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What
kinds of resources are there, and are they exhaustible?
There are six resources:
Food, to feed the population and build new units. Wood and stone for
construction. Gold for research and military salaries. Coal and iron for
arms production and ammo supply. All resources are inexhaustible so that
possessing a forest will not win the war, but your superior strategy.
Is
there a map editor included?
No, but a map generator with
a wide range of preselectable features for unlimited variations. You
will not have to play the same maps over and over.
Whatīs
the importance of research in Cossacks?
Research is extremely
important. The age af renaissance was one of immense technical and
scientific progress. This is represented in the game by the unit
upgrading system and more than 300 developments.
Which
are the hardware requirements?
Minimum: Pentium 200, 32 MB
Ram, 1 MB video card, 200 MB available harddisk space, 8x CD-Rom, sound
card
Recommended: Pentium 266, 64 MB RAM, 4 MB video card
For which
platforms is Cossacks available?
So far, Cossacks can be
played with Win95/98/2000/ME and Windows NT.
Is
this game really 3D, and do you need a 3D graphics accelerator?
The landscape is actually 3D,
youīll experience this finally when the enemy is throwing hand grenades
downhill while your soldiers are slowly marching up. A 3D hardware
accelerator is not required.
Can
you zoom or turn the view?
No. Viewing a battle from the
eagleīs eye or flying a 3D-camera is entertaining but will mostly lead
to a defeat, so that feature was excluded.
Which
ports do you have to enable/unlock to play Cossacks online ?
(refers to Router,Firewall or Network)
Please enable/unlock the
following ports:
Ports for GameSpy:
6667 (IRC)
80 (HTTP)
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
Ports for DirectPlay:
Initial TCP Connection 47624 Outbound 47624 Inbound
Inbound TCP Connections 2300-2400 2300-2400, Outbound TCP Connections
2300-2400 2300-2400
Inbound UDP Connections 2300-2400 2300-2400 , Outbound UDP Connections
2300-2400 2300-2400
Where
is Cossacks being developed?
In the Ukraine, by GSC.
Am
I able to buy European Wars: Cossacks in my country?
Yes, surely. CDV distributes
Cossacks world wide.
In
which languages will the game be issued?
By now itīs planned to
include german, english, french, spanish and russian, but more are to be
prepared.
Will
there be an Add-On?
Yes, definitely. Letīs
unveil just one thing: it will take place on the north american
continent.
Can
damaged ships be repaired?
Unfortunately, damaged ships
cannot be repaired, you have to create new ones from scratch. At this
time, we cannot say whether this can or will be changed in th
Can
I try the game before I buy it?
Yes, just download the demo here!
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