First Impressions

[Seneca]

Originally posted by Ralf


Please, give them a brake.

ALL new software ALWAYS have some few bugs. By comparison; "Europa Universalis" didnt even start up the first time I booted it. That, I didnt like.

Yeah - a few patches and it'll be fine.

As for 700MB, that sounds good to me - don't know why, I'm just shallow and like games with loads of stuff...

[manofthehour]

The AI sounds great. What diffuculty are you playing at and how hard is it? Sreenshoots whould be nice.

[Admiral PJ]

To oldtimer and bugkillers

a Crash? it has to be icqs fault icq seems to take up tonnes of memory and mucks up.
Hopefully we won't need too big a patch, i'm sure some bugs will pop up.
Nice to see you again Old timer - lots of rivers is pretty realistic, please tell me you can travel up river with some kind of boat at least. Rivers in real life slow down troop movements a lot, Its probably an advantage for defenders, even heavy tanks (maybe more so) will have difficulty reaching your cities, unless theres bridges available.
I'd appreciate your help oldtimer on that Mantra project.. i'll email you in private.

AddyPJ

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
A crash already? I must admit, that is a bit ominous...let us hope it is just a one off!

Yes I just found it myself... dont right click on the leader picture on the diplomacy screen


First impressions? AI is pretty darn good. I dont have any wonders and ive lost 2 cities. Btw Im on turn 63.

But I cant figure out how trade works and there are so many bleedin info screens for micromanagement. Hey you can also enslave workers


Also I think it takes too long to build improvements and units. Atleast early on.....


Oh yes- Barbarians are everywhere!

[faded glory]

btw..to put the controversy to rest. The interface is extremely annoying.

[albiedamned]

First, regarding rivers, my poor Greeks have none in sight. I can't irrigate anything! So whoever posted that rivers are everywhere, that may be the case in his game but not mine.

As for the interface, it's not bad, just different. I've been playing for about 90 minutes now, and I'm starting to get the hang of it.

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Faboba
First in my defense I'd like to remind you all I really do love Firaxis and their new-born.

However the large savegame size gives two bad points.

1 : It's going to be a pain in the ass saving games. Probably take a minute or two.
2 : It's not going to be easy doing progressive/dynastic games anymore. I mean it takes me a good 10 minutes to get a file that size on my 56.

Just FYI, saving games is really fast (at least as I've noticed). The files aren't compressed, which is what makes saving them extremely quick. With WinZip on maximum compression, my savegames usually compress down to a couple hundred Kb.

Dan

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by faded glory
btw..to put the controversy to rest. The interface is extremely annoying.

Details please. Do you use hotkeys?

[Jason Beaudoin]

Dan... what are you doing up so late?! Shouldn't you be at home resting after a long day at work?

How does it feel not being raked over the coals for information?

[tmarcl]

Originally posted by albiedamned
I have it!!! I got it at Electronics Boutique in Laurel Mall, in case anyone in the Baltimore/Washington area is interested. I called around beforehand, and not every EB in the area has it (for example, EB at Columbia Mall said they wouldn't have it until Wednesday).

Ugh, don't remind me. As soon as I heard other people were getting their's early, I called Stop & Save at Arundel Mills Mall where I'd pre-ordered the game. They won't be getting it until Wednesday either. I *knew* I should've ordered from EB!!!


Marc

[Dan Magaha FIRAXIS]

Originally posted by Jason Beaudoin
Dan... what are you doing up so late?! Shouldn't you be at home resting after a long day at work?

Well, what I *should* be doing is studying for a Network Security mid-term. But the ECB mode of DES is so thrilling I could barely contain myself.

How does it feel not being raked over the coals for information?

I dunno.... par for the course?


Dan

[dasaecorvic]

love love love

I love you guys, you are making my wait until 16th November less painful.

Greetings to all of you and specially tks to those, like Andrew1999 and others that have been posting lot of information in the last hours.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Pembleton


Details please. Do you use hotkeys?

no havent found any yet.I havent read the manual tho. Its not my game but I might ask to borruw the manual and read it on the squatter tommorrow morning.

[Green Giant]

Faded Glory, any specific reason the interface is annoying?

[Skanky Burns]

Of course the interface will be annoying if you dont understand it

albiedamned says its not annoying, so theres still hope