Deraldin

I'm trying to start another game of Beyond the Sword, but I haven't been able to get a map where I'm not within 10 spaces of at least one other civ.

I went to see The Simpsons movie earlier today. I thought it was pretty good. It was basically a funny 90 minutes episode of The Simpsons.

It's tough taking cities in Civ4, isn't it. A lot harder than in the previous games. Why were you ignoring religion? I ended up being the founder of Confucianism, Christianity and Islam in my game. I had over half the world converted to Confucianism. The major hold outs were the ones that had founded Buddhism and Hinduism. With everyone being part of my religion, I was raking in a pretty decent amount of cash from them.

Was playing through a game of Beyond the Sword as the Romans. I was on a huge continents map where I ended up on my own little continent except for Justinian I and his Byzantine Empire. I ended up making a really stupid mistake early on. My first city was at the edge of what could have become a bottleneck had I expanded properly. It was approximately 20 tiles wide, enough that I could have gotten 4 cities in there without any overlap and that would have blocked off the continent. If I had done that I would have locked Justinian out of 2/3rds of the continent and as I would eventually discover, it would have also secured me much easier access to oil. Instead of blocking Justinian, I went with the idiot plan and expanded in the opposite direction to fill out the little space behind me so that I wouldn't have to worry about rampaging barbarians which I beat up on Justinian. Unfortunately by the time I managed to get expanding in the right direction, there were already Byzantine settles moving in to lay claim to half the island. Our military forces were about even at that point so I beefed up my research until I hit muskets (Axemen with city defender upgrades slaughter anything below muskets) and built up a force of 20 muskets and some siege weapons to go take a few cities. My first attack nearly failed miserably. With 20 musketmen I managed to take one city and lose 17 of them in the counterattack. A dozen trebuchets can really do damage to a stack of enemy infantry. I ended up going back and forth for several centuries, where I would declare war, take a few cities and then ask for peace. Once I hit the high end resources like Oil, Uranium and Aluminium I discovered to my dismay that every single one of those was on the far side of the continent, so I would have to wade through city after city to get to them. The oil in particular would have done wonders for me as it would have let me upgrade my Ironclads to destroyers that would have completely ripped the repeated Viking invasion forces to shreds. Instead my ironclads would end up devastated by the enemy fleet and they would still manage to land all the troops. I finally quit in 1957 when I got tired of turns taking 5 minutes to process.

Right here. It's one that says "FREE!" right above it.

I was playing Beyond the Sword earlier today till it killed my computer when I tried to zoom out. All I wanted was to find some coal so I knew which direction to go conquering in. :sad:

Pfft! I just like to have a relatively clean desktop unlike some people around here. Everything else is in the start menu. Sure you did. I bet you haven't even unlocked the 3D mode.

That's cheating. Most of those aren't installed. I can call your Half-Life 2/Episode One and Counterstrike. Uplink is unfortunately not installed right now. The rest I don't have. I'll raise with the entire Command and Conquer collection (except sole survivor) installed from the original CD's and not The First Decade. Thanks! To be honest though, I found it about 2 minutes before I posted it. I wanted something a little nicer than a blank black screen. In other words, you're to cheap to play online. Just as well I suppose. You'd only end up pwned by my Demicanadian Bastard Lunatic.

What about me? :sad:

Hey Tale! What realm is your Progress Quest character in? I'm on Expodrine as Deral.

If anyone is still playing Overlord, the new PC patch removes the 30FPS limit. Download here

We seem to have an extra tweak now instead.

I saw both of them in theatres. Ended up watching 300. Will watch Hot Fuzz later.

Once again I'm struck down with wrist problems. My left wrist acts up every couple months. If it had been my right wrist (my mousing hand) I could understand why it happens, but when it happens to the wrist that isn't doing anything. I was planning on going for a nice long bike ride today, but with my wrist all screwed up today, I'll have to put that off till tomorrow or maybe Thursday.

I figured out what the problem was. It didn't install the game into the right directory. Some time after I installed Civ4 I ended up creating a "Turn-Based Strategy" folder and moved it there. When Beyond the Sword was installed it was installed outside of the "Turn-Based Strategy" folder. I copied everything into the right directory and now it works. Just tried an Afterworld campaign. My big tank got his ass kicked by a Feral. He killed 1 on his first turn, two on the second turn and then died on the third turn. Those things are strong. Two attacks too him from full health to dead. :sad:

*sirens sound* We have another bug. It's classified as a major. I repeat we have another major bug...

I just picked up Beyond the Sword, but unfortunately I'm getting some errors. When starting up, Python fails in initialize. :sad:

I just picked up a copy of Hot Fuzz and 300. I just need to decide which to watch first.

6 more non-feature bugs... 6 more non-feature bugs... *paces back and forth*

Very nice! It looks much better than the old version.

Last I heard it was an elite with a 20GB hard drive.

Earlier tonight I caught most of Die Hard With A Vengeance on TV. I thought it was entertaining, but definitely not as fun as the first movie. Now Rumble in the Bronx is on some I'm watching that.

November right?

Fallout 2 wasn't exactly hard, but there was at least a small chance of you being killed in combat, even if it was only a lucky critical from a Super Mutant with a minigun.

I think the real problem is that there is no standard scale by which sizes are assigned. A medium from one company is a XL from another. I'm 6' and in decent shape and I wear mostly mediums with a couple larges. All the t-shirts that I have bought locally have been mediums and they are pretty loose on me. I bought a couple medium shirts in BC when I was out there last year and both of them are way to small for me to the point where my head doesn't fit through the neck hole. I also have a t-shirt that I won in a contest that was shipped from the states. It's a large, but is actually smaller than the mediums that I buy locally. I'd love it if companies would all use the same scale so that a medium is a medium and a large is a large no matter where you get it from.