RobJ

Myself and one other person on the Steam LH forum seem to have the same audio bug, with an M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB 2.0 audio interface -- see the link. The sound periodically drops out, and my USB keyboard lights flicker -- it seems that the game periodically resets the entire USB bus, or something to that effect. I know this is the classic "some old random piece of flaky PC hardware" situation, but nonetheless, this is making the game unplayable for me. As an o

In my game last night I was trying to spam pioneers heavily, with only one city (which still wasn't growing very fast despite going heavy on econ, Agriculture, Mining, etc.), and getting outposts to all the resources ASAP. I left a couple uncovered, though, and that sneaky Relias -- abusing our trade agreement -- snuck some pioneers into my territory and planted outposts deep inside my kingdom! So now I am going to want to put down outposts EVERYWHERE to cover every single s

I'm playing against Relias in each game. Thanks for the tips, I will focus everything on my capital city and see what happens, and spam outposts everywhere. Is there any downside to spamming outposts for every darn resource in the game? And I'm learning that once you have world-map spells, you always want to spam an outpost right before tackling an ugly mob, so you can nuke them massively before you engage....

Hmm, and the handy game mechanics FAQ might have the answer right there: Q: What are outposts good for? Can't I just build another city? A: Cities can only be build on tiles with grain, outposts can be built anywhere. Also, you might not want to build a city everywhere. Every extra city splits your faction prestige, which allows cities to grow faster. If you

Nomorebeef, I have to disagree with you. Markin sounds totally depraved, for sure, but I actually kind of dig it. He's like this guy:

Back at v0.86 last night, still playing a tiny / normal / one-AI game just to learn the small-scale mechanics and initial build order. Thanks to tips here and elsewhere I started focusing on econ tech, and that along with a massive pioneer rush got me a whole lot of territory. So I'm certainly in good shape. Only problem is the DAMNED computer still beat me to the Great Mill, and I have no idea how it did it. I was trying every trick I knew (good starting