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I have a few questions and concerns regarding map generation and the placement of luxuries. Having generated around a hundred maps in the past week or so I have noticed some definite trends. I am not sure if this is a bug or perhaps a malfunction unique to my computer but it seems that it is...

What if Firaxis were to do what all the CiV lovers say the CiV haters wanted and just update all the graphics for CIV? Call it a new expansion and charge 29.99 for it, throw in a couple new civs, buildings and units and make everyone happy?

Are cities always supposed to shoot at fighters regardless of their level of technology? I have had a couple experiences where I had flight and a civ didn't have even the right era for anti-aircraft and yet they damaged my fighters. Even a civ still in the renaissance shoots at aircraft.

I have noticed two very odd things in a game I am playing as Montezuma. The first is that Nobunaga offered me a peace treaty that included all his gold on one turn where he had 41 gold total, and then influenced Lhasa to be his ally instead of mine the very next turn. This was in the very early...

A friend of mine and I just discovered a rather profound and bizarre bug. We were attempting to resume a game we started last night. We had played 235 turns and had no issues loading the game last night as needed. This afternoon however, when we loaded the autosave for turn 235 my friend was...

My wife and I have just recently discovered the delights of FFH2 and even more recently discovered the additional wonders of Orbis. We love both and are quickly forgetting how to play vanilla BTS. I can't however wonder why in a fantasy mod there aren't any quests? I am speaking of the build x...

I had lunch with Donsig today and he expressed interest in playing some sort of pitboss game with some members of his team and some of ours included. I believe he would like to encourage people to sign up two humans to one team so that the turn timer could go a bit faster and so less experienced...

This thread is intended to house discussion and analysis of all matters military in nature. All knucklehead behemoths, evil scientists with brilliant secret weapons, generals with revolutionary new tactics, and power-hungry, blood-thirsty warmongers are welcome! Please note that we have yet to...

Niklas suggested that a thread be created to log what actions our team takes each turn and to create a repository for the screenshot data that we collect. I couldn't agree more heartily and felt it would be good for me to go ahead and create the thread myself. Please do not post replies at least...

I don't know if anyone else feels this way as well, but I am very surprised that barbarians will be turned on for this game. There seemed to be considerable confidence that this would not be the case. I am therefore posting this thread in the hopes that a discussion can be had that will either...

Hello, I typically play on emperor difficulty with the gigantic map script and marathon speed setting. I turn time and space race off, as I like my games to get very violent and only be resolved through intercontinental war. I can win with either the GL + cottage spam route, or the Pyramids + SE...

I was willing to accept that my vassals and defensive pact allies will hound my privateers. This makes no sense from a historical point of view, but I can deal with it. What irks me in the extreme though is that anyone with open borders with me can take safe refuge in MY cities! Thats right, my...

You can't create a colony if you are playing with the max number of civs? You do however still suffer the colony cost penalty! I always play with 18 civs, thanks for letting us know in the Civolpedia Firaxis! Nice to see that you can only experience the new expansion if you play a certain way. I...

Alright. I am somewhat ticked off over this. Emperor difficulty, 18 civs, random seed on, perm alliance on, locked assets, choose religion, space and time off. I take Rome, the most powerful city in Caesar's empire, and he won't accept peace. He was cautious towards me before the war, he...

Hello, I have been playing Civ IV since it came out. I have Warlords and BTS and like both of them, but I seem to have a problem. I used Smartmap rather extensively back in the Warlords era, but it doesn't seem to work properly now. The real overall concern though is this: how can I get around...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed something like this, but last night Cyrus was seriously cranking out the navy. I was playing on emperor difficulty, but he only had once city left. It seemed he was producing like two triremes a turn. I am not complaining, I had a nice fleet of caravels...

Hello, my wife and I are playing an expanded map 160x100 with 18 civs on marathon. I am stuck on a seperate landmass from all the other civs, but because a square of ocean fell into my capital's fat cross I have been able to get ships out. I have had trade routes with everyone on the adjacent...

I have been playingon Emperor for a while now with inconsistant results. I generally find that I need to fight an early war in order to have room to expand. I also find that if I am successful I can wriggle my way back into the game. The problem I am having is that it always seems these wars...

I have been playing an emperor huge marathon 18 civ game as Wang Kon. I have been doing quite well in general but have a problem. Augustus Caesar just declared war on me and came at one of my cities with four prats and two chariots. I have two archers, a warrior and two hwacha in this city and...

All this does is add a trait to each of the 36 leaders. I did attempt to keep things balanced and thus you won't find a Philosophical/Industrious type combination. However I do think it adds some interesting twists. Also I should mention that I did change some civs traits as well. America...