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Offline mikhael

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Reply #20 on: October 24, 2005, 04:16:45 pm
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No, they didn't in Civ 3. That was the biggest complaint about the combat system was it depended so much on randomness. I have heard in many cases of modern armor units (the most powerful land unit in the game) being stopped by spearman (the second weakest in the game).


Well my veteran spearmen behind city walls with other buffs failed to repell modern armor in every single case. In the reverse case, when I rolled my old school Spanish tank divisions across America, I rolled over the amber waves of grain and their musketeers like... tank divisions through musketeers. :D
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Reply #21 on: October 24, 2005, 04:35:11 pm
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No, they didn't in Civ 3. That was the biggest complaint about the combat system was it depended so much on randomness. I have heard in many cases of modern armor units (the most powerful land unit in the game) being stopped by spearman (the second weakest in the game).


I did hear that they have fixed this problem in Civ 4. Now it is no longer possible for a completely obsolete unit like a spearman to beat a tank.


EDIT, oh, I forgot to post the official system requirements. Personally I think they are a bit steep for a game like this.

 

I have to say that those specs aren't that steep at all :)

1.2GHz?  Not much of anything really.  And 1.7 gigabytes...not a huge amount these days either.  What will be interesting is if its shipped on a DVD-Rom or on multiple CD's.  I've been holding off on the DVD-Rom drive but it may now be time :)
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Reply #22 on: October 24, 2005, 04:36:16 pm
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Looks like I won't be buying it soon...


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Reply #23 on: October 24, 2005, 04:46:01 pm
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1.7 GB?!


darn, I can only install it 30 times over, then.
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Reply #24 on: October 24, 2005, 05:25:38 pm
I use a laptop. And I'm trying to figure out what all of that 1.7 GB is for... it's not like a game with a huge amount of pretty effects and textures and models and stuff like FS is...
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Reply #25 on: October 24, 2005, 05:30:26 pm
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I use a laptop. And I'm trying to figure out what all of that 1.7 GB is for... it's not like a game with a huge amount of pretty effects and textures and models and stuff like FS is...


I could install it 20 times over on my laptop*, had it had enough processing power... but yeah, it's probably bloated as a means of copy protection or something like that. or movies, uncompressed and hours long.

* 300mhz, 40gb hdd, 64mb ram. yes, the hdd's freaking out-of-place in that machine.
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Reply #26 on: October 24, 2005, 06:16:18 pm
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I have to say that those specs aren't that steep at all :)

1.2GHz?  Not much of anything really.  And 1.7 gigabytes...not a huge amount these days either.  What will be interesting is if its shipped on a DVD-Rom or on multiple CD's.  I've been holding off on the DVD-Rom drive but it may now be time :)
I'd say DVD, as it is listed as having a DVD-ROM drive as a requirement.
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Reply #27 on: October 24, 2005, 10:57:44 pm
In the US, it will be sold on CDs, but in Europe it will be on DVDs.
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Reply #28 on: October 25, 2005, 02:31:34 am
And this information is from....?
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Reply #29 on: October 25, 2005, 02:36:11 am
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Reply #30 on: October 25, 2005, 11:21:43 pm
This is to :bump: the thread.


http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=132750


It's been delayed.
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