Multiplayer Strategy Guide

[Mathemagician]

Originally posted by blackice


Move one square and launch, but your still toast as they attack first now, unless you have 3 to one odds in your favor. You can move to other cities and launch. All these things create slow downs and losses that is the idea, especially later in the game.

If the aforementioned is done right, even ten major trade, production, wonder, science and or armed cities going down can cause a 10 or more turn delay. That factored in be it ahead or behind, you have an edge or the equalizer.

what are you talking about here ?

[Mathemagician]

question: is it true that barbarians only get 'created' on unobserved tiles ?

note:
i believe the 'nest egg' of money you need at the end of each turn to prevent the wages to be cut or single cities to riot, is dependent on (equal to ?) the maintenance cost only and not the wages projection for next turn.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Mathemagician
question: is it true that barbarians only get 'created' on unobserved tiles ?

note:
i believe the 'nest egg' of money you need at the end of each turn to prevent the wages to be cut or single cities to riot, is dependent on (equal to ?) the maintenance cost only and not the wages projection for next turn.

Math

when you say "created"..I'm not sure..but if you open a ruin and it has a barbarian (s) in it, they will appear in the tiles you see.

As for money, you take away maintainence and support for units if i remember correctly.

I know that sometimes when I run close on a turn, I lower science and then have less money coming out of the coffer.


Hope this helps!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[Mathemagician]

hi troll
1) does your CTP run again ? can we play on ?
2) with "created" i mean the randomly appearing barbarians, not those hidden in ruins.

[david42one]

Originally posted by Mathemagician
hi troll
1) does your CTP run again ? can we play on ?

I, too, am awaiting a turn from the great troll. Don't let the fear stop you, Troll!

2) with "created" i mean the randomly appearing barbarians, not those hidden in ruins.

I think you're right about that, I've certaintly never seen a barb spawn in the middle of my territory, even when the setting is raging hordes

[Grandpa Troll]

I have no more XP but have installed WIN98SE and all seems to be going great after an ititial glitch.

I have saved folders, I will reinstall the folder to my computer and see if they are compatible with 98.

as for fear..yes..be very afraid of Troll..he lurks where once his shadow dwelt!

Ok..Ill see ya later just taking a moment to post!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[Mathemagician]

it seems i recently dont even get messages anymore when my cities or units get nuked.
does anyone know where to get that patch that tells you if you get bombarded and stuff ?

[david42one]

Originally posted by Mathemagician
it seems i recently dont even get messages anymore when my cities or units get nuked.
does anyone know where to get that patch that tells you if you get bombarded and stuff ?

ya, that would be nice. along the same lines, I've seen some people that get a message every time a city grows, saying "city grew". that would be nice, does anybody know how to make that happen?

[Keygen]

As the city grow messages goes it is done by SLIC but I can't remember the code right now - will have to check it out.

[TheBirdMan]

AFAIR that is part of the PowerSlic 2.0 and if you install the MedMod 4.13 by Wes W, then you have all you need.

But I THINK the game has to be started by you (or one, who also have the mod installed) to get all information the SLIC-code has added to the game (I think - I am not sure at all).

[Mathemagician]

Originally posted by TheBirdMan
AFAIR that is part of the PowerSlic 2.0 and if you install the MedMod 4.13 by Wes W, then you have all you need.

But I THINK the game has to be started by you (or one, who also have the mod installed) to get all information the SLIC-code has added to the game (I think - I am not sure at all).

so what do i need to install ?
and how does something like MedMod affect my regular PBEM / SP / MP games ?

[Mathemagician]

i have just installed power slic 2.00, and i think i followed the instructions quite correclty, and now i get 10-15 syntax error messages whenever i open a turn.

does someone know what i can do about that ?

[TheBirdMan]

Could it be......

Is the value for DebugSlic= in the file "default folder\ctp_program\ctp\userprofile.txt" a YES or a NO?

It should be a YES.

[Mathemagician]

now that you asked i realize it was a no. but i remember having set it to yes.
now i set it to yes again and the game obviously changed it back to no.

what can i do about that ?
(yes, i saved the file )

[Mathemagician]

now the program doesnt change it, but i still get error messages.