All those pop-ups.... how to kill them?

[Robert]

When I get further in my games, and the AI needs 5-10 minutes to finish it's turns, I most of the time start programming on my genial websites/ surfing around / reading a book / etc. etc.

I wish I could just open another window, do my things, and get back to civ once in a while, to execute my actions. But most of the time I get back into the civ-screen, only finding out that nation X has declared war to nation Y.

As if I care.

WHY WHY WHY all those pop-ups?
How can I get rid of them. Just after I press 'return', no more worries, untill something REALLY important happens.

[Last Conformist]

Check out the preferences. I don't off-hand exactly how much you can turn off, but "Reduced MP Pop-Ups" or whatever it's called should be a start.

[Robert]

the preferences don't give any option to get rid of the 'X has declared war to Y' pop-ups.

[Kaos XIII]

I hate that too!

INstead, At the end of the AI's turn they should have a little box with all of the useless stuff that happened during the AI's turn.

The pop up should only be used if another civ has declared war on you. and that;s it. (my grammar ROX!)

Civ4 programmers are you LISTENING!!!1!

[DrSpike]

You can subscribe to ApolytonPLUS.

[Aqualung71]

Don't you mean ConquestsPLUS Doc?

[DrSpike]

Oh didn't you know.......ApolytonPLUS blocks the in game popups as well.

[Aqualung71]

Ah yes of course, I forgot.....now, where's that credit card got to......?

[Robert]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Oh didn't you know.......ApolytonPLUS blocks the in game popups as well.

ok, I'll subscribe to polyplus, and if the in-game pop-ups won't cease, I'll let you pay my polyplus account back

[DrSpike]

Can't you just click 'ok' a few times? I don't have much patience and it doesn't bother me much.

[Harovan]

DrSpike is back!

I don't even know who this Doc was.

[DrSpike]

Like stepping into old comfortable slippers.

[Robert]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Can't you just click 'ok' a few times? I don't have much patience and it doesn't bother me much.

My life does suck, but not so much that I sit 10 minutes in front of my screen, doing nothing while waiting for pop-ups to occur.

[DrSpike]

10 minutes per AI turn? Did you tweak all the AI moves options?

Besides if you know it's 10 minutes you can alt-tab out and read what you want, then come back to the popups.

[Robert]

Yeah, I tweaded the AI. I just like it to play huge games.

Besides if you know it's 10 minutes you can alt-tab out and read what you want, then come back to the popups.

yeah, come back after 10 minutes, to find out that after 1 minute the AI came with some pop-up, so 9 whole minutes the computer has done nothing.

I want to alt-tab away, and get back to the game, to get along with my own game.