@xo --

So you're a Civ fan, eh? I've got a good friend that I'll probably be having some multiplayer games with in another month or two. Setting up multiplayer games is largely a matter of people's individual schedules -- and everyone having the time to do it. That can be tough across time-zones. Especially with a long-term game like Civ.

Civ IV offers e-mail multiplay. E-mail play might be a good way to avoid scheduling problems, although it seems to me that an e-mail game of Civ might go on for six months or more.

As for Civ IV's bugs: the problems have hit some people a lot harder than others. On Amazon, the Civ IV reviews are sharply divided between five-star praises and one-to-two star slams ((for some reason, that situation creates a strong impression of dvu........)). Praise or slam -- it all seems to depend upon how badly each individual was affected by the bugs.

Really, until eF tells us anything about P7, we're just speculating and hoping.

Yep. What you said.

It seems that our forum discussions don't have much influence, not that I know.

I've sometimes wondered about that myself -- just how much impact do the forums actually have on companies like eF? I doubt that they ignore the forums completely. But they might not put much weight on what they find here. I wouldn't. After all: it's the unhappy that tend to vocalize a lot more than the satisfied do.

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