Deraldin

You can also try killing Gnarl. If you target him and just keep whacking away I think you can kill him just like the jester. They aren't invincible, but the do have about a million health each...

It's : sad : instead. :sad:

Got fed up waiting for a good map in Civ4 so I took the first one that popped up this time. I ended up sharing a continent that covered half the map with 5 other civs. I managed to expand relatively quickly and pickup a good quarter of the continent before I was boxed in. I had one civ on my right about 15 squares from my capital, an inland sea about the same distance on my left, the northern coast of the island about 10 spaces north of me and a large mountain range 15 spaces south of me. I have 15 cities evenly spaced out in this area and all of them heavily built up with at least 10 people in each except for one which is being squeezed by a desert and the neighbouring civs cultural border on the other side so it doesn't have a lot of food production. I'd like to see other civs take the relative strengths of units into account when they decide to declare war on you. Yes, you outnumber me 2-1, but my units are twice as strong as yours are. Maybe attacking me is not such a great idea? When your 20 unit stack fails to take a city garrisoned by two units, maybe your picked a fight with the wrong guy. All that said, I reached the 1800's and now the game is taking to long to play out each turn so it's time to quit that map. I think for the next game I'll cut the world size in half and go with a single continent.

Haha! Bok only has a 5.7 for CPU score!

I don't really have a problem with it in the earlier games, but I find it a lot more difficult to wage war on others in Civ 4. The extra bonuses to defense that cities get really slows you down. It's impossible to really blitz an opponent because you take 2-3 turns per city you take + the time it takes you to move between cities. I think they should get rid of the commando ability and give everyone the ability to use roads no matter whose borders they are in. Why can't you use them, just because they aren't yours? Do the magically disappear when you try to use them? I know that they put all the civs in the old world when you play on a Terra map, but I don't think they do it on any other map types. They do tend to cluster though. You may get 2 or 3 on one continent and 8 on the other, but that's about it as far as I've noticed. I think the second game is still my most played Civilization game, although I always had the "Test of Time" version of it had an expanded space race option. The game didn't end once you reached Alpha Centauri, but kept going so you could colonize the new planet while conquering your neighboring civs back on Earth. It also had a second tech tree that was unlocked once you reached the planet. I don't think you can really say that the Civilization games have been getting shallower as time goes on. IMO, with the exception of Alpha Centauri-to-Civ 3 transition, they've been getting more and more complex. Maybe because they are fun?

How does it feel to play something other than Fallout for a change? Also, I've decided that Civ4 games on Marathon speed is no fun. Once you get going and have a half dozen cities I think it would be fun, but when it takes 3 hours to get there during which the vast majority of your time is spent repeatedly pressing "End Turn" it just doesn't seem worth it. I think I'll be sticking with Epic speed.

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*