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    Corporations, Effective Use of

    I usually use them sparingly because if you start spamming too many, those civs will switch to State Property or Mercantilsm and stop them altogether. Bleed them just enough so it doesn't bother them. Each frachise you spawn in another civ's city, you get 5 gold back in your corporation's...
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    What are the best, safest patches for Civ4,W, and BtS?

    Just open the game, and choose Update from the Options screen. It will automatically download any patches you need.
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    What is your policy on tundra, desert, mountain and ice tiles?

    A city tile is always 2/1/1 no matter what it's on. Even if there are horses founded in your city walls, it's still 2/1/1. Your first choice for founding an edge city is a hill for the defense. For other cities, it's the crappiest tile in the area - tundra/desert/ice.
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    gold

    I tend to build 2 commerce-focused cities. Since I play Financial Civs, this is easier and I usually make my capital city my Commerce/Science city and shoot for Bureaucracy. The best commerce cities are floodplains or grasslands. The goal is to put cottages on plots that already have 2+ food...
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    What is your policy on tundra, desert, mountain and ice tiles?

    I believe what the poster meant was that these negative squares can't be worked unless you put a city on top of them. Then you get the default 2/1/1 for the city square. So if you have a 21 square plot with 20 flood plains and 1 desert, you plop your city on the desert square.
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    What is your policy on tundra, desert, mountain and ice tiles?

    Try playing a Fantasy map with resources set to Crazy. I remember my last map - my capital city had 2 tundra, 1 ice, and 1 mountain. But it also had 9 resources in the 3x3 radius. Play this type of map and you'll get over your fear of "bad tiles."
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    Desktop Icon

    You need to find the .exe file in your BTS folder within Civ4. Right-click on that .exe and choose Send To -> Desktop (creat Shortcut).
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    Problem Producing Commerce - Early Game

    When it comes to utilizing commerce tiles, the goal is to work tiles that pay for themselves. Coastal/lake tiles grant 2 commerce (+1 if you are financial). These squares give 2 food (lighthouse needed). So they pay for themselves. A gold mine is good, but it doesn't pay for itself. Plus, a...
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    Need advice to stop sucking at this game

    This is my preference too. That's why the Dutch are my new favorite civ.
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    Need advice to stop sucking at this game

    Hard questions to answer without knowing any of your flaws. I find that many newbies don't build cottages, thus lack money to keep their science slider up. Try to found a city on grasslands or better yet, flood plains. Then build cottages on every one of them. Then start working them and they...
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    Most effecient way to use spies!

    Not sure if it scales by game level. At Noble, you receive 3000 points which instantly gives you all the passive missions - meaning, you can see 100% into all of their cities.
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    AI Wonder build cheating

    My other favorite times are when the AI beelines for a goody hut or a barb city when you know they have no clue it's there. I guess it's hard for the computer to hide stuff from itself. :D
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    AI Wonder build cheating

    With the pre-BTS game, I got beaten to Great Library by 4 turns. So I cheated and rolled back. Just for grins, I played that old save out again 3 time and each time the other Civ beat me exactly at the same turn. Which is what I would expect. On the 4th try, he built a completely different...
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    Should I buy BTS?

    Game is definitely worth it. This should have been the first expansion pack, not the 2nd. It's good. The people complaining about corporations don't know how to use them properly.
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    Huge inflation

    Can't define wealth like that. Someone with a DVD isn't more wealthier than a person without. A person with a DVD is poorer. [edit - partially true as the dvd still has value]. The money he spent on the DVD went somewhere else. But we can't think individually, only nationally. In your...
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    Huge inflation

    But you still only have $20. And the US still only has $20. I think I'm thinking bigger picture than you are, to which case we both may be right. And yes, economics is a zero sum game, WITHIN itself. Economics is a factor of many things though, not just the bottom line. I'm just speaking to...
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    Huge inflation

    But then your next door neighbor just spent $20 to buy the item you just made, therefore the country just lost $20. Of course, that isn't right. No one lost money. It just changed hands. The net worth of the US is only increased by selling items overseas. I will concede that jobs could...
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    Vice grip thanks to espionage..

    I haven't messed around too much with spies myself, but have you built a spy and parked it in each of your cities? Just curious if you had.
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    Huge inflation

    Never did take Econ 101. I did take Econ 201, 301, and 401+. :D I am rarely good at explaining stuff, so I'll try again. While money changing hands is good - called Cash Flow - it really doesn't do much for increasing the money of the US - Net Worth. The same amount of money is always...
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    List of events?

    I got events pretty early. Some things trigger events to happen. For example, if you have the Slavery civic, you have a higher chance at getting the Revolt event.
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