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[s.bernbaum]

Mark T. Kikero,

You have the governors all on automatic and are using Universal Suffrage (US), which allows buying buildings, units, etc. using gold. Your governors are spending your money as they see fit, not as you intend! I looked over all the city production screens, ended the turn and looked again. The missing money was used to complete buildings by the governors. I use BUG Mod, so at the beginning of the turn, a long list of completed buildings scrolled down the area used by BUG for messages. There were not that many buildings one turn away from completion at the end of the prior turn - they were bought using your gold. In general turning on the automatic governors is a mistake. That is what the AIs use and one of your advantages is that you can plan and decide better than the algorithm. Turning it while using US is a huge mistake for the reason you have discovered.

There is no bug, the problem is automated governors.

FWIW, I too am playing BTS 3.19 on a Mac. If you are not using BUG Mod, I highly recommend it. You can download it from the link in the Mac Forum from the BUG sticky. You will find info in there about changing a line or two in the mod to make it work on a Mac. That is easy to do and well worthwhile. After playing with BUG Mod installed, I would never do otherwise. It gives you the interface that should have come with the game. It doesn't change the game at all, just your access to information.

[Mark T. Kikero]

Thank you so much. Usually when I'm at the end of the game and going for a Domination victory I'll turn on governor automation because all I'm focused on is taking over enemy cities and don't want to be burdened with the minutiae of my expanding empire's cities. I honestly hadn't realized that automated governors can spend my gold. Thanks, again, for pointing this out.

And now to try for victory.

[CSDanger]

Hey guys!

I did not used the search function because I did not found anything already using Google by searching a solution for this bug and so I think that this also hasn't been discussed here so lets tell you what I came across:

Always when I meet Brennus the leader of the Celts he is greeting me by using the name of my civilization! For example when I play the Persians the text in the diplomacy menu sais something like "Hi I'm Brennus the leader of the Persians. My Druids will make a nice festival for this meeting."

This wouldn't be that worse if he wouldn't even steal my place away from the toplists. You know these lists which sometimes pop up and saying something like "Herodot/Homer/Machiavelli etc. fulfilled his list about the most advanced/biggest etc. civilizations". I make you an example for such a list:

Me the persians on place one
Alexander of the greeks on place two
Brennus of the Celts on place three

The problem now is that this is not how the list then show up. When Brennus is in the game the game writes it like this:

Brennus of the celts on place one
Alexander of the greeks on place two
Unknown civilization on place three (which is myself!)

Be advised that I'm not talking about the total highsore! I'm talking about these lists which sometimes pop up to show you if you have the biggest/advanced etc. civilization.

I have the Ultimate version of Civilization 4 and this bug appears with Brennus in Warlords AND Beyond the Sword! A shame that Firaxis never came across this bug. It seems like that the game think that my civilization would be lead by Brennus and in these lists it puts Brennus of the Celts on my place and calls me an unknown civilization and puts me on the place where Brennus has to be.

This bug only happens with Brennus. If Boudicca is the leader of the Celts this bug does not happen with her. I also did not come across this bug with any other civilization or if I play as Brennus myself.

Anybody know a solution?

[CivFan3991]

HELP! every time i get to the modern era on BTS, (Thomas' war) it crashes every 5 minutes! does anyone have any suggestions?