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(Besides "turn off events") Maybe this has been gone over before in this forum, but it seems to me that the best solution to slave revolts is to ignore them (usually). The description of the event is as follows: Event12: Slave Revolt Prereq: Slavery Civic AND city with population 4 or...

The biggest takeaway I have from this and other Civ forums over the last 20 years is: don't build buildings. Call them white goods, or infrastructure, or whatever, the consensus advice in Civ4 and Civ2 was always to build units (or wealth, in Civ4) instead of most buildings. In Civ4, it seems...

Self-explanatory poll. I've been playing the game for 10+ years and every time I hear that damn trumpet when I am focused on something else, I pretty much jump out of my chair. Choose up to 3 responses.

Quick survey: 1. Do you always* chop Grassland Forest? If not, why not? 2. Do you always* chop Forested Hills? If not, why not? 3. Do you always* chop Plains Forest? If not, why not? 4. Do you still chop Plains forest when lumbermills become available? 5. Do you chop (non...

Due to an elbow injury, I have been forced to switch my mouse to the left hand. And man, has my Civ game suffered. Long ago, I broke myself (mostly) of my reloading habit. I even wrote a treatise on the subject . But the misclicks that have resulted from using the mouse left handed have been...

<a faint buzzing noise is heard. Winston Churchill opens his eyes.> What is this place? Reminds me of a time in Bechuanaland... Winston? Hmmm? You're not in Bechuanaland. You're leading England in her darkest hour. It's her darkest hour, already? Afraid so. But we don't have any cities...

The roots of the Ottoman nation run deep. Ours is an old land, founded among bounty, hardened by adversity. As Prime Minister, Generalissimo, Grand Poobah and Chair of the Central Bank, I have endeavoured to chart an honourable path for the Turkish people. We seek no quarrel with our...

I just realized that I’ve never beaten Chieftain in all my time playing Civ4. I think my first game was on Warlord, and I never looked back. I regularly play on Monarch or Emperor. I know that on those levels, I should build a Worker first 99.5% of the time, research worker techs, improve...

Quoted from the thread about naval combat: Exactly. The complaint about losing 3 90%+ odds battles in a row isn’t an RNG argument – it works, probably as it was intended to. It’s more that the way that combats are resolved isn’t to everyone’s liking. So, let’s look at the (other)...

Hello fellow machines! Many of you have become frustrated while playing Civ4 due to an inability to understand what causes the Human Intelligence ("HI") player to declare war. Accordingly, I have compiled this list of HI diplomacy modifiers following an extensive analysis of the HI source...

I’ve turned off vassals in my last couple of games, and I’m really enjoying the dynamic of the game without them. Mid-game wars between AIs are conclusive, more often – I just witnessed a 13-city Suliaman get eliminated by Genghis (with a little help from Monty) over a few hundred years. You...

I seldom do this, but tonight: I misclicked my :health::health::health: Chariot, moving it out of my stack that was next to Vijaynagara. As a result, I was not able to take Vijaynagara the next turn (due to units not healing the previous turn). Mao took Vijaynagara instead. Gandhi...

I’m playing a LoR game with about 25 AIs on an overlarge map (the diplomacy is, shall we say, interesting). Russia is a former minor civ that my sometime-friends the Koreans are at war with. Wang asks me to declare war on Russia, and I agree, because Russia is a 4-city civ facing Korea which...

Which would you rather see in your starting BFC? Assume equal numbers of each for comparison purposes, and 2 food sources also present in the BFC. As I see it, Gems have the advantage: In unmodded BTS, they arrive on Grassland, meaning that they can feed themselves. Gold has the extra +1...

Maybe I need a bigger/better monitor, or maybe I’m not a visual person and ignore the images in favour of the words, but there were (and still are) a number of icons that Civ4 uses for technologies and improvements that didn’t (and don’t) look like anything when they pop up on my screen...

I’ve noticed that a few naval units – Heavy Cruisers in particular, and I think Missile Cruisers as well – don’t get bonuses against Steamships, the way other modern warships do. Is this intentional? It seems odd that Destroyers should do better against, say, Protected Cruisers, than Heavy...

Give a reason, the more plausible the better, NOT to tech one of the techs in the Civ4 tech tree: 1. Advanced Flight 2. Aesthetics 3. Agriculture 4. Alphabet 5. Animal Husbandry 6. Archery 7. Artillery 8. Assembly Line 9. Astronomy 10. Banking 11. Biology 12. Bronze Working 13...

(I was looking for this guide, didn't see it, and decided to write one, instead. Comments, corrections welcomed.) Let's start off with some National Wonder facts... There are 14 National Wonders (&#8220;NW&#8221;) in Civ4 BtS. All NW&#8217;s (except Palace) generate a Great Person...

I have been busy killing Joao, much-beloved church buddy of the Taoist AP resident, for the last 20 turns or so. In the course of my campaign, I&#8217;ve had to defy &#8220;stop the war&#8221; resolutions twice. Now I have &#8216;villain&#8217; status in my Taoist cities, of course. I see...

Normally, when one of your units wins a combat that gives it enough experience points to be promoted, the promotion can't happen until the next turn, right? An annoying thing, when said unit is damaged and could use the healing + benefits of promotion during the AI's turn, when it will be...