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OK, I've been playing Civ IV for 4 months or so, off and on. Today I started a game as usual. I placed my city on the first turn, moved my warrior around, popped 2 goody huts, and attacked and killed a bear. The very next turn after killing the bear, I 'WON A CONQUEST VICTORY'. wtf? It...

OK, I played a game yesterday on Emperor. I was stuck on a tiny 8 city island. The nearest landmass is approx 14 tiles away:rolleyes: . I get lucky and send a galley out that survives 3 turns in ocean without sinking. I discover a huge continent with 6 of the other 7 civs together there...

In my current game as Greece, emperor level, I started with a very nice start location. Grass everywhere, several rivers, 6 furs, a couple horses, even an iron. I expanded as fast as possible, and explored most of my island, til my warriors got killed off. I found only one neighbor, the...

Who goes first? I've got a Great Leader, and just discovered Electronics. I investigated Grenoble, which was building Hoover Dam, and it says Hoover will be completed in 1 turn there. Does that mean I've lost the race or if I rush Hoover, will I get it?

In my current game on emperor, the Iroquois attacked me when I had a gpt deal with them, so I've had a bad rep the entire game:rolleyes: . So, naturally, I haven't been able to do hardly any gpt deals the entire game and I'm way behind in tech. The are 6 civs left in the game, and all of...

I'm sure this varies, or can vary for everyone, myself included. So when do you mostly decide what type of victory you want to go for.

#1, how does the computer decide to improve terrain after railroads/hospitals? It seems to me like fully automated workers almost always irrigate every grassland/plain/desert tile, but sometimes, they leave some mines undisturbed. #2, is there some sort of 'formula' to determine exactly...

OK, in my current game, with 6 turns of research for me to get the Laser and launch my ship, France sneak attacked me. I got military alliances from every other govt in the world against France, and loaded up all my nukes and destroyed half of France. When the first nuke hit, Persia, my MA...

I seem to start out every game the same: I plan to be a conqueror, but end up being a builder. I almost always have a small early war to expand (3-4 cities captured). I WANT to have a middle ages war with knights, but I always end up skipping that and building my cities. Since cities are...

The other day, I traded my gold and gpt in order to get Republic. The same turn, I had a revolution to get into Republic. My gold (of course) was already zero, and no matter what I did with my sliders I was -28 gpt. So what happened? I never lost any buildings or units. Am I paying the AI...

Vanilla civ, 1.29f. Late in the game, I got a GL. I was going to build a palace on the new continent. I moved my GL to the city and told him to hurry production. But instead, it didn't fill in all the way. Although it put a LOT of shields towards the build, it wasn't anywhere near...

Every once in a while, an AI gets really screwed. Poor Abe in my current game. He started his capital in a city on a river on the coast, with nothing but jungle for terrain. After many years of hacking away, he finally managed to produce a settler, only to settle once again, entirely in...

OK, Civ was really irritating me yesterday. I started about 5 different games, and never really had a good start in any of them. Most all were Pangeas (random) and most all had Germany even though I was a different civ every time. Anyways, I've been trying to do more early expansion...

Got this recently and LMAO. Hope you enjoy it. I've never posted any attachments yet. Hope I don't mess up.

This came up a bit on another thread, but I thought I'd expand it and see if anyone could come up with other ideas. For us more peaceful builder types, GL's can be a very rare thing indeed. It seems like there ought to be other possible ways of creating GL's to me. I've come up with a...

I've got a question for you experts. After reading a post by Sullla in another thread, I started wondering whether it's better to build a granary first, or a settler first. I'm sure the answer depends on the strength of the tiles in your first city, but I have a difficult time evaluating that...

In my current game, all 7 civs are either annoyed with me or are furious with me. I'm not really sure why. It's possible that I ROP'ed someone accidently, but I really think I declared war legally that time. The only other possibilities are that I might have broken a peace treaty early (in...

I think I've only done this once, because I always forget it's available. It's kinda scary, with the messages you get, but I've read of other people using it to successfully bully other civs into 'gifts'. The only time I used it was basically to declare war. So do you ever use this, or do...

I'm playing on Monarch, and haven't been able to master it to the point I would like to. I know a lot of you can get a victory from virtually any starting position, and I'd like to get there myself. My biggest problem seems to be when I start the game on a fairly small island. In this...