrying them off? NEVER!!! Well maybe... Has anyone else seen if this

I wonder if Frogboy is thinking all this and taking notes like this as he plays. I mean he seems like a RP'er at heart! Which is a good thing imho. Battle hard Brother!!

I dont see a problem with it, because its a random start...its random. If you make it not random, then its not random! I mean, if 2 civs happen to start in the same area in RL, they would have to either get along or fight. Im sure this has happened in RL and why shouldnt it happen in a game. Especially in a game with this setting, 2 Sovs could meet and decide right there to duke it out. I like my maps random, which means anything goes. Others may not.

Glad to know SD isnt going on the market...that would kill they way you do business and treat your employees. I worked for a small company making motherboards, which got bought out by John Deere...4 years later its now all in Mexico...Im not in Mexico, so you can see what can happen. Keep strong Frog!! WE love SD(ok some of us) the way it is!!

2 new games woot!! ARe they going to be totally brand new or...perhaps one will be a new version of an old favorite(hint hint one that may have a cat type race that likes to conquer and eat everyone?) Glad to see you guys are doing good, especially with the way things are today. Since you are making lots of Win 8 apps, does that mean Win 7 users are now outta luck and should move to Win 8? I guess it could be time for a new gaming laptop for

Ive mentioned this before too, that you can be on the one end of the tactical battle map, your archers come up and zip...all the way across to them...then scroll all the way back to the mob, attack and move on. Ugh. Im hoping that they can do something about this, because I dont think the camera needs to move to the ranged units. Just stay where I have it.

My range units(archers) are still being put out of harms way but i got my first npc hero(went with the more mage one) and even after selecting path of the mage, he is constantly put with in reach of mobs getting to him on the first round and killing him. I dont understand why this is happening, because it hasnt before. I dont think that enemy units should be that close, to close and engage in their first round and be able to wipe out any of my units. Or at least l

Ive noticed this too. I have to defend my cities and units, but the Sov AI can send out pioneers with no fear, and yet mine have to be guarded along with my cities. I have yet to see a Sov city defend itself from mobs that wander around, and yet I have lost cities to them. I even saw one Sov city, with mobs surrounding it..and nothing. I think the AI for mobs, should be tweaked so they go after everyone. ONe think I love with raging barbs in Civ 5 is that...they

Ive been trying to make brand new maps and then play them and when I do the map Im on is not the map ive been playing. Im gonna try again in .51 and see what happens, but it was so strange. Not sure why the map feature wouldnt work, but im hopeful.

Thanks for the reply Derek!!

Does anyone know if making your own maps and then loading them in is working in LH? Ive been making a few maps...and then loading them in and get a completely different map...Maybe it isnt supported with LH as they want that tested, so im just trying to find out.

I have only recently found out they can be upgraded and loved it, but im not seeing the bonuses working....ie adding stables doesnt seem to increase my movement value while in the area...unless its not adjusting the number I see for my movement, but is letting me move more. Will do more testing on that. I love the fact that you added this in though as I play on ravaged worlds, and being able to put outposts at resources is huge. Maybe not so on a lush world where you can pla

ahh ok...first time i had ever noticed it!! :)

While playing thru .50 and messing with auto resolving battles, I noticed that in your army list, its always the very bottom unit that gets damaged. I changed this up between my new npc and my sand golem, and with the sand golem on the bottom, he started taking the damage and not my new npc. Not sure if this a bug, if this intended or what, but thought id let you know since I found it strange in that all my auto resolves for battle, it always the bottom one that takes the damage..

I couldnt find any settings for this, but what i was wondering is, if there is a way to stop the camera from snapping back and forth on the units. It gets kinda bad when im at the end of the screen with my melee and then swoosh...all the way back to my ranged the camera goes and then i have to scroll back all the way again...rinse and repeat if you have many ranged units. I had thought there was a setting, but maybe I was thinking of another game. I would really just like th

Ya im glad they added this in...though it could be a bit easier to use via drop and drag, but hey....Ill take it!!

Im also confused as to why the AI mobs, not sovs forces, dont seem to be attacking my cities, or the other sovs cities or whatnot. They seem to just wander around aimlessly and...I dont know what they do. I can understand if they are thinking "Hey I cant prolly take that city", but from what Ive seen they could do some dmg to them and to me. Also, not every AI mob, should prolly use tactics. Many undead types or even animal types may just charge in because...well...tha