My last thread here: Can someone tell me what is the best way to uninstall Civ3?

[Capt Dizle]

The last time I did it, I had a mess and had to go into the registery. Is there a free utility I can download that will get rid of this monster once and for all time?

[yin26]

http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/regclean.htm

Always happy to help people get rid of useless beta software. Play Europa Universalis 2!

[ACooper]

Just put your computer back in the box and take it to the store you bought it from. Maybe trade it in for a Playstation or something. This will probably suit your individual needs best.


Goodbye

[Capt Dizle]

LOL@ yin, I couldn't help noticing when I tried your link that it had a link, along with several useful looking ones like Popup Stopper and Spyware Removal that it also had a link entitled:

MEET RUSSIAN WOMEN

Yin, there is a pervert streak in you!

Cooper, you I won't miss. I think if Firaxis rammed the Civ3 box a foot up your arse that you would thank them for introducing you to the realm of multiple orgasms.

[ACooper]

You always have a way with words j/t.

[Solver]

I see Russian women each day, anyone evies me?


Yin plays EU 2?

[Velociryx]

JT! You can't go!

Don't you realize that the gravitational pull of 'poly is such that even if you WANNA leave, you'll be back?



-=Vel=-

[Cookie Monster]

Though I don't think I've ever conversed with you on these forums I have read many of your posts. I will miss your entertaining thoughts JT.

[Capt Dizle]

Vel,

I will go to the BHG forum and terrorize BR. I hate RTS. I am really mad now because in my haste to delete Civ3 from my HD I deleted SMAX instead (Firaxis directory, ack) and now will have to reinstall it for the one SMAC PBEM I am doing.

jt

[Immortal Wombat]

The Add/Remove programs list works best I find.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
The Add/Remove programs list works best I find.

Same

[Velociryx]

Know what you meant about clickfest RTS games...the only one I've EVER played that I found to my liking was EU...wow...good luck and godspeed bro....and don't lose touch!

-=Vel=-

[yin26]

Yin plays EU 2?

And loving it!

[Capt Dizle]

Yin, did you play EU. I did and I just don't think EU2 is going to offer enough for me to go back. What do you think?

Is there any possibility of realistic MP with EU2?

[yin26]

I can't speak to the MP in EU(2). I can say I never really feel the need since the AI (unless you purposely exploit a hole or two) is quite capable. Yes, I did play EU and initially deleted it. However, as a number of people whom I respect goaded me into re-installing, I gave it another go.

The most jarring difference is that EU(2) takes a deliberate -- as in seemingly slow and boring -- pace. That's intially why I uninstalled. That and the lousy (o.k., 'abstracted') combat model turned me off.

But what I realized is that there is a strategic depth to EU(2) that no similar game has ever matched. There are so many logical/historical checks and balances to everything that you **gasp** actually have to think and plan carefully! Imagine!

I wrote at some length in another thread here why I feel Civ3 is just a buggy screen-saver by comparison, but I'll boil it down to this: In Civ3, it's pathetically easy to win unless you let the comp simply cheat you into defeat (is Diety really a strategic game?). Dimplomacy doesn't matter. War is inevitable no matter what the box says, so just kill everybody as fast as you can. If you can expand your cities, you'll slop your way into victory. Dull. Tedious. Sleep-inducing.

With EU(2), you can and will get your a$$ handed to you for going on a war path without a long term plan that includes allies, relgious considerations, troops at home to deal with uprisings, perhaps even war taxes and some loans ... and in the end, the bastard on the other end of your sword might hold out against you long enough to let winter set in, killing 80% of your seige troops sitting outside a fortress that refused to fall before the first snow.

Yes, EU(2) has a plodding pace but it is punctuated by moments of sheer intensity as your empire rises or crumbles entirely ... often because of missteps you took in any number of, at the time, seemingly trivial areas you didn't consider carefully a few hours earlier. "Perhaps that royal marriage would have kept me in the game?"

I take it back: Compared to that, Civ3 isn't even a good screen-saver.