Well well well ONE FIGURE UNITS used by Beta testers...

[dearmad]

I find it sort of funny that Solver's screenshots and CivRules over at Civfanataics both appear to use SINGLE UNIT units... I like the looks of single unit units better myself, and am glad this is an option!

[MarkG]

the reason is that solver at least has a lame pc

[dearmad]

LOL. Intereting, I didn't stop to think that performance would be lessened that much by multiple units on the screen.

[Solver]

I actually started using single-unit graphics only recently. I like them because:

1. I'm used to it.
2. It seems visually cleaner to me.
3. It has a very positive effect on performance.

[Lorizael]

With only one figure, what happens during combat?

[Solver]

Same as previous games.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by MarkG
the reason is that solver at least has a lame pc

You mean he doesn't have a dual-LCD setup?

[wgabrie]

100MHz Pentium 1
24MB Ram
2MB vga graphics
200MB HD
4x CD-Rom
He was lucky the computer could read CDs.

[Solver]

I prefer CRT monitors .

[wgabrie]

BTW, Solver is the number of units displayed as an option? Or did this get fixed-in-place in the latest version you played? I'm thinking this will be basicly the same thing we will see once the game is released.

[MarkG]

it's an option

default is multiple units as with all screens until solver's

[Addled Platypus]

noted, the first option I will check...love it


next option unit size


gota love it

[Nikolai]

I think I'll use the single figure unit option right away. I think I'll like that better, and a performance boost is a good thing too.

[Sabre2th]

I'm certainly going to give the multi-units a try, but my computer is rather old, so odds are good I'll need/want to go to single units for the performance. Nice to see Firaxis thought of that one

[Boris Godunov]

How easy is it to shrink the units to a less-gargantuan size? That's what I want to do first and foremost.