• I find that playing at a high X resolution with a smaller game window is better than playing full screen. (I use a 1280x1024 screen w/ a 800x600 game window.) As is standard with these types of strategy games, when the mouse approaches the edge of the window, the map will scroll in that direction. Trying to change virtual windows while playing full-screen can be very annoying.

• Have X in 16bpp mode. 24 or 32bpp mode will cause all of the graphics to be converted from 16bpp mode first which causes a major game slowdown to occur.

• Mount the CD-ROM if you want to play movies. The game is smart enough to look at all ISO9660 mounted filesystems for the movies, but it won't mount the CD for you. The manual is a bit fuzzy about this.

• Have as much memory as you can. My machine is a K6-350MHz w/ 128Mb of RAM, and I find that the game still swaps after I get to the later ages of the game.

• Be prepared to become addicted! Make sure you don't mind wasting^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspending lots of quality time playing the game. (One night, at 11pm, I said "I should go to sleep, but let me just play another turn or two." The next time I looked at the clock is was 3:45am.)

• Upgrade to CTP v1.1! You don't want to see "BUG! (Segmentation Fault) Going down hard..." Visit the Loki Soft web site, and look at their Technical FAQ. The patch is available there; it is 3.87Mb in size.

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