Be Excellent To Each Other

the problem is not that portugal owned some of the new world "at some point", but the fact that it was the 1st colonial power and had at one point the largest empire. Not to mention some of the most well known sailors (like Vasco da Gama and Magellan) were portuguese.

Yes, portugal had almost no importance in america, and that's the reason that's not included in the games. And you should know it, you bunch of americanized sell-outs.

the problem is not that portugal owned some of the new world "at some point", but the fact that it was the 1st colonial power and had at one point the largest empire. Not to mention some of the most well known sailors (like Vasco da Gama and Magellan) were portuguese.

*chants* You're just a small part of Spain, small part of Spain...

What about Barthelowna?

-edit- I suppose they want to be Catalonia again.

rather than tediously going over whether they should have included Portugal once again

Back to the game, rather than tediously going over whether they should have included Portugal once again, does anyone know whether this constitutes more than a scenario? Have they done a decent job of the population mechanics, trading, and founding fathers?

It's a standalone add-on pack(!)

when? where?

I was told it's because each of the 4 nations had a distinct advantage in one of the 4 facets of the game. Any additional nations would effectively be copies of one of the existing 4.

If we had included a fifth nation, we probably would have chosen Portugal. Although Portugal's influence was larger than the Netherland's, Portugal fell under Spanish rule for much of the time covered by the game and its policies and circumstances were very similar to Spain's.

The reason given in the game's manual was that the Portugueses would have played too similarly to the Spanish. I quote:



The advantages of not having a tiny room - all your miscellaneous tat is basically left in plain sight.

Also, has anyone seen that John Adams HBO miniseries? Sounds good and has Paul Giamatti. .

It's quite cheap if you download it?

Turin: Were you playing the dutch?
If so, that might explain why the prices never changed.

I played it for a good many hours last night and the game is currently up to 1621 or something.(120 before I "must" declare" independance). I will agree that many of the founding farthers and downright shit, especially the ones that "give" you a certain number of things. Why would I want 3 indentured servants, when I can get a 25% increase on something?

In my game, production has suddenly become exponential. I'm shipping off lots of goods per turn and using that cash to buy lumberjacks, iron workers, farmers and carpenters, all ready to start cracking on the Confederate Navy. A few places already have the necessary docklands and infrastructure.

Additionally, the AI civs are a bit crap. I think the french got wiped out in seconds, because they never materialised. The english are stuck in the tundras of newfoundland and the spanish? Well, they set up 3 towns and had down with it. Then I bought a privateer and destroyed 4 of their caravels over the course of the game and eventually put them out of their misery and invaded the fools. I then did the same to the english, but I couldn't be bothered to invade them. Still, they can see there is a privateer there : I've accidently had him on sleep for 2 turns now. Why are you happily sailing 2 caravels laden with silver right past it? WHY?! WHY?! All that happens is I blow them both up and you spend the next 100 turns selling crap to the indians so that you may buy another.

The indians are also quite interesting in that they all quite like me, especially as I sold them all horses early one (though I've yet to see them use them). Additionally, why aren't they warring with each other? Additionally, I've stopped trading with the indians because they all want things like coats, and are only willing to give me 6gp per, whereas Amsterdamn laps them up at 10.

A humourous point is I chose the Western Hemisphere scenarion, and the game ended up putting the nidians and the aztecs in new englang and then sioux in peru The others were roughly where they should be.

I've only just started pumping out people from my university, but I already don't like the system :/

I'd be interested to hear the developers decisions behind the founding farther choices. More often than not I just pressed "no". They were utterly useless and just ment it would take longer to get Gerogie Washington and co.

Can anyone give a n00b like me some decent tips to get me started?

I made the error of assuming that a machine that would run Civ4 would run Col. Unfortunately not, as it appears they've done some graphics tweaking. Ah well.

Turn down the graffix?
RElatedly, is it just me or is GalCiv2: Dark Avatar a bit more processor and GFX card -hungry than the vanilla GalCiv2?

Graphics on bottom, doesn't help. Every scrap of terrain is white. Looks like Civ4:Lapland.

GC2:DA doesn't seem noticably hungrier to me. But then after the first game, I never played vanilla GalCiv2, because so much is fixed in DA.