|
Post by whiplash on Sept 3, 2006 14:03:34 GMT -5
10 Pages about brainless people ;D
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on May 10, 2006 15:57:42 GMT -5
Part of the challenge in C3C team games is to figure out what's going on for the whole map without it being displayed right at your face.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on May 8, 2006 20:48:18 GMT -5
I prefered the "bananas for brains" analogy.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on May 8, 2006 20:35:45 GMT -5
There will always be players who think that because they have invested 1,000 hours in order to beat the AI in SP that they have mastered the game. They venture into MP and think that they know it all. These are the same types of people who play a Tom Cruise role in real life and are blown away by somebody who understands the real world.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 30, 2006 8:11:54 GMT -5
That really doesn't happen in CIV3 anymore. The CIV3 crowd has a handful of players who cannot connect to certain other players. Also there are a few who can only connect if they are the first one in the setup screen (slot 2). The players with the connection quirks have learned what to do.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on May 29, 2006 7:53:30 GMT -5
I believe I posted previously that the "rule" of report to the highest rank first works in every instance other than the numbers 3 and 4 ranks.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on May 10, 2006 11:17:01 GMT -5
I think the only time it doesn't work right is the 1/3/4 combination. Other times report to highest first works best.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 28, 2006 18:42:27 GMT -5
You don't trust my answer?
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 28, 2006 14:51:32 GMT -5
It can matter significantly in player ranking, especially if a highly ranked player is making the reports. There really are few valid excuses for not reporting immediatly. Highly ranked players should especially feel an obligation to do so.
If #1 loses to #20 the winning player should achieve rank #10. But if #1 waits 24 hours to report the winning player may slide to rank #32 during that time and only climb to rank #16 when the report finally comes.
The sequence of the reports can affect the ranks as well. Highly ranked players should report in sequence to the higher ranked winners.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 19, 2006 13:16:36 GMT -5
:::Whiplash if the issues between yourself and civ3 management resurface on these boards, your posting priveledges here shall be removed. This is a board for Civ4 for those who play Civ4. Not for Ex-TD's who do not.::: Avogadro I don't even remember what I said, but I'm pretty sure it was inocuous. What are the censorship rules here?
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 18, 2006 19:34:59 GMT -5
:::Whiplash if the issues between yourself and civ3 management resurface on these boards, your posting priveledges here shall be removed. This is a board for Civ4 for those who play Civ4. Not for Ex-TD's who do not.:::
Avogadro
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 17, 2006 14:38:11 GMT -5
Why was all that effort expended on new game features that no one asked for yet basic connectivity is still bugged? Features don't matter if people can't connect.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 15, 2006 0:00:22 GMT -5
Whiplash im somewhat confussed, you say you want to play civ4 MP. You say you want to be part of this ladder, but you seem to have a totally diffrent tone on the C3C forum. You want democracy, you want active admins, and what ever else you have demanded. This ladders admins are WAY less active, and it is by no means a democracy (But the people on this ladder dont mind), so this is where the confussion kicks in. I wonder if you only jump on the band wagon once the wheel are in motion? This is by no means an attack, just a confussed person. Well, I'll attempt to eliminate the confusion. I have no "political" agenda to advance here. I just want to play the game. I am just extremely frustrated. The issues that exist on the Civ3 ladders are of no relevancy here. The reason that I have chimed in now has nothing to do with anything happening in the C3C arena; the reason is that the CIV4 patch has been released and I hear that the connectivity problems have not been fixed. I would very much like to participate in this game in the MP environment and have experienced nothing but frustration. If you care to search back to my prior posts you will see that I have never been able to connect through MP. This is the case even though I have hardware far more advanced than the "recommended system". I think CanuckSoldier will verify that. While I posted regularly some months ago about this situation, I just remained silent and patient waiting for the "final" patch. This has happened now and I hear that the connectivity issues have not been fixed. After all of that time waiting and being silent, it appears that I still will not be able to enjoy the game. It's got nothing at all to do with whatever is happening at the C3C community; just coincidental in timing.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 14, 2006 22:14:20 GMT -5
All of this waiting for the long promised patch and the same connection issues still unresolved. I'm thinking this game is dead for MP'ers anyway. It is for me anyway.
From what I could see the number one complaint posted around here was connectivity. And what do we get? 493 changes to game features but no solution to the number one problem. This after nearly 5 months. And we hear of them working on an XP they want us to buy. For those of you who want to continue waiting, can I interest you in some land I have for sale in Florida?
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 13, 2006 21:12:34 GMT -5
Still buggy as ever. First game had retire bug that caused the game to split. Not good, but thats' the danger of testing with a small closed group who always have good connections. Oh, nuts!
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 5, 2006 17:23:35 GMT -5
I heard that 2 months ago.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Mar 31, 2006 10:47:58 GMT -5
tried to email support civ4 (firaxis) support today - there s no support for europe - just for USA and canada - thats what i call nonsupport - I guess the support for NA is just because of much stricter laws - they fear to have to py money without support ... The "support" there isn't worth anything anyway. So, you're really not missing anything, Tommy. This is very sad though. Wasn't MP really hyped in the prerelease propaganda from Take2? Wasn't there a rather large, solid group of C3C ladder players involved in play-testing with the aim of making MP really work? (thank you very much, btw) Haven't we been hearing about a "final" patch for months? Now we hear about an XP. It's been mentioned that patches don't make money, XP's do. I guess they think that delivering what was promised doesn't make money either.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Mar 30, 2006 16:19:53 GMT -5
I suggest that your ire is misdirected. Firaxis is just the code factory. They do what Take2 hires them to do. If Take2 tells them to drop work on the patch and get busy on the XP that is what they will do.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Apr 27, 2006 21:46:43 GMT -5
I didn't see Fried mention any names at all perhaps you guys are a little too sensitive? These forums are overly negative compared to what the C3P forums were like, I haven't even figured out why only 10% of the ladder posts here, but the negatively certainly doesn't help. Yes the game has problems, but PTW/C3C was and is worse and we still managed a thriving community there. As to what we do as Admins, you can rest assured that we represent the MP community to the best of our ability, to Firaxis and any other organization, just because we don't post about every minor detail doesn't mean that the dev's do not know what is going on, I appreciate what Loki and MMV are trying to do, but they are hardly the only people working to change MP for the better. It's unlikely that the basic peer to peer mechanics of Civ4 are going to chance and we have to assume that there will always be problems with the game. We will have to learn to deal with and over come them. It's either that or you can decide to dump MP until Civ5 comes out For me I'd rather try and build a MP community despite the difficulties just like we did for C3C. My 2 cents. CS Well, I was around at the time and I totally disagree that C3C was "worse". PTW was buggy from the point of view of game mechanics; but not connectivity. C3C has some connectivity issues but nothing like what I'm reading about here. But, like others have said; "this is 2006" this should not be happening. This is the 4th generation of the game; things should be getting better, not worse. Patches should not be taking us backwards. I think to say that the ladder community should "suck it up" and make the best of it is really too much to ask. I respect the admin's and beta testers who invested much to try to make this work; but we are now seeing paying customers being asked to be beta testers after the fact. Sure, the "negativity doesn't help"; but we didn't get what we paid for; and there is a limit to how much frustration people can endure.
|
|
|
Post by whiplash on Mar 28, 2006 9:42:12 GMT -5
I know little about CIV4 so maybe I have no business posting here. On the C3C ladder much interest and activity were sparked by user created mods. C3C has a very user-friendly GUI editor for scenario creation. This is lacking in CIV4 as mods are only possible by programming or file edits. At least that's my understanding.
|
|