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The premise is simple: what Civ 4 opinions do you have that are contrary to the community hivemind? I'll start: I don't like the look of Blue Marble. I think that it makes the game look to dark and cluttered.

Chapter 1: How the Malinese People Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fast Food Oral tradition in the ancestral homeland of Mali states that the mothers and fathers of civilization were simply those who were too lazy to hunt. This refrain is to say nothing of any great Malinese tradition of...

Brazil is one new civ that's geared toward a very obvious victory path, that being culture. But with the wealth of new options, a few key issues, playing Brazil isn't always straight-forward. Brazil's main problems are (a) the brutal absence of production that comes with jungle bias and (b) a...

With a lot of wonders added or changed to fit the new culture game, what wonders are or aren't worth it with the advent of BNW? Personally, I'd like to know if anybody thinks the Parthenon is worthwhile.

I'm playing a game on Prince as Brazil, large map, standard time and other settings. I'm not a high-level player by any means, but it seems that the AI has an insurmountable religion advantage with the advent of BNW. I started near Venice, who, apart from the high-yield trade routes, is a...

Hello, Stories and Tales! This is my debut, so to speak, in this forum. Some time ago I read the bulk of the Celestial Bureaucracy (by Tomorrow's Dawn) and was intensely drawn in by the premise of retelling history with a civ flair. This story, inspired by his, will not be quite the same: as a...

I was bored earlier today, so I thought that I would play an expansion mod in order to add some variety to my standard Civ regimen. However, I remembered one of my first qualms with mods when I started - they force you to almost completely relearn your strategy by virtue of completely altered or...

There is a common complaint among the Civ community about the globbing-together of diverse, never unified peoples into singular Civilizations. Polynesia and the Celts are the most recent examples; Polynesia is represented by a Hawaiian leader, a Maori UU and a Rapa Nui UI, none of which having...

This is pretty self-explanatory, but I thought that it would be interesting to check the prevailing opinions on this. I expect the Rathaus to be a popular choice, though it's attacked to such a terrible civ that I find it hard to argue for. In my mind, the Terrace is the runaway winner...

I was fascinated by the discussion on the worst BTS leader. So I felt like this thread might be neat. And don't give me a hand-wavy "I depends!" answer. That's no fun. Here are my top 5, in no particular order: Pericles of Greece - Pericles has the fastest great scientists in the game, and...

So, as everybody knows, America in civ4 has been blessed with the virtues of a UU and a UB that often-times never see the light of day due to their extremely late arrivals (Industrialism and Refrigeration, respectively). However, America also has three excellent leaders - two with excellent...

The question being, is there a mod that allows for negotiations on a basic level with barbarian cities and states, and allows the barbarians to form de-facto city states and organize like tiny countries? If not, is this feasible and would there be demand for it? Thank you for your time.