Recent content by lightnng

Interesting. When I first tried updating, my personal firewall first claimed that the executable changed and asked me to confirm. That seemed odd, but I couldn't find a reasonable way in which this could be a hack, so I let it be. The game came back and said "no patches available". But when I...

I think what you're looking for is "production automation". If you look under the city screen, on the bottom right where the little production icons are, the top two are "turn production automation on/off" and "turn citizen automation on/off". Turn the first one off.

But does anyone know what those bonuses are, exactly? In Civ3 I knew the specifics... is this information not available by design or am I just missing it somewhere? I also still can't figure out what power plants do in Civ4 :-)

So... now that I've won my first game on Noble - I was playing Frederick on a standard map, and it was hairy at the end with the Chinese rounding everyone else on their side but just missing on diplomatic victory because I had a civ just large enough to corner enough votes. I managed to...

Its on Apolyton... http://civilization4.net/3/177/334/

So I'm running as the Germans on Noble on a continent map and have built a bunch of cities... founded Judaism in Hamburg, then Christianity in (I think) Munich, then founded Taoism in... Hamburg? How can that be? Why would it be founded there when I have five other "non-holy" cities to pick...

Hindus on EARTH don't eat cows. Hindus in a Civ4 game could be all about eating beef as a worshipping ritual. And in another game they could be monotheistic. Hinduism was used because the WORD is familiar, not because the RELIGION is familiar.

I don't understand this sort of claim. EARTH Christianity may have led to the crusades. CIV4 Christianity might be all about the advancement of pedophilia in one game, sacrificing chickens in another, and worshipping cats in yet a third. It could be polytheistic. It could be a manifestation of...

And since when has it been decided that you are playing on earth?

Well, depending on what you mean by moderated... there is no editorial staff if that's what you mean. It's "moderated" by it's collective userbase who tend to fix errors that creep in. Still, when there isn't anyone reading the particular articles with errors who can fix them... they can stay...

Well, I dunno about that... seeing how my wife introduced me to Civ :-) Of course, in return I introduced her to D&D and boardgames, so I suppose it was a fair trade.

My wife just got her christmas gift - a wee bit early, I know, but she was home when it came and I eventually just gave it to her when she guessed what it was. And that would be a new laptop. So I spent some time setting it up, and then installed Civ4 on it... since it's the most powerful...

It's not a huge issue since I play with the resource markers turned on, but I'm still curious: in my game everything works perfectly except that I can't see the animals (cows, horses, pigs etc), only their shadows. Any idea what's causing this? Is it a bug? If so, is it on someone's radar to be...

It's not a huge issue since I play with the resource markers turned on, but I'm still curious: in my game everything works perfectly except that I can't see the animals (cows, horses, pigs etc), only their shadows. Any idea what's causing this? Is it a bug? If so, is it on someone's radar to be...

Got through my first game - on Warlord - and boy is this a different game than Civ3. I won on space race at 2032, although I fully expected to win by diplomacy but for some reason could never budge Mao to not vote for me instead of abstaining, and was therefore always 30-50 votes behind. The...