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Hi So I'm thinking to myself "Self, lets have fun and kills stuff :)" And thinking its a spiffy idea I decide to play shaka. I make a standard size pangea map, noble diff, normal speed and figure to just go on an all out war mode. Only funny thing happens. First copper is far far FAR away...

Hi After getting STOMPED in my last foray into monarch I decided to just go back and play on prince for a while more and started a game playing japon. Now I like floodplains as much as the next gal. Even though normally I avoid doing much cottaging I will normally cottage the heck out of a...

Hi In the recent nobles club game I saw something I had NEVER seen before and didnt even know it could happen. Im gonna put it in spoilers just in case ne1 still playing the game doesnt want to look at it yet: Kaytie

Hi I have been noticing recently more than a few posts regarding overlapping city placement. Especially from newbie players wondering why it is ok when first instinct is wide city placement so each city can grow and work all its tiles. Now NOBODY likes to make nice BIG pretty cities more...

Hi I am playing a NC XXXIII game and noticed this: (Im putting the screenies in spoilers JUST in case anyone is planning on playing the game Ok now what the dealio is there is one civ who has over 15K gold banked up. And another civ has 2262 gold exactly. Now in "available gold...

Hi That is is a game that uses hammers to "build" rock and roll is one of the phrases I sometimes use in response to comments about how such and such isnt "realistic". I do it to point out that the game isnt intended to be 100% realistic. But still that doesnt mean we cant TRY to always get...

Hi This is noo biggie but I do kinda like the orginal flags like the white star on blue background for american civ or the red and black flag for russia instead of that red white and blue one etc. I was just wondering is there ANY way to just turn off "better flags"? Kaytie

Hi Everyime a thread comes up about something like this or that is over or underpowered and needs to be rebalanced. Often times brought up about Prats but other UU's or UB get thrown in now and then. But prats seem to be one of the biggies that lots of people feel is overpowered. I have to...

Hi The Goddess Amarice was in an orange mood the other day so started up a lil game as Carthage. Now while in middle of taking out Toku for building an empire that clashes with her color scheme we notice this: SB has a city set to research, no biggy. BUT he has a working chopping a...

Hi I'm not reallu good enuff at this game to make guides or anything but if I were gonna make a guide about privateers I would be sure to mention that whole point of sending them out to pillage and blunder with noone knowing where they came from works LOTS better if: You dont let...

Hi YAY!! BAT finally got updated and I am loving it :). I do have one question though about the dotmapping tool. I turn it on and off using alt x or alt f10 and it looks like it will be VERY handy. But when I was playing around with it and I havent been able to figure out how to "undo" a...

Hi This has happened to me twice now. I have a cpl of edits in the civconfig.ini file. One was that for LOOOONGEST time I kept getting message about using an illegal voice capture device or something like that everytime I started the game. But then I saw a post about something similar...

Hi Over the past year there abouts I been playing alot in series like noble clubs and lonely hearts clubs. Excpet for very first NC game which was epic I been playing them all at noble/marathon. When I first started I was lbrand new to noble level so early on I got munched by the...

Hi So since playing since vanilla this has never happened. And now rrecently it has happened twice. I am just playing along and then out of the blue this happens: Yep Vicky just gives me a city for no reason. We're not friends we're not allies and she's still cautious but she just ups...

Hi Ok, I have decided to play as Amarice Goddess and Queen of the Summerian Empire. (Some guy named giggles or something THOUGHT he was gonna be in charge but a few taps on the Magic Goddess keyboard fixed THAT :) ) Now while it SHOULD be obvious as Goddess and Queen I own the ENTIRE world...

Hi After playing SB in nobles club game I decided to try another phil leader so I'm playing a game with ghandi. I'm doing ok and am at point where I am kinda dominating so mostly I am just minding my own business and building up my cities. In earlyish middle game Mansa vassalized to me cuz...

Hi I have to admit I hardly EVER use spies. I hardly ever even mess with the espionage screen. I just leave everyone at wieght 0 and just let points build up over time and I pretty much NEVER mess with espionage slider. And I USED to send spies out to destroy improvements and poisona nd...

Hi I was reading some guides in war acadamey and in one thread there was some discussion on whether or not Aztec sac alter gives benefits when whipping only buildings and not units or whether it gives its reduced happiness on both. So I made a quick game as Monty and his mean green war...

Hi I am at a point in my game where I have a decision to make. First how I got here (I know kinda long sorry hehe): Well game before this one I actually got my first ever cultural victory :D So since I just got a peaceful victory…well OK that game I DID wipe put my nearest neighbor ...

Hi So I am playing a little hempispheres game with two continents. This game I am playing unrestricted leaders using Brenus and Persia. I am on noble diff wich is no biggie for most ppl but is usually tough for me I alway end up lagging into middle of pack and have to fight my way up but this...