'Official' releasedate: November

[Shogun Gunner]

Or that the price is 20-30% higher for a laptop with equivalent power to a desktop

[joncnunn]

The only notebook issue I have with Civ III is the annoying key pad issue; it has plenty of power.

I'd defintely like to see in Civ IV the following options maped to other keys which interfere with numeric keyboard mapping of notebooks:

Irrigation : How about renaming to Farming so it can use "f"?
Mining : How about renaming to Hamering so it can use "h"?

And please map "*" to a "0" inside the gold / gold per turn fields in negoiations, so I don't have to turn off the numeric key pad for that.

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Yahoo should also add on their invalid password message in addition to the caps lock being on the numeric key pad being on. I've often forgotten I left numeric key pad on.

[vovan]

Originally posted by joncnunn
The only notebook issue I have with Civ III is the annoying key pad issue; it has plenty of power.

I'd defintely like to see in Civ IV the following options maped to other keys which interfere with numeric keyboard mapping of notebooks:

Irrigation : How about renaming to Farming so it can use "f"?
Mining : How about renaming to Hamering so it can use "h"?

And please map "*" to a "0" inside the gold / gold per turn fields in negoiations, so I don't have to turn off the numeric key pad for that.

I think it'd just make most sense to allow some mechanism for the player to redefine the keys.

[Nikolai]

Low end is of course a matter of view, but I have a 3 year old(If not older) computer running on a P4 2GHz, 512 MB RAM. And as 3 year is the "standard" life span of a computer(well, that certainly has changed, I can play all my games on this computer with no problems...), that should at most be regarded as a medium end computer I guess.

[Modo44]

The game will be 3D, so whatever graphics card and RAM you have will determine how smooth the interface will work. I know my 1,5 year old system ran Doom3 just fine. Is the Pirates' graphics engine more or less challenging?

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Here is what I received.

[Solver]

The game will be 3D, so whatever graphics card and RAM you have will determine how smooth the interface will work. I know my 1,5 year old system ran Doom3 just fine. Is the Pirates' graphics engine more or less challenging?

Don't kid me . No engine is more challenging right now than the Doom3 engine. Certainly if you could run any of the 2004 big shooters, you can run Civ4.

[Paddy]

certainly hope many can run it without too many costly upgrades

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by binTravkin
That's really a low-end.

so much for my s****y new 350mhz p3!!
(and i do mean millihertz)

over here "the holidays" means anything from 24/12 (christmas eve) to 26/1 (australia day). as opposed to february which is commonly referred to as 'the hang-over'

oh, and then there's easter, labour day, anzac day, queen's birthday, proclamation day, melbourne cup day, eight hours day, blood oath day, proclamation day, bank holiday and additional days just in case any of the above falls on a sunday.

anyway, looks like i'll be stuck with c3c for some time yet

edit: omg they bleeped sw@nky!

[Solver]

Originally posted by lebensraum

so much for my s****y new 350mhz p3!!
(and i do mean millihertz)

More like megahertz .

[Nikolai]

I think you missed the point.

[Solver]

I almost got a stroke :P.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by lebensraum

edit: omg they bleeped sw@nky!

Well it does have w@nk in there.

[Terra Nullius]

theocratic police state!!!

[Nikolai]

You mean, Iran?