SteveThaiBinh

It's always the same minority of troublemakers who get all the attention. You're focusing exclusively on the 'great powers' - but the world is full of countries that are not great powers (the great majority in fact). Yes, I'm sure you can give me lots of examples of small wars between small countries, but I stick to my main assertion: most countries spend most of the time neither at war nor planning war. How far back into the past this extends is debatable, certainly. Civilization 3 simulates relations between great powers; it doesn't aim to represent a more complex reality. But I still find it fun to play it in strange ways. Thinking about it, I've probably spent more time playing this game than any other single game in my life.

"You have left me an opening!!"

There's one of these over on the Way Off-Topic forum as well. I don't understand the point. Is paobing getting commission for every dupe he sends there? But how can the target site detect that we're coming from the Obsidian forums?

Nope, you can't keep playing when you've finished, but you can start again with a different sex and take a different alignment path. That's more fun, I think.

Tell it to the judge.

I got the virus, too. Or worm, or whatever. And I didn't find it funny - I once had a virus off an email from a family member in the Middle East and it destroyed my motherboard somehow. I don't think Jodo Kast overreacted at all. I did report the link to the moderators, although they seem to be on holiday today, and although McAfee seems to have caught the virus, that's not the point. I guess I won't be clicking on any links for a while.

Doors in Kotor 3 should definitely go 'whish' when you open them - either that or sigh with satisfaction as in Hitchhiker's Guide.

I'm impressed that this has been going since 1916 - it has truly stood the test of time. Still not as bizarre as worm charming, though.

Your cynicism is sweet, but a little overdramatic. In the real world, nations are looking for ways to improve their economies and living standards, not plotting to invade each other. Civ3 is not really a world simulator of course, but it can be fun if played as such. Go ahead, try it. :D

At that age?

I usually start as Sentinel as well, because it gives the skills necessary to unlock some interesting dialogues. I don't think a Guardian/Weapons Master is much stronger than a Sentinel/Weapons Master, once you've got a few levels of the prestige class.

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I tend to play Persia or Ottomans - industrious and scientific both. Less fiddling with workers + cheap libraries. Either that or the Greeks. It'll be a shame when CivIV is released to have fewer civs to choose from, but I'm sure expansion packs will follow...

Thank you. In my next game, I'll be smashing the Russians into ice-cubes and thinking of you. :D

Yes, it allows it, but it doesn't recognise it. You still get the silly 'you lose' screen at the end. However, it's not a major complaint. The strength of the game is that it does allow you to play in this way, and that makes me happy. However, as to victory conditions, it would be nice formally to turn off the concept of 'victory' and just play as a simulator. Not essential, but nice. Most countries in the world today do not judge their success by how high they are ranked on the global power list.

I don't always play it as a game of world domination. My preferred approach is to play the game as a simulator, with all the victory conditions turned off - then my goal is for my people to survive and prosper all the way to 2050 relatively intact and with good relations with neighbouring countries. It's a shame the game doesn't have a mode of play which recognises this.

Thank you. Jodo Kast, could you remove it from your quote as well?

Hilarious. Could you remove the link before you catch anyone else, please?

Still, when I did it, it was in the context of ShadowPaladin's non-existent JRPG links, and obviously (I hope) a joke. If you splurted out your coffee and shorted out your keyboard, please send all claims to Servant of Eru.

First, try searching this forum all the way back to February. Lots of people have had similar problems, and different solutions seem to work unpredictably on different computers - I don't think there's a clear pattern. Kotor 2 works very strangely on some graphics cards. There have been cases where the patched version was worse than the pre-patch version. Have you tried running it without the patch installed. The patch doesn't really sort out any major bugs or gameplay issues. If all else fails,partition your hard drive so that you can store important data on d:, then wipe and reformat c: and reinstall Windows and your whole system. It's a fun way to spend an afternoon, and it clears up lots of problems. I must get round to doing mine again.

Kotor 3 has just been confirmed. It's true. Look, here's my link .

Lawyers. There wasn't a formal declaration of war between the US and North Vietnam. Rather like the UK didn't declare war on Argentina, so it's always called the Falklands Conflict, not war.

Bank, is it? That may prove to be the pivotal move of the game, unless a Victane alignment is achieved within the next two plays. I believe it's EnderWiggin's move next.

That certainly is the consensus amongst my Vietnamese friends. But this is a day for celebration. The US has given much to the world, including today's Comet strike - pushing the bounds of science forward. Let them celebrate (we can resume the assault tomorrow ).

Not very effectively, in my experience, at least. Where I've won with a Culture Victory, it's usually been where I could easily have won with a Space Race or even Domination Victory, but held back deliberately. I hope they rebalance it in CivIV.