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    Plains river start.. Hill river 1 hex over. Move?

    Subject says it all. I have a start that is a plains river. The resources around will not change if I move to the hills river the next hex over. Will losing one turn to move save me production over my next 30 turns or lose it? And yes I have also read alot of threads about this and they...
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    first social policy? Tradition?

    Tradition or no? Just for the opener. 3 more culture per turn right away and faster borders on the capital and all around. The rest of the tree seems to be crap abut that first pic seems so nice. Or just spam honor and liberty and skip that first sweet taste of tradition?
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    Does Mandekalu lack of city penalty carry when promoted?

    I did a search but did not see the answer. When you promote a Mandekalu cav unit does the upgrade still have no city penalty?
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    new patch. Your first three....

    What are your first three.. SP Production Techs or even better your first 5 or 7?
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    Setting up an MP game of friend and would like advice

    This game will be with 4-5 friends and we are willing to play multiple sessions to finish. The game settings will be as follows. This is the map type etc Ring Size Standard Emperor Speed Standard Ancient Terrain Random Shape Pressed 2 plots wide Balanced All victory conditions Allow...
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    Turn Timer

    Did a search and did not find it. How long is the MP turn timer?
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    Late Game Villages (huts)

    Do villages continue to give techs even in later in the game? When do huts all dissapear? i have seen huts when I explored the new World with ships but have not been able to actually get to them. When do huts dissapear? Do they turn into barbarian cities? I have noticed some huts being...
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    The Fast Worker/India Civ

    I have never played as India but I am looking at it. Do you like that fast worker? It seems really nice especially at the start of the game for getting a real nice jump ahead. That and they are the only UU that is going to be used on turn one all the way through the game. I am not a big...
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    Blitz?

    I am currently fighting a war and I expected my tanks to do,.... well more killing. There seem to be limitations to the blitz promotion that I had not expected. I have yet to be able to attack twice with any of my tanks. Does anyone have a concrete list of when and where you can blitz...
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    Map Suggestions

    I and some new online friends have recently acheived one of the dreams of online Civ players. A reliable group of mature players that can get together on a regular baisis and play civ 4. We play a PB game run by mysterio1000 (posts below) and have pretty much got it to go almost perfectly. We...
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    West point

    It says you need a unit of level 5. Does this mean 5 exp or actually 5 promotions?
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    Which leader is the best as an AI?

    Lets say you were going to do a Pitboss or some longer term multi player. It would be several Human players with a mix of several AI CiV, no teams. Under which leaders/traits do the AI tend to do the best as? Keep in mind that the default for these AI is Noble.
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    Can you upgrade without

    The resource needed to build the unit? For example if you can build horse archers for awhile but later lose acess to horses can you still upgrade those horse archers to knights or cavalry when you get the tech?
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    Trade network across ocean

    If I make colonies on another continent, separated by a large ocean, how do the cities on the 2 continents share the happy and health benefits of resources on both?
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    City proximity

    You cannot place a city within 2 spaces of another. Does this mean in another city's fat cross or does it count tiles diagonal as well?
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    She is settler, I am Prince, What are AI?

    I am going to play a hotseat game with my wife and I am going to let her play at settler difficulty while I play Prince. What level will the AI be? I would like several of them.
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    Which unit(s) are useful the longest?

    When advanceing in a normal game what units would you say are of the most use for the greatest number of turns? I am not asking what UU is the top although this is certainly a factor. I am asking which units would you feel stay something you produce once you get them for turn after turn. What...
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    worker or warrior?

    1v1, duel size, pangea, on quick. Going to chop alot. Starting Civ will have mining. Build a warrior first to give city time to get to size 2 and make sure the first expansion will be well placed? A second scout first to garuntee full map knowlegde? Or just get a worker out right away...
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    2 questions. One easy, one not so much.

    I have a few specific questions and one longer more indepth one. Simple ones first. 1. When you chop do the shields carry over to the next thing you build or is the excess production lost? 2. Crap, I tried to do some searching and ended up reading these forums for like 3 hours and forgot my...
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