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These are just my random thoughts. Feel free to comment. 1. I think that of all the civs so far, I like Civ 2 the most. I can't explain it in words, but I just have the most fun and enjoyment from Civ 2, and I can play from start to end without getting bored. With the more current Civs, I...

Hello everyone, I'm teaching History classes to teenagers in school, and well Civ 4 is one of my favourite games, esp. the Rhye's mod, because it mimics world history fairly closely. So now the kids are on the topic of World War 2. My idea is to have (using Rhye's Mod), a customized WW2...

I'm stuck here.... should I automate my workers? Let me try and present both sides of the argument. 1. It takes the load off you to do anything. 2. Sometimes I don't know what improvements to put, maybe the AI can do it better. 3. Once you have too many workers, managing them becomes a...

I've been doing some modern warfare recently, and I've thought of a more refined way to fight wars. It is called Advance & Cover, because basically you have one group of offensive units, and a large group of defensive units. What happens is that your offensive units are used only to take...

Have any of you actually signed MPPs for a purpose? Everytime the AI asks me to sign an MPP, I always have this irrational fear that they are preparing for war and want to drag me into it, so I do not sign it. How can you use MPPs effectively to protect yourself? Anyone have any experience...

By building and storing lots of nuclear missiles, does it scare the AI civs as though you have a big army? i.e. You are less likey to get bullied. I mean just as in real life, how countries build nuclear weapons but do not use them. They just build a large stockpile to scare others. So does...

I've played a few games so far, but the most I've gotten is one city with abou 40k culture, the second is 30k and third is 10k...... HOW can you get all 3 cities to 50K culture? I'm really interested to try and have a cultural victory. Thanks!

I am here today to discuss the importance of GOLD. Yes, Gold. You know, that yellowish shiny thingy that supports your empire? I just finished playing my first Prince game, and unfortunately I lost to enemy space race (space race blows the fun out of the modern era), but I did have a lot of...

I see in the unit promotions that you can choose Drills, which will give more first-strikes, up till Drill level 3. I couldn't find any info about how first strikes work and what they actually do in the civilopedia or in the manual. Can anybody enlighten me? What does first-strike...

I have a few questions. 1. What is the point of asking the AI to adopt certain civics options? 2. I see the button 'convert' but there are no religions underneath it. There was one game where I founded christianity and I had spread it to the AI cities, but there was no option in the...

After researching alphabets, I am given the abiility to trade technologies with the AI. Everytime I open up the diplomacy menu and look under Technologies, Almost all the technologies are highlighted in red, which means that the AI is not willing to trade the technologies. Some of the AI are...

After researching alphabets, I am given the abiility to trade technologies with the AI. Everytime I open up the diplomacy menu and look under Technologies, Almost all the technologies are highlighted in red, which means that the AI is not willing to trade the technologies. Some of the AI are...

I have more than one computer at home, and I was thinking of having a LAN game with my brother. I know I could use hotseat, but then it wouldn't be fun to be able to see each others' actions right? So I was wondering that if I install Civ 4 on 2 seperate computers to play a LAN game, can I...

I have a nagging feeling that civilization 4 is probably the last of Sid Meier's civilization series... Anybody else feel the same way?

I recently downloaded Rhye's modpack and I found it wonderful, its almost perfect. Indeed it is very well balanced as it claims to be. Just one problem... There is war everyday. EVERYDAY, somebody declares war, makes peace, signs a trade embargo or makes a military alliance. Generally it...

For those who have played SMAC, I think you would remember the council which met once every 20 years. Perhaps in Civ 4, building the UN would open up such an option, and the civ that builds it gets advantages in initiating proposals. Okay, maybe the modern age is a bit late for that, but...

I would just like to ask you guys if you've ever used the police specialist, which cuts corruption of commerce by 2. I think that police specialsts are useless mainly because it is most of the time more worth the pop to work on a square for the commerce rather than get 2 back from the...

Emperor level games Greetings everybody, I've tried and failed on both attempts at emperor level games. I decided to move on after 3 straight wins on Monarch (So i've graduated? Yay) My biggest problem on emperor level is keeping up in tech. During my Monarch games, I would concentrate on one...

Early in the game we face barbarians, mainly warriors and horsemen, who are easy to kill, but can irritate you. Barbarians will never be eliminated, they just spawn at random when there is a neutral territory on the map. There was one game where I played till the modern ages, where I use...

After reading almost all of the articles at the war academy section, I am inspired to write my own about war tactics. It seems that nobody really knows how to use the helicopter transport and paratroopers... Last night, I couldn't sleep because I was constantly thinking of how use...