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two unrelated thoughts about forts: i finally got smart today (about one thing) and found a use for bored workers. sometimes i have to place a city so that it needs a fort for ships on a tile where i'd really rather have a lumbermill, mine, or farm. often with captured cities too. well...

using patch 3.13 an AP resolution popped up and i thought it was for resident and voted for myself. oops, it was for Religious Leader, and i accidentally won the game. but i won with only my own votes. i didn't screenshot the victory line, but it did count as a victory. my guess at what...

i played an "Always Peace" game recently and Wang Kon called me up several times asking me to accept him as a vassal and protect him. in Always Peace, once the barbarian threat is gone, there's no benefit to him having a master, since there isn't anything he needs protection from! but there is...

when the AI signs a peace treaty, the -at war penalties go away instantly, which often changes the status of the relationship (annoyed -> cautious for example). the change in status is properly shown instantly. but in cases where that makes the person they were at war with no longer their...

disclaimers: this isn't a poll because what i'm interested in are thoughts and opinions. i know that personalities and definitions of fun are distinctly personal and my #1 rule is that it's a game, play the way that's fun for you. i'm stating my opinion and i'm not saying that those who feel...

as just about anybody who's read one of my rambles knows, i'm not generally in the mood for massive warmongering. i do WHEOOHRN checks often, and i'm paranoid. pre-BtS, when i was about to attack someone i'd make an arrogant demand for their cash, since it's better for me to have it for...

i finally patched to 3.13, this was just my second game using it. i know they changed the privateer mechanics. the change list says "Privateers no longer destroyed when a friendly ship enters its port." that's good, nobody wants their ship to poof. i'd initially interpeted "its port" as a...

i was doing a test to answer some questions that came up on the forum, so i created a colony on a continent i captured from montezuma much earlier in the game. that continent has my one and only source of coal, but i thought i'd be able to demand it because the civilopedia says "The master has...

hubby plays civ4 but never posts. i think he'd really like Rhye's, particularly given his love of history and how he gets a kick out of seeing "what-if"s of alternative history. i've never tried it, can't pull away from normal BtS and history's not my thing, but i've read about it off and on...

i'm playing a game with permanent alliances enabled. this is only my second PA-enabled game i think. random personalities are on, so whatever this is, it isn't specific to Louis in his normal form since he's not really Louis. i've been checking every turn lately whether our DP has lasted long...

i've only ever seen mansa musa with monopoly techs not redlined for "we're not ready to start trading this technology just yet". but in my current game (which is a shadow of a current SG since i want to see how a certain approach would have played out, but don't want to use our real map since...

this game is admittedly unusual circumstances, maybe that's the only reason that hatty's behaving oddly. i'm far far behind the AIs in tech, since i'm going for a cultural victory, and have turned off science going towards astronomy. my aim is to not research chemistry, so that my parthenon...

this is an odd one. i'm not even really asking for help, i've given up on it. but i'd like to understand what happened since i don't have a clue. long story follows. short version is, i bought direct2drive version, and when i hit play, nothing happened. turns out warlords was running, task...

disclaimer: i know nothing at all about computers or viruses. i should have screenshotted it but i do the "i know nothing about computers so OMG freak out" thing and reboot right away, next time i'll take a picture. this has happened twice now, once yesterday and once today. both times...

blah blah cutting to the bottomline, a first for me. my disk drive is not getting along with my civ4 vanilla and warlords disks. they work for hubby, it's my pc that somehow has a low tolerance and i am frustrated past my limit. i'm going to buy another copy of each, i get enough fun out of...

i didn't know this, and neither did some folks in the HoF forum, so i figure it's not 100% common knowledge and perhaps worth a mention here. i know many people play by keys like me, and reach the diplomatic screen by hitting F4, which doesn't work when a civ comes to you to demand something...

i thought of this while replying to the Mansa Musa thread in strategy & tips, but pulled it out to not go off-topic as much as i usually do. i've been slowly but surely moving up in difficulty levels when i'm in the mood for a challenge. even spent some time off and on over a month trying...

edit: yay!! i got a major done! biggest edit ever: yay!!!!! i made it!!!!!!! i'm on the table!!!! but i'm not the worst QM. yet. but the others will get better. right? so i'll get worse and worse and fall down in rankings? here's hoping :)

i'm looking for tips in general about starting in the medieval era. vanilla or warlords, i'd love ideas for either version. advice on what leaders to play wouldn't help my specific situation, since i have to play against 14 particular AIs and i can't play any of those leaders myself. but...

i don't care about the score, at all. i just want a time victory for my QM list. i had a good one going over a couple of weeks, 43 hours played time, and lost it since i accidentally closed civ4 and not the program i thought i was closing. as you can guess, i'm really frustrated and quite fed...