New Staff Member, Civ4 Site Update

[Thomas Hobbes]

Congratulations Diadem .

Russian Cossacks don't replace Knights but Cavalry, and I think either the 18 strength for Cossacks or the 15 for Cavalry, respectively, is wrong.
These are the two errors I found after a quick glance over the units page.

[Solver]

18 for Cossacks and 15 for Cavalry is correct, as of 1.61.

[Diadem]

Yeah. For vanilla civ 18 for cossacks is correct. Combined with 50% vs. mounted units that's an awful lot of power on a single unit. That's why they changed them for warlords.

But you are right, they do replace cavalry not knights. Fixed now.

[LordShiva]

Congratulations

Two questions, though:

1. Who is this Diadem fellow?
2. Does he have PCR and banning powers?

[notyoueither]

:beer:

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Metaliturtle
W00t Diadem!!

The Dutch are taking over!!

[MikeH]

I mostly don't visit the front page because it's really messy and hard to find anything!

I eventually found the civilopedia under CivIV/Information, but I missed it the first time. Should at least just be linked as a menu item from the Civ IV page.

[Diadem]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Congratulations

Two questions, though:

1. Who is this Diadem fellow?

Diadem is Diadem is Diadem. A more fundamental answer to this question can not be comprehended by mere mortals. You need at least the level of Advanced God to understand.

2. Does he have PCR and banning powers?

PCR? Polymerase chain reaction? Ehm, no, I have never been particullary interested in that

Banning rights? Well I'll haven't found a ban button yet. But then again, I haven't looked yet. So I dunno. Want me to try on your account?


More seriously: I was appointed to add content to the frontpage, not to mod the forum. So you can sleep savely.

[Diadem]

Originally posted by MikeH
I mostly don't visit the front page because it's really messy and hard to find anything!

I eventually found the civilopedia under CivIV/Information, but I missed it the first time. Should at least just be linked as a menu item from the Civ IV page.

Yeah, you are absolutely right. The current layout is not very good. The best parts of the site are hardest to find.

A new layout is being worked on, afaik. Personally I think a lot of those links on the front page can move up one level, and then we can move some other interesting stuff down a level. But I don't know what the big boys will come up with

[Solver]

So you can sleep savely.

No, staff members don't say that. Especially not to LordShiva. The correct answer, Diadem, is: "I don't have banning or PCR powers, but I am like another pair of eyes for Solver, whose hands are always itching for his rod" .

[Zoid]

*Zoid tries to delete mental image of Solver and his itching rod

[Solver]

Funny coming from a person whose post in the picture thread scared the living daylights out of the next 20 people to open it .

[Zoid]

Hey!

Ehrm...which one?

[Solver]

The one called, uhmm, "A photoportrait of Zoid the old, scary and angry (or hungover)" .

[Zoid]

Oh, that one

But as I recall it was as an answer to Nikolais equally scary "mad christian norwegian"