I was very happy, that Civilisation I was released last year once more and it works on WinXP (it was the package with all Civilisation games till Civ IV). I liked to nuke barbarians.
[quote]A good sci-fi book based on a game is Farnham's Legend. It tells the back story of the X Universe games, which are made by Egosoft.[/quote] Yes, definitely yes! I heard this book a week before (the DVD Farnhams Legende is the bonus of the collectors edition of X3). I read also Nopileos (the saga continues). This book is a bonus in the collectors edition of X2. These two books were my first german books I have read :D . They are great. The games too (well I did not played X3 yet,
Thank you.
I liked the possibility to backup the game to disk. I don't see this possibility in Impulse. Am I right or is it hidden somewhere in that nasty colorfull design?
First impression: I tried Impulse and I don't like the interface. It is full of colors and I find it disturbing. If I search for something, it is hidden in those flaring colors. And the program is pretty slow in comparison with the old interface.
You may mod the technology tree too.
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Topics like this one lead to flame wars very often.
I have installed WinXP SP3 and I had the same problem. The solution is NOT to uninstall TuneUp. This won't help. You have to restore visual style of Windows to its default state. Use TuneUp to do this. After you do this you will be able to install the service pack.
You also should check, that some pop-up blocker in your web browser does not prevent opening the window where you can add karma-points.
As gas prices will rise, new technologies will be used to power cars. People use oil now, because it is still relatively cheap in comparison with other propulsion systems. If the price changes many people will seek some workaround - electro mobiles, hydrogen cars etc. We have those technologies already, but we don't use them yet. But it will change.
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Beam weapons are good, but it is better to choose any different technology than the other races use. The reason: if most of the races use some weapon technology, they usually use the protection against this technology. However, if you have a weapon, that does not match their protection, you can beat much stronger foes: defender shield 16: gun 4 is as effective as laser 16 (4 = sqrt(16)).
I think, that my first computer game I have played was Pacman. It was damned good: text interface on the screen with 23 lines and 80 characters.
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Both games were genial. Too bad they do not work any more. I saw only one as excellent adventure game since those two - Polda . I don't know if this Czech game was sold worldwide. Perhaps the picture can tell you more... [img]http://www.zima-software.cz/vydane/img/polda1_1.jpg[/img]
I think they will remove the copy protection sooner or later. NWN had the copy protection too (NeverWinter is a Bioware game) and now it was removed in the official patch. I believe Mass Effect will be the same case.
I do not see any good reason, why the placement in Arctic area is wrong. There are a lot of penguins to eat! And now seriously: People live there even now. With more enhanced technologies it will be much easier. It is the same as underwater. You may find minerals there, you can find food there too. It may be easy to fix the placement of the square (I did not see the source code, so I can not tell, if it is really true), but is it really needed? If the game says the people live in the oc
I dislike the chess. One college at the secondary grammar school beat me every time we played this game. It was frustrating. If there is a random influence, I have a chance. And so I like Galactic civilisation and not the chess.
I don't like the way the espionage works. I do hope it will be changed in the future. If you need an info about some race, you have to harm it even if it is our ally. And the number of agents is stupid too. States on the earth with only few millions of inhabitants have much more agents than agents in the game, where the population is bilions of souls. The way in DL was good.
I do hope this expansion pack will winn the Expansion pack of the year victory.
The splitting of the fleet: I think it was mentioned somewhere. It is a feature. The fleet is considered to be complete, when some exact part of the fleet is ready. It is useful, when you move large fleets. Otherwise the all the ships would have waited for single frigate.
Yes it is so. I did not colonized Mars once, because I planned to flip it. The result was my territory has been compromised, but I was unable to flip the planet and I was too weak to declare war.
I do understand it. RTS strategies are quicker. A lot of people prefer to play two or three games per session rather than one very long. If plenty of people like it plenty of them buy it.
Sad, but probably true. However e.g. Black Isle has made several excellent games and it was a large company. (Fallout, Baldur's gate series...). Those games were great and polished.
At the beginning are the resources not so important (but it is important to occupy them for later use). But even few percent more to the huge income/research is significant. Yesterday I had quite large empire with only few military resources. The Terran attacked me and I took several theirs planets + two research resources. When I upgraded the mining starbases on them, the research was significantly (25 %) faster. BTW: Now I know, why Altarians hate Human. Humans are always problem. Fir
Large companies must feed a lot of economists. They are even more expensive as programmers.
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I agree. Random is random. It is fair. You can also have the better starting position, if you are lucky.