Is it me or is the Civ 3 tutorial worthless for a person who has never
played any version of the game. I just bought it "new in box" on ebay,
should the game have come with a manual? I've tried the tutorial twice
and have absolutely no idea how to play this game.Thanks

It's strange : I have Civ IV on my computer (with 1.09 patch installed)
but the patch v152 says it can't launch because it doesn't find any Civ
IV version on my hard disk. Am I the only one ? (it's a french version
of the game).

Is there a way to turn off the movie that pops up when you complete a
wonder?  My machine crashes about 2/3 of the time when that happens.
Thanks,
Jack

Latest patch for Civ 4 now available (1.52).  That's a big leap in
version numbers !!  Looks like a number of performance fixes and
support for lower spec machines amongst other things.
Go see http://www.civfanatics.com/ for more info plus download.

I just discovered DyP, and boy does it rock. One thing I can't figure out,
though, is what the new governments (Federal Rep and Social Dem) are supposed to
be good for.  They both seem inferior to straight Democracy in every way - money,
research, war weariness, unit support, ...

I noticed while browsing through Amazon.com today that Heroes of Might
& Magic V (Ubisoft) is available for $19.99 through the Target section
on Amazon.  It says the game is scheduled for a 2006 February 28th
release.  It has to be a mistake but I wonder if they will honor people

This looks like a big upgrade, with buy fixes, memory fixes, and
performance enhancements
The readme for the patch is at
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/doc/Civ4v152Readme.htm

OK I'm confused.
I have a new but fairly entry level laptop with an onboard Intel GPU
with no T&L so I assumed I wasn't going to be able to play Civ 4.
However on this months PCZone magazine cover disk was a demo of Civ 4.

I've only played 1st/3rd person shooters my entire gaming life and I'm
interested in getting into some strategy gaming.
In particular, I'm looking for:
* urban/guerilla (but I'll take what I can get, just no fantasy)

Space Civilizations is a turn-based massive multiplayer space strategy game,
that is played with a very slim downloadable client. You share a galaxy with
hundreds of players, some of them might turn out to be your enemies, others
could be your allies. You need to explore the ...

Anybody out there know any games that are similar to SSI's Panzer Generals?
My dad in law has been playing this game from start to finish more than
once, and would like something in the same style of gaming. Anybody has any
suggestions of games that are around atm and preferably NOT ...

I personally loved his Commodore 64 games like Jungle Jake, Lunar
Buggy, The Last Ninja, Dark Fortress, and Phantasy.
Here's my favorite quote from Cleve: "If you kicked my a.s into the sky
I would come down as sunshine, that's how good I am at what I do."

I just got this game and am really enjoying it.  It's more fun than
WarCraft 3, in my opinion.
I like the idea that for soldiers, squads are treated as a collective
whole.  This makes sense.  After all, in most RTS's, you tend to put

My friend and I just finished a play-by-email game in Civ4.  It was
extremely slow, but we learned a lot about the game.  We want to play
our next game in real time over the internet.  Can anyone give me
advice on how to do this using the Xwire site?  Is there a link

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