The Official Nitpick Thread

[Dis]

what gets me is someting they drop units off from a ship, and I don't see them. Yes I know it's in the events log. I just have to ctrl tab to see where the units landed.

[Prussia]

The point is, your SHOULDN'T HAVE TO press ctrl tab to see it.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Ideally, there would be an option in the graphics menu to enable/disable (some of) those circle-with-arrow event notice graphics and make (some of) them persistent.

I couldn't care less which city is celebrating. I'm sometimes interested when cultural boundaries expand. I'm always interested when the enemy appears. I should be able to pick and choose which of these events (and others) I receive notice of, and I should be able to make the most important event notices stand out like a sore thumb until I "click-to-close" them.

[Bkeela]

Reading about the Warlords expansion tonight, I have this complaint to make:

Damn it Firaxis, your games are just too much fun! I've been playing Civ IV every day for 8 months, and I haven't come anywhere close to getting bored.

First there was Civ, then Colonization, then Civ II, then SMAC - where does it end? With Warlords, I'll be playing Civ IV until the Second Coming...

[Bushface]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
Ideally, there would be an option in the graphics menu to enable/disable (some of) those circle-with-arrow event notice graphics and make (some of) them persistent.

I couldn't care less which city is celebrating. I'm sometimes interested when cultural boundaries expand. I'm always interested when the enemy appears. I should be able to pick and choose which of these events (and others) I receive notice of, and I should be able to make the most important event notices stand out like a sore thumb until I "click-to-close" them.

Hear, hear ! However, such events do appear in the Events log, and clicking on an item in that log centres the map on its location, but without a marker; so careful examination will show you where the enemy are, etc.

Another nitpick: I have just built my first siege unit, and got the message "Congratulations ! .... first siege unit [unit name] .....cause collateral damage to the tiles they attack." But (a) they damage additional units ON the tiles attacked, not the tiles themselves, and (b) I had trained a Machine Gun, which cannot attack.

[axisworks]

I hate this game! It's not absolutely perfect in every way!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Azuarc


1) Galleys after Astronomy...I don't know how many times I've tried to build a Galleon and clicked on the rather obsolete Galley by mistake. Why don't these go away? I've made this mistake often enough I could swear the computer must be changing my production.

Possibly because the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire were still using them in the 17th Century ?

It might seem strange, but then the Portguese had ocean going caravels much, much smaller than the multi-masted contemporary junks of Zheng He's Ming dynasty expedition which reached Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and East Africa.

The caravels however, did more than just hug coastlines.

[wardhali]

in the conquest victory movie, it apears that a knight moves two spaces dirwectly forward, a move illegal in chess. (I am not sure about other moves)

[iapetus556]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Possibly because the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire were still using them in the 17th Century ?

It might seem strange, but then the Portguese had ocean going caravels much, much smaller than the multi-masted contemporary junks of Zheng He's Ming dynasty expedition which reached Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and East Africa.

The caravels however, did more than just hug coastlines.

Although those galleys would probably have different stats to the Classical Greek/Roman ones. Not least on the grounds that they carried cannons. They were also faster and more manuvourable than many contemporary sailing ships (which is why they were still used).

[proviisori]

Actually the reason, to use galleys in stead of galleons or ships of the line, is that they can be used in shallow water in archipelagos.

Galleons have much larger displacement so they would get stuck and they could not move as freely as galleys.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by wardhali
in the conquest victory movie, it apears that a knight moves two spaces dirwectly forward, a move illegal in chess. (I am not sure about other moves)

Ooh, well spotted...

[johnmcd]

Originally posted by wardhali
in the conquest victory movie, it apears that a knight moves two spaces dirwectly forward, a move illegal in chess. (I am not sure about other moves)

Yet more AI cheating

[TheArsenal]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man


This drives me crazy - especially on Huge maps. I'll spend 5 minutes hunting for the marauding enemy unit, only to realize that it's a Caravel cruising (mostly)harmlessly along my coast.

It would be nice if there was an option to have the red circles persist until clicking on them.

On the mini-map the enemy shows up as a tiny red dot. I do not recall if that dot remains longer than the pop up, but I’m pretty sure its there for the entire turn.

[Jaybe]

IF I remember an enemy threat notice after setting productions for the turn, then I'll go to my F5, select the enemy civ(s), then select "All Units." This works quite well in pointing out where it is.

(For those not familiar with it, click on the F5 minimap to close the F5 and go to that location).

If all the messages were persistent over the map, it would be terrible. For some messages to be persistent wouldn't work because what we are interested in vary with the situation. It DOES help to be familiar with the message log and the F5.

[SebP]

The german version of the power graph is entitled "Elektrizität". Believe it or not, i only figured out now that this is actually the power graph