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Dusted off old copy (1.09) of Civ 4 vanilla. Retail to 1.61; retail to 1.74. Bought BTS off D2D (before i saw the news update that civ 4 complete for only $10, damnit) and installed. Civ 4 vanilla loads and runs fine. BTS loads, black screen, hangs at INIT ENGINE. I have: set Nointromovies...

I've been dabbling with FFHII since .16 and just recently dled .21f. The Armageddon counter is a nice touch...as are the rather shocking side effects. Six continents, Huge, Cold climate, low sea level, marathon. Three civs were obliterated by the barbs by turn 75. Almanchier started on my...

Second Noble Game; (third in all, first was settler). Continents, Standard, med sea level, temperate. As it turns out Nap was my nearest neighbor and I boxed him in...and being Napoleon, he didn't like this. War, but he soon found out he had no horses and I had an army of chariots. I...

Standard, Archi, High water level, playing as Saladin. Picked Archi and High water for fun, thought the starting landmasses for all the civs would hold maybe 2-3 cities at most. Genghis had a freaking 10 city continent all to himself, of which we were close neighbors and my first contact...

- from a system that is below the min specs. It takes forever for the engine to initialize, but once it does I've had zero problems. ...if you don't count the single digit framerate. Here's my ancient system: 800 Athlon T-bird VIA KT133 1x512 Crucial (forget the exact specs, it's...

Rest assured, I know how to establish embassies/plant spies and undertake spy missions. My main question is this - Beyond the spy experience (dependent upon gov), does the RNG completely govern failure/success? With many of my games, it seemed I had to wait about 4 turns before I could...

First game with conquests, playing on chiefy, huge map and 7 other civs. Managed to wipe Portugal off the map, now working on the annoying, backward Germans. The war is a long and drawn out affair (no direct land route) and Democracy wasn't going to work. I hadn't tried Facist so I authorized...