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Ok I've had civ4 complete for a long time but never really tried colonization until recently. I have it installed both at home and at work (yeah being the IT guy has its perks). Strange thing here, converted natives can live among natives in their villages to learn skills... on my work...

Great suggestions, I've actually never played a mismatched civ/leader, maybe that's worth a shot for this one. Van Oranje has always been one of my favorites in the whole series. The age of sail is really only worth it (in my opinion) on marathon games, which is what I'll be playing, otherwise...

So I dusted off my copy of Civ IV and wanted to get a relatively easy game going as I am no doubt a bit rusty. I'm going with noble difficulty, and I'm going to try a tiny islands map. I always play marathon speed, huge map size. What civ, in your opinion, would be best suited for such a...

I bought the game the day it came out, and both BTS and warlords shortly after they came out. Recently, getting a bit sick of V I decided to re-live some of the countless hours of fun I had with IV, but I had lost my copy. I bought a copy of Civ IV complete from Target the other day, it was...

One interesting thing I've found, and you'll need worldbuilder to set this up unless someone out there has a script for it, is playing in Terra and moving your settler to the new world. Especially with raging barbs. It's an interesting experience. Until optics, you're out of the tech trading...

Improved AI is a pretty cheap answer. Civ has NEVER had good AI, nor has any game really. They always have fudged the `AI' with advantages to make up for the fact that it simply isn't a human thinking. I don't disagree that the AI sucks in 5, but I contend that it sucked just as badly in 4...

The only point I agree with is #6. The AI can't play civ 5 just as it couldn't play 4 or 3. Bad AI is nothing new really, to the civ series or to gaming in general.

Early scouts can actually defend themselves. They can't easily kill barbs but they can at least withstand an attack. 1UPT is full of win. Actual strategy, no more boring stacks. It's a shame the AI sucks at it, but that will be fixed in time. 1 uranium no longer means infinite nukes. Yeah...

Count me in that crowd as well. I bought a new computer to play this game (well, it was time anyway) because I knew I would be playing it in this manner. Only way to play, in my opinion.

You know what I want back? The actual time displayed. I don't have a clock in my office and I hate having to alt+tab just to check the time. So I'm voting `something else'. I do NOT want stacks back. I'm glad to see that go, and while combat isn't perfect and the AI leaves much to be...

So I'm 2 games in and halfway through a 3rd and in EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. Bismark has been hostile towards me, going to war with me in 2 games and it's looking pretty likely in my current game. In my current game, we were on good terms until I allied with a couple city states, the only one...

I've so far only played 3 games. Russia - If you like wars and building large empires, and play your social policies right, this may be my favorite to play, though I've not finished the game. I'm seriously considering going for a domination victory. Aztecs - The early UU may come in handy in...

Some of the AI's demands AND capitulations are indeed quite wonky. I've had civs relatively on par with my own either demand everything but the capital or offer everything but theirs to end wars that never went anywhere. I hope the next patch fixes that.

Thanks to cIV I have a strong aversion to settling on resources, but you're right, in ciV it really isn't as big of an issue. May have to give it a shot.

I kind of like the idea of achievements if for no other reason than pursuing them will involve me playing the game in different ways, ways I might not have tried otherwise.

Well you could try a memory hack program, there are tons out there, or hack a save file, but trying to track down something like that would be next to impossible. It's not a number like gold or culture, it's a flag somewhere.

No, that ISN'T far fetched, in fact I had a scout upgraded to an archer when I had NOT researched archery in a normal game, which is why I wanted to test this. All I did was memhack infinite movement points in a test game and grabbed each ruin on the continent I started on, and by the time I...

Just FYI, and if this has already been posted sorry didn't notice it, I did a series of tests today with some memory hacks and discovered that IN THEORY, a scout can be upgraded to a mech infantry via discovering ruins and nothing else. This was on a continents huge map, 12 civs, discovering...

Thumbs up. If I get anywhere NEAR the replay value that I got out of 4 it's money well spent.

Unless I'm missing something, no more real time clock.