Skulbow
The Lonely Cyclist
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2014
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- 113
I am writing this to ask for some help, some hints, clues of what I am doing wrong. Even if someone can respond to a few of my questions I would be grateful.
I have come from Civ V and BERT which I have really enjoyed and been successful and by that meaning I have had a lot of wins with all victory conditions at quite high levels. I have enjoyed the journey and the destination. With Civ IV I am enjoying the journey but cant get a win at all after 50+ hours at Warlord difficulty. I have watched a few videos of games but I am not really keen to sit through a whole game from start to finish as I would rather play my self.
I start out well and by move 100 I am always usually in the lead point wise and seem to have a massive lead of well over 100 points but as the game goes on I am usually defeated militarily or I get so far behind that I end up losing in a science race or out of the blue one of the AI players suddenly wins culturally. So my mid/late game is obviously poor. In Civ V I knew strategies of how to win any condition but I dont really know what to aim for in this game.
Any way I have a few questions which I hope some successful players can help me with.
Do you really need to build so many cities in this game compared with Civ V to keep up I seem to have to spam cities.
How many workers do I need and what is the best use for them..for example is it better to build cottages than farms? Do I need to improve every tile in my city and put roads to everything?
In the city screen there are greyed out specialists would should I do with them?
When I look at the information graphs some of the AIs are not shown so it is hard to know how I am going against them.
I seem to have to have massive armies to remain safe and my armies seem to always lose.
I have concentrated in some games on building a lot of religious buildings and cultural building to get my culture up..is this a good idea?
How do I set up trade with other nations?
Religion seems to be important I sometimes have two or more religions in my cities..is this good? What should I do with my missionaries? Is it possible to change a rivals civilization to your religion if they already have a religion?
How do I make another civ my vassal?
After establishing my empire by 80/150 turns what should I aim to be doing?
I have come from Civ V and BERT which I have really enjoyed and been successful and by that meaning I have had a lot of wins with all victory conditions at quite high levels. I have enjoyed the journey and the destination. With Civ IV I am enjoying the journey but cant get a win at all after 50+ hours at Warlord difficulty. I have watched a few videos of games but I am not really keen to sit through a whole game from start to finish as I would rather play my self.
I start out well and by move 100 I am always usually in the lead point wise and seem to have a massive lead of well over 100 points but as the game goes on I am usually defeated militarily or I get so far behind that I end up losing in a science race or out of the blue one of the AI players suddenly wins culturally. So my mid/late game is obviously poor. In Civ V I knew strategies of how to win any condition but I dont really know what to aim for in this game.
Any way I have a few questions which I hope some successful players can help me with.
Do you really need to build so many cities in this game compared with Civ V to keep up I seem to have to spam cities.
How many workers do I need and what is the best use for them..for example is it better to build cottages than farms? Do I need to improve every tile in my city and put roads to everything?
In the city screen there are greyed out specialists would should I do with them?
When I look at the information graphs some of the AIs are not shown so it is hard to know how I am going against them.
I seem to have to have massive armies to remain safe and my armies seem to always lose.
I have concentrated in some games on building a lot of religious buildings and cultural building to get my culture up..is this a good idea?
How do I set up trade with other nations?
Religion seems to be important I sometimes have two or more religions in my cities..is this good? What should I do with my missionaries? Is it possible to change a rivals civilization to your religion if they already have a religion?
How do I make another civ my vassal?
After establishing my empire by 80/150 turns what should I aim to be doing?