27-05-2004 03:13									#1
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I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there is a fix for it...

After awhile the speed that units travel at becomes nearly instantaneous, that is, the speed that is displayed, not an increase in their movement points. This is annoying because you can't really see what is going on. I have tried quitting and reloading, but that doesn't help at all. Occasionally, it will go back to normal speed, but later on reverts to high speed movement. If I reinstall the game it will go back to normal speed for awhile, but I can't reload a game that I have been playing. It doesn't seem to matter if I am using v1.0, 1.20, or 1.22.

Any help with this will certainly be appreciated.

	27-05-2004 04:41									#2
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Strange.

You don't have CAPS LOCK on?

All Animated movements are turned on in preferences?

	27-05-2004 06:36									#3
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Given the way you describe it as coming and going, it's probably caps lock. Holding down the shift key during the AI's turn causes their units to move fast, and turning on caps lock makes this happen all the time. I think the caps lock feature was just added with the latest patch.

	27-05-2004 10:53									#4
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CAPS LOCK on? Didn't know about that one. I'll try it in my current game.

	27-05-2004 10:55									#5
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Thanks, I will try that. I may have inadvertently hit the caps lock at some point. It also affected my units, not just the AI units, but that could very well be the problem.

	27-05-2004 11:33									#6
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I think most people would prefer the game speed up

	27-05-2004 16:04									#7
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Heh, you mean you don't like the faster speed? It halves the time the AI takes to finish their turns (bar a massive war on my borders), which is very useful in the late game when the AI insists on moving their ships up and down my coast.

Caps Lock!!!

	27-05-2004 21:50									#8
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I suppose that could be good, but I like to actually see what's going on. My computer is fast enough that the time lag doesn't get really slow anyway. At least on the games I've played so far, which is about 2.

	27-05-2004 22:07									#9
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The shift and caps lock keys are just to temporarily speed up the AI moves. You can make it that way permamently in the Preferences tab by setting the various Animate options. Animate on means slow moves between tiles, while Animate off means fast moves between tiles. I have Animate off for my manual and automatic moves since I don't need to see my units move slowly. I also have it off for Friend moves, since I don't care nor need to watch if my friendly neighbor AI wants to move workers and galleys back and forth along my border for 2,000 years. But I have it on for Enemy moves, because like you, I want to make sure I see where the enemy units are moving. I also have Animate battles on, because it's more exciting to watch the outcome of the battle blow by blow.

	27-05-2004 22:50									#10
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Shift and Caps Lock affect all moves. I've got into the habit of hitting shift whenever I give a goto order.

	28-05-2004 00:40									#11
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Caps Lock is pretty essential if you automate your workers late game when you generally have quite a few. Otherwise it feels like you spend the whole turn watching them putter about.

	28-05-2004 01:44									#12
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Better solution: Don't automate workers.

	28-05-2004 02:08									#13
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Over time I’ve cut back from full automation, to partial (clear swamps/jungles, clean pollution, build RR from point A to B) but with literally scores of workers on large/huge maps during the late game, I don’t have the patience to do it all by hand, and that’s still a lot of puttering.

	28-05-2004 11:00									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist Better solution: Don't automate workers.

THAT really slows down the game!
In the beginning I move my workers manually, but later in the game they surely go on auto.

And are people still watching any automated moves as if they're manually? WOW! Never expected that!

I don't even have enemy-moves on.......
At the ending of my turn I look where his units are, and at the beginning of the new turn where they have gone.
Works perfectly.

Of course the battles must be animated! That's part of the fun!

	31-05-2004 00:28									#15
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quote: You can make it that way permamently in the Preferences tab by setting the various Animate options. Animate on means slow moves between tiles, while Animate off means fast moves between tiles

PBEM games save the preferences in the game, so when you load them up you get affected by any changes the previous player made. That is really annoying at times. Especially when people turn off animations of units, because I want them on

I would prefer preferences to remain seperate from game settings.

	31-05-2004 04:13									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin quote: You can make it that way permamently in the Preferences tab by setting the various Animate options. Animate on means slow moves between tiles, while Animate off means fast moves between tiles PBEM games save the preferences in the game, so when you load them up you get affected by any changes the previous player made. That is really annoying at times. Especially when people turn off animations of units, because I want them on I would prefer preferences to remain seperate from game settings.

hi ,

its something they should fix in the next patch , ....

it would be easy to program this , ....


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	01-06-2004 18:09									#17
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When saving my PBEMs, I usually zoom map out by 4000%, flips it upside down, turn grids on, color all resources pink, enable music with speed increased by 137%. Finally, I hide the preferences button.

Makes people Happy

	02-06-2004 11:34									#18
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quote: Originally posted by bongo When saving my PBEMs, I usually zoom map out by 4000%, flips it upside down, turn grids on, color all resources pink, enable music with speed increased by 137%. Finally, I hide the preferences button. Makes people Happy

Oh goody. Yet another reason to never play PEBM.

	02-06-2004 14:22									#19
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quote: Originally posted by bongo When saving my PBEMs, I usually zoom map out by 4000%, flips it upside down, turn grids on, color all resources pink, enable music with speed increased by 137%. Finally, I hide the preferences button. Makes people Happy

Before or after they are put into the white padded rooms? Music on? Who DOES that?!

	02-06-2004 15:37									#20
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Wonder if the language can be changed mid-game?

	02-06-2004 22:40									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 Wonder if the language can be changed mid-game?

hi ,

it used to be a nightmare , but who wants to try now , ....

well , who ever tries , please explain what happens , ....

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	03-06-2004 16:33									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 Wonder if the language can be changed mid-game?

I'm in a PBEM with a Spaniard, and the guy afterwards has no problems with it being in Spanish. ALthough this doesn't necessarily mean anything for the Epic game.

	04-06-2004 00:16									#23
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I'm in a couple of games where the language got set to Spanish after it was loaded up in a Spanish version of the game.

I'm so used to it now that I forget that its actually "worker" and think "trabajador" instead.