Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: HartLord on January 24, 2015, 09:22:55 AM
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The icons for the planets and orbits and all that are getting cut off, but not the UI.
(http://i.imgur.com/MCIffVB.png)
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I think its a problem caused by running something else first that changes screen resolution. For me it always happen if I quit Civ straight to desktop instead of to main menu and than quit. I fix it by rerunning civ and quitting the second way - or by rebooting.
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I'll give that a spin. :)
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Alright, that fixed it right up!
Which Civ game have you been playing?
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Alright, that fixed it right up!
Which Civ game have you been playing?
I've played them all since Civ I :)
Currently playing Civ V. I've tried Beyond Earth but couldn't really get into it
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I've played them all since Civ I :)
Currently playing Civ V. I've tried Beyond Earth but couldn't really get into it
I liked the hexes and combat in Civ V, but the rest of it was so inferior to Civ IV that I couldn't make the change. I picked up Civ III on sale on Steam the other day and it's as good as I remembered. I've only dabbled in I and II, so I can't comment on them.
I knew better than to give Beyond Earth a chance :P
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Same thing happens to me. I found it happens when you leave the game open and inactive for a long period of time. The only way I found to fix it is to close the game and restart it.
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I liked the hexes and combat in Civ V, but the rest of it was so inferior to Civ IV that I couldn't make the change. I picked up Civ III on sale on Steam the other day and it's as good as I remembered. I've only dabbled in I and II, so I can't comment on them.
I knew better than to give Beyond Earth a chance :P
The expansions for Civ V do add a lot. Much better than the basic version.
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The expansions for Civ V do add a lot. Much better than the basic version.
I agree. I was VERY disappointed with Civ V when it first came out, but tried it again with the expansions a year or two ago and completely changed my mind. At this point I prefer it to Civ IV. I think it's religion, tourism and culture that do it for me. They also seem to have tweaked it so that you can support a large empire - my recollection with the early version was that corruption/unhappiness kept me from conquering everyone else (I like huge maps with lots of empires). That being said, it seems like I always end up going for the culture/tourism win.
Bought Beyond Earth before Christmas, and then was royally pissed that it consistently crashed during start up, presumably due to video card. So every couple of weeks I've been starting up Steam to see if they fixed it, and last week voila - it worked! Currently in my second game - jury's still out on if I'm going to like it or like Steve I'm "meh" (I was a huge fan of Alpha Centauri - resurrected it and ran a game or two a couple of years ago.)
One thing that I find really annoying with it is that there's no way (that I've found) to rename your leader, so after a couple of games the save files start to collide. In addition, you can have more empires than leaders in a game, so you can end up with two "ARC" empires with the same leader name, which is VERY confusing. I assume they'll fix this in a future version, but you'd think they would have noticed this in play-testing and done something to fix it.
On the other hand, they completely renamed the tech, resources, and buildings (e.g. happiness --> health, gold --> energy), so it's very unclear what one needs to drive for to win. It's nice to be completely disoriented by the tech tree for once - in Civ V I always drive to get a religion ASAP. Another downside - they've taken out the Great Persons, so even though specialists are there it seems like they're a lot less useful. And the revised city screen makes it harder to manage specialists. Again, I suspect they'll fix this in an expansion.
So overall, I think Beyond Earth is starting off better than Civ V did in its first release. If they support it with expansions then I have high hopes for it being really good. OTOH, I assume that they're mainly focused on the mainline Civ brand, so there's probably a Civ VI on the drawing board somewhere that will suck resources away from it.
This seems to be what happened to Civ: Colonization a few years back. I REALLY liked the old Colonization (except after a while games bogged down due having to micro-manage the wagon trade routes), but was very disappointed with the remake on top of the Civ engine - it turned it too much into yet another flavor of Civ. The Pirates! remake, OTOH I thought was great - it kept the spirit of the old game but upgraded the engine.
John
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It happens when anything alters your PC resolution while Aurora is active. Easiest way to fix it is to just close Aurora and re-start it.
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So overall, I think Beyond Earth is starting off better than Civ V did in its first release. If they support it with expansions then I have high hopes for it being really good. OTOH, I assume that they're mainly focused on the mainline Civ brand, so there's probably a Civ VI on the drawing board somewhere that will suck resources away from it.
Just remember there will be a much more relevant title to this forum way before Civ VI :):
https://twitter.com/FiraxisGames/status/557167084300681216 (https://twitter.com/FiraxisGames/status/557167084300681216)
Though in my opinion it looks too comic-like, and too much like a reskin again. There were mods for that in Civ V already, and they weren't too great. Chances must be given though, and if it doesn't work, Galactic Civilizations III looks very promising too.
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Just remember there will be a much more relevant title to this forum way before Civ VI :):
https://twitter.com/FiraxisGames/status/557167084300681216 (https://twitter.com/FiraxisGames/status/557167084300681216)
Yeah - I meant to go there then forgot :) Haven't seen much about it yet though - just a story on Yahoo the other day.
John