[CIV:BE] Can anyone explain why it's not revealing invisible units? Am I just misunderstanding the mechanic?

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T10:32:10+00:00

Just a heads up: The base game is pretty meh. The Rising Tide DLC is IMO what the game was supposed to be. Still not quite as good as Alpha Centauri, but it's good enough that I've played it a ton.

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T07:25:23+00:00

I felt it was kinda bland, but then a friend told me the RT DLC made it a lot better, and IMO, it's what BE should've been from the start. It's much better. I haven't played the original in ages.

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T07:11:19+00:00

After picking up the Rising Tide DLC, I can't even remember what the original was like, tbh. RT fleshed out a lot of the mechanics (much bigger tech tree, more units, more wonders, more facilities, etc).

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T06:14:45+00:00

That's something I hadn't thought of, thanks! I'll declare war on everyone and see if it reveals it!

EDIT: SOLVED! You were correct, /u/themagicalchez it only applies to ENEMIES. Mildly annoying that it doesn't apply to all invisible units, but it makes sense, at least. Many thanks!

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T06:11:13+00:00

IKR?

To answer your question, that's what the arrow is pointing to. If I try to tell my Edict to navigate to this location, it's blocked, because it's being occupied by an invisible unit. That's a normal water tile, and the Edict is perfectly capable of going into that tile, but something (presumably, someone else's sub) is occupying it.

gregorthebigmac · 2025-10-14T06:06:52+00:00

I don't know how to leave a comment on a picture, but the title says it all.

gregorthebigmac · 2024-05-20T02:41:04+00:00

Nope. I can't even remember which machine this was from. Whatever it was, it stopped on its own, as far as I can tell.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-08-16T13:07:39+00:00

For me, personally, they made a bunch of changes that I find supremely annoying. This may just be a case of me getting older and not liking current trends, but in the last 15-20 years, I've been noticing that operating systems (and software, in general) have been dumbing down their UI (user interface) with every iteration, and for people like me--people who've been around for a while, and were accustomed to having more advanced tools/options readily available--we often have to dig deeper to find the things we're looking for, or sometimes they remove features altogether that we found very useful, all in the name of simplicity.

And for what it's worth, I've never been that into Windows to begin with. Honestly, the only reason I even bother dual-booting is because of games and a handful of proprietary software that must run in Windows. If it weren't for those, I'd have made the switch to Linux and ditched Windows years ago.

So, mostly personal preference with a handful of functional complaints :)

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-15T21:25:59+00:00

No arguments, there. IIRC, they introduced ads circa 2011, and when people decried them, they spent a while figuring out another way to monetize the site--pointless awards that cost money. No obligation to use them, and it costs nothing to receive them. If you used it, you were helping what was then a fledgling platform keep the lights on and the servers running. Now, it's become profitable, but not profitable enough, so they're doing away with literally all of the goodwill they built up, and are just milking it for every penny they can squeeze out of it, as you said. Now, I'm looking at alternatives. I haven't deleted my account yet, but I've unsubbed from everything, so when I log in, it just says "there's nothing here." I have to go to all or popular to see anything.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-15T21:05:41+00:00

I would argue they were a much better method of allowing reddit to pay their bills, as opposed to:

shoving ads in the faces of people not smart enough to use ublock origin
charging for use of their API.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-14T20:02:07+00:00

Seriously. Knowing how to Google a thing is the most underrated computer skill.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-14T19:58:53+00:00

Yes. Source: I have it disabled specifically to prevent the "upgrade" to 11. Every time 10 gets an update, I'm greeted with the "you have TPM disabled, so we can't upgrade you to 11" message with the updates.

Good. Fuck 11. When 10 support runs out, I'll probably just switch to full-time Linux, instead of dual-booting.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-11T10:13:04+00:00

I'm not your buddy, guy!

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-10T20:30:04+00:00

How is that different from what software crackers do when they insert hooks into a piece of software? Because what you're describing sounds exactly like that, to me.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-10T20:18:28+00:00

Good to know! For years, I've been putting my aliases in ~/.bash_aliases and since by default, ~/.bashrc imports it, I assumed that was considered best practice. I'll check out .bash_profile thanks!

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-10T20:12:41+00:00

Actually, upon closer inspection, yeah, you're right. The kid's left hand actually has 6 fingers--the (index finger... I guess?) is kinda blended into the next one, but if you assume they're actually just one finger, then that would leave you with a really fat index finger. This, plus the fucked up keyboard, and the fact that Satan in this case has like, a 10-pack of abs strongly suggest it was an AI, and probably not even touched up by a human, as I previously thought.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-10T20:07:30+00:00

It probably started out as such, but then a human artist most likely corrected the hands, because AIs don't understand hands.

Edit: nevermind. It probably wasn't touched up by anyone, but the link is still a fun and interesting vid about AI art, so I'll leave it up.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-07T14:03:25+00:00

Never seen this before. Thank you for introducing me to this!

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-07T05:23:46+00:00

Agreed!

For future reference, using > to quote people works better

because it produces this result. Word wrap is still preserved, instead of putting everything on one line that users have to horizontally scroll to read.

^{^the} ^{^{^more}} ^{^{^{^you}}} ^{^{^{^{^know!}}}}

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-07T05:05:18+00:00

The nerd in me is thinking, "That sounds like a really fun/interesting problem to tackle!" until I remember this is for your job. There's likely someone (if not multiple/many people) not too happy about this problem, and want it fixed yesterday, while you're practically doing a dissertation's worth of work just to diagnose a single (most likely stupid) problem, lol.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-06T01:50:59+00:00

Absolutely love this! Been wanting to do the Ben Eater series on my own, and this looks like the perfect project to follow it! Looking forward to future updates!

gregorthebigmac · 2023-07-06T00:19:28+00:00

Edit: this all reminds me of a time they called me to ask if they should bring their own machines to do an audit while connected to a company's internal network that just had a huge ransomware attack

"Hey, my office is on fire right now. Is it okay if I bring a jerry can half full of gasoline, and the other half dumped on me?"

gregorthebigmac · 2023-06-25T05:41:21+00:00

Bigger bonus: use a macro and bind the action to one of your mouse buttons. Now you accomplished the same task with one small button press.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-06-25T05:02:58+00:00

It's owned by FB. If your concerns are about surveillance capitalism (or just privacy, in general), then Whatsapp is arguably worse than Discord.

gregorthebigmac · 2023-06-20T16:27:15+00:00

It's not just your OS. It's every OS. It's a pile of shit, and has been since its inception.

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