How does anyone play this game?

**Guyus Germanicus** · 07-25-2007, 12:49

Getting ready to go in to work, Hoplite, but wanted to just add -

Your problems do sound as if they are predominantly AI. I haven't encountered the quirkiness yet in my own game experiences. I would hate to think that you have to do a lot of manual programming fixes, like those mentioned above, to reign in the problem. But whatever it takes, I guess? I never use the timer myself.

I do remember that I had encountered some show stoppers when I first bought Civ IV. They had a memory leak in the first release of that game that would irritatingly throw you completely out of the game at unpredictable times. Their first major patch fixed that for the most part, but I still ran into problems in the late game occasionally when the campaign board got really busy. And I never could use huge maps. I haven't installed Civ IV on my laptop yet.

No doubt M2TW's campaign board gets very busy as the game progresses. And at the harder settings, the game designers have made it so the AI controlled factions have more freedom and can play more aggressively. So roving Popes and adventurous Byzantine armies make some sense.

Even so, it sounds like there are some definite quirks in the AI still requiring CA's attention, and my earlier suggestions may not be relevant. Hang in there.

**icek** · 07-25-2007, 13:06

to make you happier i will show you a picture and give you advice.
"remeber when you play spanish to first capture saragossa or else..."

**ReiseReise** · 07-25-2007, 14:55

The AI did this to me the other day playing as Danes (although it didn't ruin my campaign). Did you try loading and replaying a few turns? Don't know if it would work but I like to save every 3-4 turns in case something really stupid happens. In any case, this is the ONLY purpose of the battle timer. Stupid idea really ("Ok men, we've taken the walls, fought through the streets, lost half our forces and there are only 4 militia in the city center, but we've been fighting for 45 minutes and i'm getting hungry so pack it up boys, we're going home" [This happened to me once in RTW, but the remaining enemy died about 3 seconds after the timer hit 0:00 and it gave me the win])

**pike master** · 07-25-2007, 15:10

in answer to the OPs main question. you must first have a compliant computer, then when turned on push eject button on or cdrom drive and insert the software( the software is on the shiny disk with king richard on the label.)

once placed in the cd roms drives tray give the tray a nudge and it will close, from there the computer will guide you through the rest. also as you seem very confused perhaps you should set the advisor mode on high.

**Hoplite7** · 07-25-2007, 18:41

Originally Posted by mad cat mech

in answer to the OPs main question. you must first have a compliant computer, then when turned on push eject button on or cdrom drive and insert the software( the software is on the shiny disk with king richard on the label.)

once placed in the cd roms drives tray give the tray a nudge and it will close, from there the computer will guide you through the rest. also as you seem very confused perhaps you should set the advisor mode on high.

I've played since RTW, I always disable advice. I don't need someone to tell me that I'm charging my calvary directly into spearmen.

Anyways: thanks for replies everyone... trying again as Egypt... hope no epic battles are ruined by AI.