Recent content by Tadzio

In general, what is the best improvement to put on plains tiles?

Sometimes a city will have an unimproved tile that has 1food and 2hammers (or 3food, or 3 hammers) that your city can work. A tile like that will speed along the production of a worker.

The closest thing the Jews have had to an empire is modern-day Israel-- and they're just sucking off USA's teet. I suppose there was the Jewish diaspora in ancient Rome, too, but that was more teet sucking. If a Jewish civilization were added to CIV, it'd be for purely political reasons... and...

When I play to win by any means, I use slavery, police state, theocracy and I war for 90% of ~6000 years of gametime. When I play to satisfy my personal ideologies I can only win through culture. History's a brutal thing.

Obviously, you can't because you accidentally the whole thing.

Is there a way to watch the computer play? When I'm trying to get better at other games I often watch replays of more experienced players to get a feel for "tried and true" skills and techniques. I thought it might be helpful for my early game micromanagement if I could watch the comp play or...

4000-1000BC Noble/Normal

I'll keep playing Civ4 until I beat deity, I die, or I get tired of failing. I feel like I'm getting better, so I'm not about to quit... but I've yet to win a prince difficulty game, so I imagine I'm a ways off from ending my civ4 journey.

Giving it a shot.

Ah, I didn't realize it was commonplace. Past vassals always got to "friendly" really fast and none of my ridiculous demands ever changed that. Just goes to show how inexperienced I am. I ended up hunkering down, begging for peace when China would talk to me again and then taking over...

So, um. Which leaders will go to war with you after you've forced them to capitulate? I was playing a warmongering game on Noble difficulty today (something I've gotten much better at now that I know about build-Queues and rally points, lol) and I killed the Egypitians (to my east) early. A...

I'm pretty noob, but I'm pretty certain the early tech order is decided by what resources are near your capital. At least that's how I choose them.

How do you guys put up those city layout thingees? I've been drawing BFC's in BUGmod manually, but it'd be nice to do it at the click of a button.

Naw, I thought that the act of building an improvement on a tile would auto-clear the jungle... like it does for farms, cottages, mines..... Do you have to manually clear the jungle for plantations and wineries too?