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Problem solved (touch wood): Link.

On balance, I tend to avoid putting cities near but not on the coast if there's more than one coast/sea square inside the city cross, which in this case there wasn't. To move Peragus to the coast would have meant losing the rice resource and the more fertile land by the river. Moving it further east and inland would have left Hammurabi an opening to reclaim the copper resource. I don't think the gem city (names, anyone?) needs to be on the coast, as there'll be plenty more coastal cities soon enough.

2400 (Turn 0): Ah, so the settler is already well on his way. I hadn't noticed that. I'm happy to stick with Pidesco's plan and get the copper, then. 2280 (Turn 3): The settler has arrived in place. As this city exists mainly for its mining, I've named it Peragus. Hope that's not a bad omen... Peragus is producing a warrior, because cities feel naked without warriors. Judaism's been founded... I also moved a warrior to the west, as some bears were eyeing him up, and not in a friendly way. 2240 (turn 4): The warrior is now being chased by panthers, and has retreated to a forest. Doomed, I reckon, but time will tell. The workers arrived and are mining copper. 2200 (turn 5): The panthers attacked, the panthers lost, and my warrior got his Woodsman II promotion meaning he can now move two squares a turn through forests. I've moved him to a forested hill for defense while he heals. 2160 (turn 6): Worker produced in Irvine has been set to build a cottage, and Irvine is now working on another settler. 2080 (turn 8 ): Peragus finished its warrior, and I've set it to build Barracks, more to allow the population to grow than anything else. 2040 (turn 9): I've switched Peragus to producing an Axeman, now that the copper is connected, and I'll send the worker to the rice next. 2000 (turn 10): Bandits strike - costing 10 gold from the treasury. 1880 (turn 13): Iron Working is done, and Irvine does indeed have iron. I'm doing animal husbandry next, but we need to think about The Oracle and whether we want to found Confucianism soon. 1720 (turn 17): Axeman is finished in Peragus, so we have a little time before Hammurabi can attack us, I think. 1600 (turn 20): So that's it. Animal husbandry revealed two horse resources fairly close to Irvine that neighbouring cities will pick up. We're researching Mysticism now, to keep the Oracle open as a possibility. Money is tight, and will be tighter once we've founded our third city. As for the third city, here's the general area. There's a warrior waiting near the centre of the picture on some gems, and that's one possible location for the city with a nice bunch of resources and fresh water. Move a little to the west, and we'll get ivory (chances are Hammurabi has some and those war elephants are nasty). Two squares to the east and we'll be on the coast, still get gems and bananas, and not be quite so much in Hatshepsut's face (She's not usually that aggressive, and we know we're going to be fighting Hammurabi soon enough). Alternatively, we could chicken out, swing the settler back towards Irvine and get another city connected to the iron resource. The woodsman warrior is way out west. By the way, I think I'm going to stick to two screenshots per go from now on. I'd forgotten how time-consuming it is to do them.

I'm on holiday! Yay! (starting now) And I'm flying home to the UK for ten days to see family and friends.

I'll take the next turn - won't be able to do it until I get home in an hour or two, though. Before then, if the settler's due on my turn, I'd like a consensus for where to send it. I prefer Pidesco's purple dot/city over the far away blue by the copper. I agree that it's unlikely there'd be no iron near the capital, given how far the nearest copper is, and maintenance might also be an issue at the blue site? What do you think?

I think this thread proves otherwise. Yup.

There's an urgent warning over on the NWN2 forums NOT to install the latest patch through the auto-updater: Link for more information.

They've revamped their website again? Isn't this twice now since Fahrenheit was released? Whoever heard of a console-exclusive adventure game? Other than Phoenix Wright, I suppose. It would be rather silly not to release on the preferred platform of fans of the genre. Unless it's not an adventure game, in which case, who cares?

So, the disappearing Khelgar is caused by having summoned familiars when you transition between modules. I managed to solve the problem with help from the NWN2 tech support forum, but the only way to prevent a recurrence is to stop NPCs summoning their familiars in their behaviour settings. *sigh* No more travelling zoo for me. :sad:

I read a thread on RPGCodex about someone who got an error where Khelgar merged with one of the familiars, resulting in a cat with various Dwarf-fighter feats and no way to get Khelgar back. I've now got the same thing, and the game is (I guess) ruined as a result. I'll have a look on the NWN2 forums to see if there's a fix, but otherwise, I really hope Obsidian can do something about this because I don't want to create characters for MotB - I want to take them from West Harbour all the way to the end.

It's not as if they're even that pretty, really. I found NWN2 to be much more visually satisfying than Oblivion. Thinking about Oblivion makes me hungry:

Trust me, we're as mystified as you are. This England team is bad. Very very bad. Historically bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. And still they beat you.

Yes, it's a very odd choice for default camera mode. Anyway, I got it back to what I usually use by going to Options -- Strategy Mode -- Camera Focus -- Directly on Controlled Character.

The secret when you're not sure if you'll like something is to buy two copies. Double the money, double the fun! Forget horse armour and leave the horses at home. Instead, you can work on your running and jumping skills. Cyrodil was designed to be skipped through.

Hello, and welcome to the forums. This is a well-known bug, and usually easily solved: Q. I am having slow performance on Dantooine and/or in the Jekk Jekk Tar A. Open SWKotor2.ini found in the map where you installed Kotor2. There find [Graphics Options] and add the line Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 (from the FAQ)

I prefer Noble, and I generally find the AI to be doing better in Beyond The Sword - not in combat so much, but in technological advance and in pursuing cultural and diplomatic victories.

I really love the fact that NPCs always summon their familiars and animal companions now. It's great running around with my own little zoo in tow.

I really like the way their picture of the three SLI cards isn't criss-crossed with six power cables barely reaching around them. Whatever happened to external graphics cards? I thought that was a really neat idea.

Half Life 2 was critically acclaimed and very popular, whereas Hellgate: London is still an unknown quantity. If you're determined to try something new, go with the game that's acknowledged as one of the best of its genre.

Yes. I can totally see this working.

I always found him bothersome - which was good, in a way, because few moments in the game come close to the satisfaction one feels on killing Vrook, so it's right that it should be long and difficult, and thus to be savoured. Have you tried hiding behind the trees? I've heard that works for some people.

That's shockingly undemocratic. What about the right to self-determination?

I read that. It was seriously scary, but I don't see how it would make a good movie.

Yes, it is. I haven't played the campaigns (campaigns don't interest me in Civilization either - it's the epic game all the way for me). Everyone has their own favourite improvement, but for me, by far the best was the introduction of colonisable planets with hostile environments, so you have to research certain technology before you can colonise them. It makes the game much more balanced, rather than 'getting a good start' being all-important.

"We are friends with the Jewish people." Except for the thirteen Iranian Jews you had convicted of spying for Israel at a show trial? Do you suppose 'Jewish Palestinians' refers to the Jewish people of Israel, or only some of them? "Nobody should spend tens of billions of dollars equipping and arming one group there." So they should be arming the other group like you are then? I'm sure that makes sense.