Hi Everyone,
First let me say how nice it is to find this community resource and how pleased I am, after reading a bunch of the posts, that the group is mature and dedicated to this series of games! I have never played any of the Civilization games until this week (I know boo me). I have however played many others including all the Warcrafts, Age of Empires, SW Battlefields, and many others I can't recall without looking in the closet at the stack of old games.
Second, let me say: OMG Civilization is the hardest of them all! LOL
Third: Here is how I have gotten into Civ4 so late: I bought CivRev earlier this week. Played it heavily and really, really enjoyed it. Then on Friday, after playing one game for 8 hours and coming damn close to a Space Race victory on the Third difficulty level, the game MELTED my PS3. Literally. It burned out the Blue Ray laser, according to Sony Tech support. At least they are fixing it for me. Anyway, because I now had an insatiable demand to play the game, I went out and got Civ4 Gold for my PC.
After playing Civ4 all day yesterday and all night (into the wee hours) the only game I have won is the stinking tutorial! After initially playing the tutorial, I went on to the lowest rank and I'll be damned if I can win anything. Trying a hurry blitz at the beginning to take out a neighbor fails. Trying a late game blitz alway fails, too. It appears no matter what, my units are always weaker. I saw an enemy come in with tanks and obliterate half my kingdom, so I back loaded to a save and built the hell out of some tanks. When I went to take his nearest city, his Infantry took my tanks out without even blinking... My Infantry wasn't so lucky when he did it to me.
Anyway, that's just me ranting... I'll learn and get over it, lol.
Here are my real questions: On the tech tree, if you go down the right and click on one further down the road, it appears that game highlights everything you'll need to get there, and if you press OK at that point, it automatically starts learning in order to get you there. It seems that it highlights and wants to learn some techs that it doesn't actually need though. Like some techs that dead end with no arrows that go further... would seem to me that a dead end tech without arrows going out isn't truly 'needed.' Anyway, I welcome some advice on this, and managing the tech tree.
TIA
Kilgore
First let me say how nice it is to find this community resource and how pleased I am, after reading a bunch of the posts, that the group is mature and dedicated to this series of games! I have never played any of the Civilization games until this week (I know boo me). I have however played many others including all the Warcrafts, Age of Empires, SW Battlefields, and many others I can't recall without looking in the closet at the stack of old games.
Second, let me say: OMG Civilization is the hardest of them all! LOL
Third: Here is how I have gotten into Civ4 so late: I bought CivRev earlier this week. Played it heavily and really, really enjoyed it. Then on Friday, after playing one game for 8 hours and coming damn close to a Space Race victory on the Third difficulty level, the game MELTED my PS3. Literally. It burned out the Blue Ray laser, according to Sony Tech support. At least they are fixing it for me. Anyway, because I now had an insatiable demand to play the game, I went out and got Civ4 Gold for my PC.
After playing Civ4 all day yesterday and all night (into the wee hours) the only game I have won is the stinking tutorial! After initially playing the tutorial, I went on to the lowest rank and I'll be damned if I can win anything. Trying a hurry blitz at the beginning to take out a neighbor fails. Trying a late game blitz alway fails, too. It appears no matter what, my units are always weaker. I saw an enemy come in with tanks and obliterate half my kingdom, so I back loaded to a save and built the hell out of some tanks. When I went to take his nearest city, his Infantry took my tanks out without even blinking... My Infantry wasn't so lucky when he did it to me.
Anyway, that's just me ranting... I'll learn and get over it, lol.
Here are my real questions: On the tech tree, if you go down the right and click on one further down the road, it appears that game highlights everything you'll need to get there, and if you press OK at that point, it automatically starts learning in order to get you there. It seems that it highlights and wants to learn some techs that it doesn't actually need though. Like some techs that dead end with no arrows that go further... would seem to me that a dead end tech without arrows going out isn't truly 'needed.' Anyway, I welcome some advice on this, and managing the tech tree.
TIA
Kilgore