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Ok, played a good go on epic for several weeks and then just gave up, don't think i will be playing it again. I think mostly the unit tile limit although strategically interesting at first, it slowly chipped away at my patience, as time goes by, then at the point in the game where i was ready...

Every so often over the years, i dust off my Steam account and check the price of Civ V.... Now, 3 years after its release, they still want USD $69.99 for the original game???? 3 years in computer time.... that would be like saying a 1989 ford laser is worth USD $10,000 !!! When will civ...

Hi all I have been hearing allot about civ5 lately in other forums. Havn't been here for a while myself so i thought i would check in and see whats going on? I heard some rumor Civ5 is only released on Steam? Would be scary if Steam can hijack such a high profile game and i would be forced...

I have been watching a 3 disk documentory on WW1 and it has been fascinating! The way WW1 was faught bears little resemblance to how civ4 works with the same era units, except perhaps for war weriness! lol The things i learnt from watching that documentory was that the war was hardly even...

Hi I have recently moved up to prince difficulty. Early game i do quite well, infact it is safe to say that i 'kick ass' and are able to build most of the wonders i want as well. Militarily, i can usually do quite well up to mid game level. Then what always happens is the AI streaks ahead...

Hi (vanilla) Finally moved up to prince difficulty last night. I held off doing that for much longer than i should have because i can barely manage to keep up in the early stages on noble, i thought i would just get wiped out on prince, but to my suprise, this was not the case! This is...

The post that started this: Seems a bit insulting to assume that forum members don't know any better, and feel the need to pre-emptively spout off about no piracy discussions, dissapointing.

You bring up another interesting point Balderstrom. The key factor throughout history which is typically responsible for creating a large town in an inhospitable location would be mining. It is a fact of history that succesful mining towns will often have very rapid growth even in desert...

Hi (vanilla, Nobel level) I will always use raging barbarians in my games to ensure my empire grows up nice and strong! Anyhow i decided to try a huge inland sea map with only 6 AI players so there would be lots of space. Now since there are so many Barbarians attacking me, i have noticed a...

Hi (vanilla) During periods of peace when i want things to move along quickly, I find the need to be constantly replacing strategic recources and the big series of messages that i can no longer continue building unit x etc etc in city after city very tiresome indeed. Either that or i have to...

Hi I have been looking around for information relating to unit categories from the perspective of unit promotions and cannot find anything? A good example of my confusion is an archery promotion - So i would like to know if an archer promotion will activate verses a mounted archer or is it...

It is my observation that the AI will allways win a combat with all things being equal?? This is especially true for naval engagements. So am i just insanely rediculously unlucky in game after game, battle after battle or is there somthing to this? I mean i won't even bother challenging AI...

Hi I just installed the 1.7 vanilla patch and find myself the master of a banana republic on my first game (noble level, marathon, ballanced map). Early on i got about 4 techs from huts which was lucky, then after expanding a little the stupid Astec declared war on me as soon as they...

Hi I have a topic on official patches/expansions but i looked in that section and saw no activity has happened for several days so i will post here.... I have an older version of Civ4 - when i installed it on my Vista computer it said there was known issues to be fixed. For the most part...

I'm currently playing on 'Noble' level. I have noticed that it seems to be very difficult to get a ballanced game? I do pretty much the same thing each time, but depending on the map i will either streak ahead too much and get bored or i will lag behind and end up unable to hold my...

I installed civ4 into windows Vista and got a message that there are known issues i will need to get fixed. I do not have internet at home so i could not fix anything but it still runs ok for the most part. The funny thing i saw which cracked me up was..... While doing city maintenace...

I have played all the older civilization games extensively and although each version has it’s own particularly annoying traits, I have to say that nothing comes close to being as much of a disaster as the missing ranged attack (against units) from ships and artillery in civ4!! I have no idea why...

Has anyone even noticed that you cannot bombard units and terrain improvements with artillery or ships? I am suprised not to see millions of complaints... it is a disaster! I know i am an unlucky player but in civ3, instead of watching one AI destroyer cheatingly fend off 3 or 4 of my...