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On occasion I've seen the governor assign population in such a way that resulted in less overall production, but this is the first time I've seen something quite like this. The governor ignores riverside farms in favor of river-nonadjacent farms. That's just less commerce for no benefit...

I've been playing this game for years and this is something I've never gotten a straight answer on or been able to figure out entirely for myself. When do you need to build a granary for it to have its full effect the first time a city grows after building it? What I mean is, if you finish...

For a while now, I've been playing monarch difficulty and able to win consistently, so I thought I would try and make the jump to emperor. I've also been experimenting with early rushes, which I hadn't used at all on lower difficulties. But I'm having a really big problem; after I expand to...

A poll that I thought would be interesting: which set of civics do you think has the most weight in affecting gameplay and influencing/complimenting strategy? (This is really more about the categories as a whole and not about specific civics within them, but it's OK if you favor a category...

I think that drill samurai with one promotion towards shock could be pretty good against macemen. The shock will give them a strong bonus, and the first strikes can help leverage that bonus. But what about samurai with all their promotions towards the Drill line? On the one hand, they can...

I just came to Lincoln's aid in a war he was fighting against Hannibal, Tokugawa, and Montezuma. Hannibal took the city of Atlanta, so I declared war on him, captured the city, and gifted it back to Lincoln. My stack is currently situated in Atlanta (I have open borders with Lincoln), but there...

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." –Blaise Pascal I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the usefulness of specialists and the nature of specialist economies. Back when I first joined the forums, I recall members discussing the advantages and...

Is it just me, or does the AI seem to put off chopping forests for a really long time? In several of my last games, I've noticed AI capitals surrounded by dense forests well into the classical age, many times far into the medieval age as well. In my most recent game, I was able to conquer Huayna...

The idea behind exorbitantly high upgrade prices is clear. Being able to upgrade for cheap would be borderline exploitative. I recall disconnecting resources in CivIII just to build obsolete units for less shields, reconnecting the resource, and paying gold to upgrade them was an exploit that...

Simple discussion about which wonders you always go for and which wonders you never go for and everything in between. I used to always build Stonehenge because it was so easy to beat the computer to it. It also gave one or two effortless Great Prophets, so it felt practically like cheating...

I have a question to pose for all the knowledgable posters on CFC. If my capital is on the coast and the first thing I want to build is a workboat, is it better to emphasize food, resulting in slow production but allowing the city to grow, or to emphasize production, slowing or even halting city...

I like Warlords for the extra features and gameplay tweaks, but I like the themes from vanilla CivIV much more than the new ones. 1) How do I get the intro movie from the vanilla version to play when I start Warlords? 2) How do I get the planet Earth background for the main menu instead of...

A welcome bit of info as I read the patch notes before downloading the upgrade to v2.08. Colosseums have always been a negligible part of the game for me. They (used to) take more than twice as long to build as theatres but produced no culture and only half the culture slider effect. In the...

What's a good "par time" for cultural victory (not your best time, but an average time), and what do you think is the best way to achieve it? I've only attempted cultural victories twice and both times involved running a specialist economy in conjunction with the Pyramids. My basic train of...

This is just a mild pet peeve of mine in CivIV that I feel doesn't need to be there in the first place. I know many people micromanage to the point of rarely using the city governor, but I like to use him when I can to keep micromanaging to a relative minimum. Still, there are times when the...

In my latest games, I always find myself taking particularly long to found my first several cities. When I first started CivIV, I told myself that 2500BC is a good time to found a second city. Any longer and you're at risk of falling behind in the early game. And I did an OK job of adhering to...

I'm eager to try my hand at Civ online, but I can't, for the life of me, get CivIV/Gamespy to cooperate. When I try to log in to my Gamespy account (which I haven't touched with a yardstick for years now), the screen freezes up for about half a minute and then does nothing. Same screen, no error...

Of all the units in CivIV, the one I use the least is easily the musketman. Not that I don't like the musketman or that the musketman is (in itself) weak; it's just that the guy goes obsolete so quickly that he's replaced by grenadiers before I have the chance to train so much as a half dozen of...

I don't know how to open this, so I won't. I'll just go straight to the point. Instead of 5:strength: and +50% against melee, 4:strength: and +75% against melee. There, it's out in the open.;) Not a complaint. Just a thought after hearing about how axemen are the definitive...