Why can't I see all the leaders faces

jrl306 · March 23, 2003, 12:50

I am out of room on my diplomatic screen for faces to be there so I can click on them to speak with there leader. Is there anyway that I can contact them now?

VJ · March 23, 2003, 12:58

Erm, you've eliminated them all? Have you contacted them yet?

jrl306 · March 23, 2003, 13:18

No, I just have made contact with so many civs that it won't show anymore, even though I have talked to them when we first met... I don't know how to rephrase the question, can anyone help me.

VJ · March 23, 2003, 13:24

Sorry, can't understand what you are saying... come back in a quarter of hour, I'm pretty sure that somebody has understood.

jrl306 · March 23, 2003, 13:32

Alright one last try...

On the screen where you see the leaders faces there is something like 8 spots. At first there is just a question mark but then when you make contact with a civ then there face appears where the question mark was.

However, in a game with many civs the entire circle of leaders faces gets filled.

I then met another civ and it doesn't show up because there is no room.

Is there anyway for me to contact them, as at this point only they can talk to me because I am out of room?

vmxa1 · March 23, 2003, 14:24

The game can only handle 8 civs at a time. If you have PTW, you should have a display on the screen with a tag of something like more civs. Selecting this will yield a drop down list of civs you know about and selecting one will replace of of the currently displayed one.
I forget how this is accomplished before PTW, but it canbe done. It has been expalined in an older thread is you are in a hury.

badams52 · March 23, 2003, 15:14

I believe the pre PTW way is to right click or maybe shift right click on a leader head and a list will pop up of other available civs to place there.

badams52 · March 23, 2003, 15:19

Of course you could always just use shift-d (or is it just 'd' I can never remember the hot keys without being in the game itself and one of them is disband unit, the other is diplomacy) to bring up the diplomacy list of current civs you can talk to and choose one. There's also a little "D" next to the status box on the right side that you can click and get the listing of current civs you can contact. I usually don't do this though cause if you click just to the left of the "D" on accident, your turn ends.

Disclaimer: These ways are all pre PTW. They may have changed.

jrl306 · March 23, 2003, 17:41

ok thanks a lot guys

pedrojedi · March 23, 2003, 18:04

Nobody said it, but the other leaders could be shy, and then you have to throw some kind words of encouragement to make them appear. Even if you are going to declare war!

epics · March 24, 2003, 10:45

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Originally posted by pedrojedi
Nobody said it, but the other leaders could be shy, and then you have to throw some kind words of encouragement to make them appear. Even if you are going to declare war!

Quite interesting suggestion. In my case I always turn the monitor around and there they are!!! They hide behind the civ screen!