Civ4 Colonization Patch v1.01f Released!

How would you rate the patch?

  • Excellent

    Votes: 13 16.3%
  • Good

    Votes: 34 42.5%
  • Average

    Votes: 22 27.5%
  • Bad

    Votes: 11 13.8%

  • Total voters
    80
I just acquired this from the Gamersgate complete pack, but I can't patch the game - it's 1.0, and neither the downloaded version from here nor the in-game download work, because the game isn't 'installed' from the Gamersgate installer.

No help on the GG page of course - is there some way to force the patch to install?
 
That did it, thank you - boo on Gamersgate for not having any notice or warning about that issue
 
I have moved some units into cities to put them to work but couldnt get them to join why?
I love playing the civ game but not the game wizard a lot of you appear to be. Thanks for the help... Don
 
You need to have a positive food production to add people. Try taking a couple people out and set up your food producers first then add people to other tasks.
 
Been able to win on revolutionary on the original version more than half the time without cheating (no restarting battles after saving). I just upgraded the game with the new patch, which won't allow attacking before turn 20, ok, I can live with that (I didn't think that was broken in the older version, given you can start with huge maps and 3 opponents, most of the time you won't even find one or two AI for 100+ turns).

First game after patch I attack the Americans on turn 21 and they have 4 soldiers in their city (soldier blacksmith and other specialists ... they were able to purchase at least 100 extra guns by turn 20), fine, so I can't use the spanish strategy.

Second game I build up my settlement a bit more and send out my veteran to scout out huts and gain gold, luckily I get a scout immigrant as well, so for 30 turns I have two scouts and get 20 something huts worth of gold. I run into a dutch scout and attack & kill him around turn 35, so that he can't take all the cash from the huts. So, I bring my veteran back, with over 7 promotions now to lay siege to the Dutch capital by (only) turn 42 (I've only built three small buildings by this point, and I've gotten a lumberjack) ... the dutch have a fort, two soldiers, and two dragoons (who attack and kill my vet), another (2nd) dragoon kills my vet scout which had at least 6 promotions out scouting, and then my caraval leaves to pick up some immigrants and runs into a frigate!! on turn 42 (game has barely started). Unbelievable!!!! :rolleyes: and the buys, given that horses now start at 700 gold to buy instead of 200 or 300 .... in fact, I have not been able to make money off horse buying/selling given the new patch's ridiculous price hike on horses.

So, the Dutch have been able to build by (only) turn 42:
at least two sets set of 100 guns,
at least (5) really good immigrants (and more, as they had 3 towns)
they'd build (or bought) a frigate!!!
there were no FF at this point
They had at least 2 levels of fort development and shipyard tech (unless they'd bought the frigate from europe ... 5000 gold if my memory is correct without miniut) ... which is unbelievable given the "new" horse cost of 700 in europe!

..... puhleeeze!! I will be uninstalling the game to remove this awful patch, the original version is much, much better ... I'm sure the only people who enjoy this patch would be those who enjoy cheating, as that would be the only way to win on it at ridiculous, on huge maps.
 
..... puhleeeze!! I will be uninstalling the game to remove this awful patch, the original version is much, much better ... I'm sure the only people who enjoy this patch would be those who enjoy cheating, as that would be the only way to win on it at ridiculous, on huge maps.

As it happens I just won my latest game (with the patch) today, with no reloads for any reason, using a huge map, on Revolutionary difficulty level. During the game I captured every English colony, every French colony and every Spanish colony (Spain had 5 frigates and 12 dragoons). Then I beat up the 503 strong REF for the loss of just nine dragoons.

So yes it can be done.
 
That's great.. congratz on that.. I'm barely trying out the patch now and it doesn't need a CD.
 
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