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[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Is XP Pro more stable than XP Home? I haven't had any large problems with XP so far, but now have the opportunity (through a fiance at a new grad school) to purchase XP pro for 5 bucks (also Office XP Professional for 5 )

Hopefully they will continue to tweak the issues that cause the game to slowdown, in PTW. I can really tell a difference with the latest patch, not perfect, but better.

hi ,

yes it is

the upgrade not , but the full new pack is very stable

BUT and this is to all windows users who dont know it yet , microsoft has found some large problems , there is a new update to toggle the problem , ...

yes all there OS since 98
and browsers

have a nice day

[asleepathewheel]

I know there is a max number of cities: 512

Is there a max number of units allowed? I think I remember thiere was a limit in at least ToT if not the others.

Has anyone reached this? I have reached the max cities several times, but have never topped out the units.

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
I know there is a max number of cities: 512

Is there a max number of units allowed? I think I remember thiere was a limit in at least ToT if not the others.

Has anyone reached this? I have reached the max cities several times, but have never topped out the units.

hi ,

well there are "human players" who have 2500 units , together with an AI that has a total of about 4000 , ....

so there is no actuall limit , ...

however when using the editor and letting everyone start with 500 units the game chrashes a couple thousand years later , for no reason , ....could this be because of the units

an answer from Firaxis would be nice here

have a nice day

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

well there are "human players" who have 2500 units , together with an AI that has a total of about 4000 , ....

so there is no actuall limit , ...

however when using the editor and letting everyone start with 500 units the game chrashes a couple thousand years later , for no reason , ....could this be because of the units

an answer from Firaxis would be nice here

have a nice day

Cool

I'm glad there is either no limit or a huge number, I could see that taken advantage of pretty easily, and that would be more harmful than taking advantage of the city limit.

[Panag]

hi ,

there is a limit on the total amount of units you start with , each type of unit with a max of 25

have a nice day

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by panag
hi ,

there is a limit on the total amount of units you start with , each type of unit with a max of 25

have a nice day

Thats unfortunate. It would be interesting and/or fun to give each player 100 or so warriors and cut out the tech tree and see who wins. Similar to a game in Red Alert, low tech, units only battle. woudl be a sweet option.

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Thats unfortunate. It would be interesting and/or fun to give each player 100 or so warriors and cut out the tech tree and see who wins. Similar to a game in Red Alert, low tech, units only battle. woudl be a sweet option.

hi ,

well you can start with 25 warriors and 25 spearman , etc , ....

however you can adjust the number of starting units also in the editor , so many of type this and so , together with the scenario ones , ....

this way you could do it

have a nice night

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Is XP Pro more stable than XP Home? I haven't had any large problems with XP so far, but now have the opportunity (through a fiance at a new grad school) to purchase XP pro for 5 bucks (also Office XP Professional for 5 )

Hopefully they will continue to tweak the issues that cause the game to slowdown, in PTW. I can really tell a difference with the latest patch, not perfect, but better.

Kernel wise, Pro and Home are the same. Pro was designed for those who came from the NT/2K OSs, while Home is ment for those who came from 98SE/ME.

Home is basicly a crippled Pro, a Windows ME with a Win2K kernal if you will. If you have a home network, then you MUST use Pro, else you like a crippled network.
Pro is basicly a Windows 2k with a 98SE enviroment for 3D/Game programs. Although most games these days can work well on Win2k (such as Q3), it lacks support for DOS/Win95 programs.

I recommend Pro for those reasons, and with the fact that it comes with a wide range of tools to help diagnose problems, such as Events Viewer.

98SE is still the OS of choice for a gamer platform, and for those who have a CPU that's slower then a P3 500MHz and 128 or less RAM. However, if you are more then 500MHz and at least 256MB RAM and a decent size HD, then I would suggest upgrading.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Thats unfortunate. It would be interesting and/or fun to give each player 100 or so warriors and cut out the tech tree and see who wins. Similar to a game in Red Alert, low tech, units only battle. woudl be a sweet option.

That would be great, but how do you suppose you cut out the tech tree? I've tried that before... Civ3 don't like it.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Thrawn05



That would be great, but how do you suppose you cut out the tech tree? I've tried that before... Civ3 don't like it.

Well, even if you didn't cut out the tech tree, couldn't you take out all the units that they grant? Of course, the AI would still research, thus slowing it down.

What I was more thinking was:

tiny map

16 civs

100-200 warriors each

sounds fun

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Thrawn05
98SE is still the OS of choice for a gamer platform, and for those who have a CPU that's slower then a P3 500MHz and 128 or less RAM. However, if you are more then 500MHz and at least 256MB RAM and a decent size HD, then I would suggest upgrading.

Any problems upgrading from home to professional? should I get the full edition or the upgrade?

I have a 1.7ghz, 384 rdram (wish those prices would drop), should be ok. need to get more ram to run the game and other tasks faster

[Panag]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Well, even if you didn't cut out the tech tree, couldn't you take out all the units that they grant? Of course, the AI would still research, thus slowing it down.

What I was more thinking was:

tiny map

16 civs

100-200 warriors each

sounds fun

hi ,

it goes , no problem , BUT , unlike in red alert C&C tibsun you cant move your units in groups , ....

in C&C tibsun you just click with the mouse and open a "group" window , ALL the units in the window shall got to Y or attack target X , even if target X is on the move and dissapears out of vision , ....

have a nice day

[neonext]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel



Any problems upgrading from home to professional? should I get the full edition or the upgrade?

I have a 1.7ghz, 384 rdram (wish those prices would drop), should be ok. need to get more ram to run the game and other tasks faster

i shudder every time i hear someone suggesting Win 95/98/98SE/ME as an OS. Gamer or not, once you live with XP there is no going back

[Willem]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

"fully patched" , ..........

as XP , well its good but still needs so much work , ....

oh btw , since mac X came out , running 24 / 24 , 7 / 7 , and still not a chrash , now that is something stable , ....

have a nice day

Mac's OS has always been more stable than Windows, though I hear OS X is pretty buggy itself. Don't know from personal experience, just something I've heard.

[Willem]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel


Is XP Pro more stable than XP Home? I haven't had any large problems with XP so far, but now have the opportunity (through a fiance at a new grad school) to purchase XP pro for 5 bucks (also Office XP Professional for 5 )

Hopefully they will continue to tweak the issues that cause the game to slowdown, in PTW. I can really tell a difference with the latest patch, not perfect, but better.

The Pro versions of Windows are always more stable than the consumer versions. That's why they cost so much more. It's geared to businesses, who need something that's reliable.