caesar 4

Faille · 10-18-2006, 08:54 AM

It's out for a while now and surprisingly no thread.

I just started in it, playing on hard level, and its quite a challenge. Seems tricky to balance the factors needed to win a map, though only played one so far so I'm still learning.

Also it suffers from quick collapse that other city games seem to have, in that you can so quickly become over extended and dig yourself into a hole you can't get out of.

Can't wait to get to the military stuff.

Hopefully it will tide me over until medieval2 comes out.

Zefah · 10-18-2006, 10:19 AM

I played Caesar 2 back when I was like 10 and I really liked the game even though I was absolutely awful at it. I would be doing really good until suddenly something in my city went wrong and everything just fell apart from there. One moment I would get a notice that there wasn't enough water in one area and the next moment I would have riots all over town and the whole place would burn into the ground before I could do anything about it.

I may have to pick this up now that I am older and should be able to handle the micro-management compared to when I was younger.

The screenshots look pretty nice. How is the performance?

Soriak · 10-18-2006, 11:21 AM

Phantastic game, if I didn't randomly get BSODs or black screens and lockups for 5 minutes before it continued... such a shame, because it's an awesome game. Lots of complaints about it on the official board, but no fix available still

Jabberwhacky · 10-18-2006, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zefah

I played Caesar 2 back when I was like 10 and I really liked the game even though I was absolutely awful at it. I would be doing really good until suddenly something in my city went wrong and everything just fell apart from there. One moment I would get a notice that there wasn't enough water in one area and the next moment I would have riots all over town and the whole place would burn into the ground before I could do anything about it.

I may have to pick this up now that I am older and should be able to handle the micro-management compared to when I was younger.

The screenshots look pretty nice. How is the performance?

Haha I had very similiar experiences when I played Caeser 3. Mine wasn't so much that my city would fall apart but that I would need to build fancier shit except I had no room. I swear, the hardest part of the game was getting that fucking merchant woman to walk by all the houses and give them food. I'm sitting there thinkign I AM CAESAR, YOU WILL OBEY ME AND FEED MY PEOPLE!!! And she's just like "nah i'm good." Fuck that bitch.

Faille · 10-19-2006, 06:22 PM

Fuck fires that ass rape my whole city with nothing I can do about it.

Cedil · 10-19-2006, 08:36 PM

I'm a longtime Caesar fan, played them right from the first one, in fact I think it was one of the first games, if not the first, I ever got into.

Unfortunately, I can't play the new one (tried the Demo) because my computer cannot handle it

The choppiness is frusturating as all hell and I'm sure after awhile when micro starts to become important I'll simply be useless.

Needless to say, I need a new computer.

Soriak · 10-19-2006, 08:49 PM

Make sure you praetoriates(sp?) are fully staffed and that no building is too far away from one. The guys pathing around are just for show, a fire will be extinguished if it's in range of a building.

kuldiin · 10-20-2006, 02:39 AM

I prefer playing Civcity: Rome to this.

But Im an r-tard and like easy plug and play games

Moontayle · 10-20-2006, 05:15 AM

I played Caesar 3 and the biggest problem I had was when some of my population made the shift from Plebes to Prelates (I think that's what it was). I'd suddenly lose a portion of my working population and wouldn't be able to sustain the needs of my Prelates so they would go back down to Plebes. It was frustrating and amusing at the same time.

Callic · 10-20-2006, 12:21 PM

prefects offices are the ones that stop fires and crime. I keep expanding too much too fast, and if you go in to debt it killls your rep with rome and eventually they send an army to get rid of you

Soriak · 10-20-2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Moontayle

I played Caesar 3 and the biggest problem I had was when some of my population made the shift from Plebes to Prelates (I think that's what it was). I'd suddenly lose a portion of my working population and wouldn't be able to sustain the needs of my Prelates so they would go back down to Plebes. It was frustrating and amusing at the same time.

They don't do that anymore - you now have 3 different types of houses.
Small ones for the plebs, medium for the second type (wow, I really don't remember those names

) and villas that generate estate tax.

Tuco · 10-20-2006, 06:49 PM

Do you not know I have no time with raiding, social and school? Tempt me not to pick up a single player game like this. I remember Caesar II fondly.

Faille · 10-23-2006, 12:50 AM

Anyone got any tips for the military style missions? I seem to have got the hang of doing the economic ones, but military ones seem so much harder to build up effectively and get a decent army happening before you start to get ass raped.

10-18-2006, 08:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Faille Fires of Heaven Officer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,685 +13 Internets	caesar 4 It's out for a while now and surprisingly no thread. I just started in it, playing on hard level, and its quite a challenge. Seems tricky to balance the factors needed to win a map, though only played one so far so I'm still learning. Also it suffers from quick collapse that other city games seem to have, in that you can so quickly become over extended and dig yourself into a hole you can't get out of. Can't wait to get to the military stuff. Hopefully it will tide me over until medieval2 comes out. __________________ Faille Fires of Heaven http://www.fohguild.org/forums/uberw...lopment-forum/

10-19-2006, 06:22 PM	#5 (permalink)
Faille Fires of Heaven Officer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,685 +13 Internets	Fuck fires that ass rape my whole city with nothing I can do about it. __________________ Faille Fires of Heaven http://www.fohguild.org/forums/uberw...lopment-forum/

10-20-2006, 05:15 AM	#9 (permalink)
Moontayle Romo is a manwhore Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 2,910	I played Caesar 3 and the biggest problem I had was when some of my population made the shift from Plebes to Prelates (I think that's what it was). I'd suddenly lose a portion of my working population and wouldn't be able to sustain the needs of my Prelates so they would go back down to Plebes. It was frustrating and amusing at the same time. __________________

10-20-2006, 06:49 PM	#12 (permalink)
Tuco Forum Janitor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Detroit Posts: 8,771 +24 Internets	Do you not know I have no time with raiding, social and school? Tempt me not to pick up a single player game like this. I remember Caesar II fondly. __________________

10-23-2006, 12:50 AM	#13 (permalink)
Faille Fires of Heaven Officer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,685 +13 Internets	Anyone got any tips for the military style missions? I seem to have got the hang of doing the economic ones, but military ones seem so much harder to build up effectively and get a decent army happening before you start to get ass raped. __________________ Faille Fires of Heaven http://www.fohguild.org/forums/uberw...lopment-forum/

10-18-2006, 10:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
Zefah Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Kanagawa, Japan Posts: 1,474 +1 Internets	I played Caesar 2 back when I was like 10 and I really liked the game even though I was absolutely awful at it. I would be doing really good until suddenly something in my city went wrong and everything just fell apart from there. One moment I would get a notice that there wasn't enough water in one area and the next moment I would have riots all over town and the whole place would burn into the ground before I could do anything about it. I may have to pick this up now that I am older and should be able to handle the micro-management compared to when I was younger. The screenshots look pretty nice. How is the performance?

10-18-2006, 11:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
Soriak Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,996 +36 Internets	Phantastic game, if I didn't randomly get BSODs or black screens and lockups for 5 minutes before it continued... such a shame, because it's an awesome game. Lots of complaints about it on the official board, but no fix available still

10-19-2006, 08:36 PM	#6 (permalink)
Cedil Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 388 -1 Internets	I'm a longtime Caesar fan, played them right from the first one, in fact I think it was one of the first games, if not the first, I ever got into. Unfortunately, I can't play the new one (tried the Demo) because my computer cannot handle it The choppiness is frusturating as all hell and I'm sure after awhile when micro starts to become important I'll simply be useless. Needless to say, I need a new computer.

10-19-2006, 08:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
Soriak Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 4,996 +36 Internets	Make sure you praetoriates(sp?) are fully staffed and that no building is too far away from one. The guys pathing around are just for show, a fire will be extinguished if it's in range of a building.

10-20-2006, 02:39 AM	#8 (permalink)
kuldiin Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 141 +0 Internets	I prefer playing Civcity: Rome to this. But Im an r-tard and like easy plug and play games

10-20-2006, 12:21 PM	#10 (permalink)
Callic Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 229 -4 Internets	prefects offices are the ones that stop fires and crime. I keep expanding too much too fast, and if you go in to debt it killls your rep with rome and eventually they send an army to get rid of you

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