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  1. i will never trade with you...
  2. So Totally Lost
  3. Fishing Village
  4. Setting the number of Autosave games to keep
  5. City Icons - What are they?
  6. OCC Strategy...
  7. Philosophy slingshot
  8. Limited Number of Super-Specialists?
  9. Cottages on grassland or floodplains....?.....or both?
  10. Advice needed, midgame decision
  11. Civics micro management with spiritual...
  12. Optimum number of workers?
  13. Research and Economy
  14. The first conquest - who to attack?
  15. Help with the time..?
  16. Heavy Cottage or Specialist Strategy, Which One for Domination/Conquest Win?
  17. Request for religious strategy
  18. who uses pacifism and why?
  19. War strategy at Emperor to Deity
  20. Multiplayer Strategy & Tips
  21. Permanent Alliance benefits
  22. Noob here, playing on Nobel difficulty, just not getting it done
  23. First Post and quick question
  24. When is it good to build on a resource tile?
  25. Need Domination/Conquest guide for Noble
  26. AI voting behavior for diplo victory
  27. What are the first 4 things that you try to build?
  28. Conquering cities with panzers / artillery?
  29. Number of Cities
  30. An Emperor start - how would you play it?
  31. How to keep captured cities....
  32. AI upgrade costs
  33. There has got to be a way to stop this...
  34. Cities: Specialized vs. Well rounded
  35. Desert War Disadvantage
  36. religious assassination?
  37. how do you survive on deity?
  38. Whats all this talk about specialized cities?
  39. I didn't know...
  40. Anyone got a viable strategy for Immortal?
  41. Balanced map generation
  42. Unit healing rates
  43. Moving from Monarch to Emperor
  44. Any success with spies?
  45. Can Explorers pillage like in CIV3?
  46. Do barbarians discriminate?
  47. Stacking workers
  48. Problem with "Global warming"..
  49. domination limit
  50. SAM Infantry v Regular Infantry
  51. Usual for Monarch?
  52. Stonehenge or Oracle
  53. How do you deal with religion
  54. Resource Question
  55. Can Emporer/Immortal/Deity games be won without starting with Mysticism?
  56. Which is your favorite starting resource?
  57. Great People
  58. Great People Farms...help needed!
  59. Continent, killed off AI, what after war?
  60. Best Leader
  61. Strategies for Dealing with Isolation Scenarios
  62. Winning the race for first religion
  63. question
  64. Tundra Question
  65. Culture, Small City Pushes Big City
  66. Ice City - Difficult Start, Test Your Skill
  67. Space Elevator - when can i build it?
  68. Growing
  69. Ugly game start
  70. Raging Barbarians?
  71. WARFARE - which unit to use?
  72. Coincidence? Or is the AI really this smart?
  73. Tech Help
  74. Cut loose the dogs of war?
  75. Starting Descisions
  76. Which are the best starting techs?
  77. Which land type is easiest to beat on hard difficulties?
  78. Prebuilt troops.
  79. Governors and Caste System
  80. Potential exploit, or good move Batman..
  81. Is there a strategy that ONLY works on settler difficulty ?
  82. Definitely, war is very badly implemented
  83. 2 questions. One easy, one not so much.
  84. Some basic Questions:
  85. Where to find my resources
  86. Prince Games - Problem
  87. Early Civ military rushes too powerful vs. grow and build civs
  88. How do you get started on Emperor?
  89. Noob in a conondrum on Noble: What do you think?
  90. worker or warrior?
  91. How do I rush production?
  92. AI cheats on early scouting
  93. Do not automate workers :(
  94. What's your favorite civ?
  95. Power Plant(s)?
  96. How good are Pyramids and Representation, really?
  97. Land grab VS research and infrastructure
  98. The perfect chop: let's compare strategies
  99. Attacking with Combined Arms
  100. Build all wonders resource is avaible for?
  101. "Beeline" for internet?
  102. help with GP and commerce cities
  103. Some Combat 101 help needed
  104. Help! Addicted to Philosophical!
  105. Inflation Cost!!
  106. City Spacing?
  107. Roads and Improvements
  108. Building cities after conquest (cont. from "Building on Resource Tiles")
  109. Farms or Cottages on a tile?
  110. General Strategies and Tips
  111. About poprushing...
  112. Now what? Advice requested.....
  113. Barbarians and Village huts: is this another way to help the AI in high levels?
  114. The Emperor has no copper....
  115. The Odds Calculator can't be trusted!
  116. Bismarck Strategy
  117. Obelisks obsolete with Calender?
  118. Macemen?
  119. National Epic, West Point, and Red Cross
  120. Guide for choosing civics
  121. The Emperor Discussion thread
  122. Defending Resources
  123. Using Specialists in Civ 4
  124. Murder!
  125. Combat seems easy in Civ4
  126. Growth and Great People
  127. Great Persons Tips
  128. GPP city vs GPP cities
  129. Great people farm : farms or cottages?
  130. Is it a "good thing" to have 4 Religions?
  131. Great People Usages
  132. Help
  133. Game facts
  134. Anyone out there beat Immortal? How?
  135. Pa
  136. Longevity
  137. How to Effectively Utilize your Workers
  138. Constantly Falling Behind
  139. Hut burn
  140. Got lucky with a culture bomb
  141. GPF Tips/Diplo Victory Advice?
  142. Strongest/weirdest unit?
  143. Do AI civs get upset if you don't trade World Maps?
  144. Which unit(s) are useful the longest?
  145. How often do you reload a save?
  146. Trade Routes
  147. beginner needing advice
  148. Effectively spreading religion
  149. What to do about Green and Red faces?
  150. Converting from Free Religion
  151. Win from Culture?
  152. How to efectively use MG?
  153. Only way I can beat it on Prince: Incans.
  154. Is there a point in improving tiles not in a city fat-cross?
  155. Bombers
  156. Good Leader for Domination Victory?
  157. Ai Pa
  158. Permanent Alliance Question
  159. Religion/the Spying effect and FOW
  160. Overcrowding? How do I resolve this issue?
  161. Why do my missionaries keep failing?
  162. A familiar pattern!
  163. I Hate Mansa! How Does He Always Keep Running Away With The Techs?
  164. I'm back again for help
  165. AI Issues
  166. Calling all Emperor players
  167. Favorite Unit of All Time
  168. Trade
  169. What is different about going for conquest or domination?
  170. what do you do with specialized people?
  171. Prince/Cyrus/1588AD/ No tech trading / -- Why falling behind?
  172. Financial Dominance leads to... not a Spaceship
  173. New to CIV 4: Looking for a few tips
  174. Cultural victory questions.
  175. Revolts (and stopping them)
  176. Patches?
  177. To trade Alphabet or not
  178. City proximity
  179. Why Mercantilism?
  180. Help me out
  181. Diplomacy?
  182. Spies Like Us
  183. Science rate at 40%. What am I doing wrong?
  184. Big Citys
  185. Barbarians
  186. Best promotion with Cossacks?
  187. Tech Trading w/ AI (Prince)
  188. Conquest Victory?
  189. Which national wonders to build in which cities?
  190. Open Borders and Expansionism
  191. Does anybody else like to use the pop-ups?
  192. Massive Financial Problems
  193. Bronze, then resource tech or the other way?
  194. Need Help on Starting City
  195. Strat questions about the crucial first part of the game in Civ 4
  196. Merchants
  197. Problem with the Global warming
  198. How much XP do you need to advance each level?
  199. Falling behind in tech on Emperor: hopeless?
  200. Chancing victory conditions afterwards?
  201. What does your emperor capital specialize in, if anything
  202. Setting Starting Civs
  203. The Reinforcement Tapdance
  204. Rush costs? Civ4 wiki?
  205. Hopeless? No. Challenging? Yes. How would you play this emperor start?
  206. Merchants: The best science specialists?
  207. War Weariness!
  208. Great artist on the front lines!
  209. Help a jack of all trades; master of none
  210. Trade Routes
  211. Strike!?
  212. Getting AI to Gift you Techs (Prince)
  213. Who is the best conquer leader
  214. "Rushing" production
  215. Defensive Move / AI Exploit
  216. Trouble with Nukes
  217. A good start-- how to exploit it?
  218. Hall of Fame question, help
  219. Any FX marathon 1200 gamers strategy?
  220. am i a born warrior - or a sucky researcher?
  221. am i a born warrior - or a sucky researcher?
  222. am i a born warrior - or a sucky researcher?
  223. How do you open "The Big Picture?"
  224. City Flipping
  225. Production Infrustructure
  226. Religion theft - A cultural victory tool
  227. First Monarch Game - Advice on this save please
  228. Economy Downshift / Upshift
  229. Trade network across ocean
  230. To Capture, or not To Capture?
  231. City specialization...
  232. Multi-religion empire: should I postpone Scientific method?
  233. The ultimate start topic
  234. Cottage Spamming
  235. Economy and Tech Advancement
  236. Citizen Automation or Manual Control
  237. Request for tutelage -- Redcoat time.
  238. Any Strat With Panzers?
  239. The Quechua: A Highly Overrated Unit
  240. What am I doing wrong?
  241. how to smooth your game?
  242. Inflation?
  243. Economic Problems
  244. Maximum number of super-specialists?
  245. How is Civ4 starting strategy different from civ3?
  246. Problems with wonder movies? Cut it out!
  247. Emperor level - Permanent alliances the way?
  248. Noob alert: I'm missing a basic element here.
  249. Building up a huge empire relatively early on then catching up (Emperor)
  250. Workshops! Uh, good gawd yall!