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A new study in the Lancet states that alcohol is more harmful than other hardcore drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine. Marijuana and other milder drugs also scored substantially lower. The researchers studied the harm to the individual as well as the harm to others...

This is my first thread in the OT section, but I came across an interesting internet article regarding Israel planning in short to move people and their families up the organ donation line if they agree to donate their organs. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35842049/ns/health-more_health_news/...

I have a fairly lengthy DVD collection that takes up too much space. I plan to copy the DVD's on a fairly big external hard drive and have done a couple DVD's every day (and plan to eventually put them all in a box and store them somewhere). So, I legitimately own these DVD's and nothing...

Hopefully, the mods will find this thread useful and sticky it to reduce the clutter on this board and keep all the advice/feedback on people’s save in one place. Anyone with useful and well-thought out advice is more than welcome to post their suggestion and thoughts. For the people...

I'm learning about the nuances of the AP and would some clarification regarding a certain aspect which is important in my current game. I'm in an interesting situation: Tokugawa is the dominant power in this game and I been forced a couple time to bribe him to peace against Churchill (who owns...

In my vague recollection of previous versions of CIV, one of the annoying features that was thankfully fixed was that the AI would no longer bring settlers through your borders to settle cities on the other side. So, why does CIV allow the AI to use a galley to transport settlers through your...

In the current game that I'm playing (check the screenshots below), Alex is becoming a monster. He's already taken Hammy as a vassal and was about to take Wang Kon as well (but I bribed him to peace with Korea and then took Wang as a vassal). Alex has developed a habit of parking his stack in a...

This question pops into my head from time to time, but I keep forgetting to ask it here. I was wondering if the AI can select you as it's target and go into WHEOOHRN mode during the 10 turns of forced peace (either through giving into a demand or signing a peace treaty)?

I'm in the middle of a game where my opponents will have industrialism fairly soon. Both of my oil resources are offshore. I've also completed the Kremlin and I'm about to complete the Internet (which will be completed around the same time as I tech Robotics). Once all those things are in, I...

Lately I've been looking for mods to add and there's one in particular that I hope exists. I'm looking for a mod where all civilizations are at war with everyone else for the entire length of the game (in other words AW for everyone). I would appreciate any info anyone can give to me. Thanks.

The game below is for anyone who has just moved up to Emperor or who is having trouble beating that level. I rolled this game the other night intending to just try to get a feel of how quickly Emperor AI’s expand and tech without actually going much past 1AD. After this start came popped up, I...

So, I read the drafting guide in the war academy and I have to admit that I don't feel that I can conceptualize well enough the impact of drafting. For those interested the link is just below: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/drafting.php I play on Monarch, although I usually win...

I think that most of us understand the factors that play a role in the AI going into WHEOOHRN mode, but I was curious of the mechanics that determine the AI getting out of WHEOOHRN. How much influence do we have in them getting out of it.

I'm playing CIV BTS using the 3.19 patch (although my problem was present with the other patch as well), the latest BUG, and with Blue Marble. Anyway, the regular game runs fine, but when I try to play a scenario like MesoAmerica or Defense, there is no interface whatsoever. It's not a huge...

I've often had the scenario where 2 pleased or better allies go to war and you don't really want to get involved. Normally, I beg for some nominal amount of gold, knowing that it will buy at least 10 turns of not being requested to join 1 side or the other. However, that does not prevent them...

I think that one of the things that need to be tweaked is that you should be able to trade techs along the same tech path in one trade. Say for example, another civ had Military Science (cost: 2000) and you had Paper (cost: 600) and Education (cost: 1800), you wouldn't be able to swing a deal...

Sometimes I play with permanent alliances on and one of the things I would add is the ability to tell your ally I'm going to attack Civ X soon, so make sure that you're ready. Too often, my ally is either unable to lend any type of assistance or has his cities woefully inadequately defended...

In terms of the other 9 traits, the Spiritual trait is probably by far the weakest. My suggestion to try to beef it up a bit by doing something like double the research rate of techs associated with a religion and the ability to make missionaries without a monastery.

Whenever I'm about to attack, I want to know what i'm going against. Is there a way of knowing the complete list of units in a large enemy stack (u know past the ... when you scroll over the stack)

Maybe there should be a maintenance depending on the amount of roads/railroads. It would reflect reality and make the map look better. What do you guys think?