Recent content by acuoio

I usually use them sparingly because if you start spamming too many, those civs will switch to State Property or Mercantilsm and stop them altogether. Bleed them just enough so it doesn't bother them. Each frachise you spawn in another civ's city, you get 5 gold back in your corporation's...

Just open the game, and choose Update from the Options screen. It will automatically download any patches you need.

A city tile is always 2/1/1 no matter what it's on. Even if there are horses founded in your city walls, it's still 2/1/1. Your first choice for founding an edge city is a hill for the defense. For other cities, it's the crappiest tile in the area - tundra/desert/ice.

I tend to build 2 commerce-focused cities. Since I play Financial Civs, this is easier and I usually make my capital city my Commerce/Science city and shoot for Bureaucracy. The best commerce cities are floodplains or grasslands. The goal is to put cottages on plots that already have 2+ food...

I believe what the poster meant was that these negative squares can't be worked unless you put a city on top of them. Then you get the default 2/1/1 for the city square. So if you have a 21 square plot with 20 flood plains and 1 desert, you plop your city on the desert square.

Try playing a Fantasy map with resources set to Crazy. I remember my last map - my capital city had 2 tundra, 1 ice, and 1 mountain. But it also had 9 resources in the 3x3 radius. Play this type of map and you'll get over your fear of "bad tiles."

You need to find the .exe file in your BTS folder within Civ4. Right-click on that .exe and choose Send To -> Desktop (creat Shortcut).

When it comes to utilizing commerce tiles, the goal is to work tiles that pay for themselves. Coastal/lake tiles grant 2 commerce (+1 if you are financial). These squares give 2 food (lighthouse needed). So they pay for themselves. A gold mine is good, but it doesn't pay for itself. Plus, a...

This is my preference too. That's why the Dutch are my new favorite civ.

Hard questions to answer without knowing any of your flaws. I find that many newbies don't build cottages, thus lack money to keep their science slider up. Try to found a city on grasslands or better yet, flood plains. Then build cottages on every one of them. Then start working them and they...

Not sure if it scales by game level. At Noble, you receive 3000 points which instantly gives you all the passive missions - meaning, you can see 100% into all of their cities.

My other favorite times are when the AI beelines for a goody hut or a barb city when you know they have no clue it's there. I guess it's hard for the computer to hide stuff from itself. :D

With the pre-BTS game, I got beaten to Great Library by 4 turns. So I cheated and rolled back. Just for grins, I played that old save out again 3 time and each time the other Civ beat me exactly at the same turn. Which is what I would expect. On the 4th try, he built a completely different...

Game is definitely worth it. This should have been the first expansion pack, not the 2nd. It's good. The people complaining about corporations don't know how to use them properly.

Can't define wealth like that. Someone with a DVD isn't more wealthier than a person without. A person with a DVD is poorer. [edit - partially true as the dvd still has value]. The money he spent on the DVD went somewhere else. But we can't think individually, only nationally. In your...