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Hello all, I have a question about exploring social policy branches. Simply put: how the hell does it work? I don't get this system at all. I'm playing a game as the Japanese so, of course, being the great war/military civ they are, I picked sensible branches like Honor, Piety, etc., but I've...

Thanks for all the advice so far, everyone. I appreciate it. = ) @Killroyan: I would have expanded more but I didn't think my economy could handle too many more cities. So, instead, I tried to develop the infrastructure of my existing cities so I could at least have a decent research rate...

I was wondering if anybody could give me advice in a game I've recently started? I'm playing Noble for the first time, as the Japanese, and it's currently 1575AD. I'm currently in last place, but not by a lot. Since they were right next to me, I decided to go to war against Charlemagne to...

Thanks for the suggestion, guys. Upgraded to 3.13 and it works perfectly now. And I got to witness the nuclear destruction myself. O_O Hope I made the right decision, lol.

Patch level is 3.0.3.1. No mods. P.S. Who was nuked? Did any of them hit me? O_O

That's weird. In my 1990 save, I talked to them in the Diplo Screen, brought up "War with Mansa Musa", asked them what they would need for it, they asked me for Stealth, and I gave it to them. In all the different permutations I have tried to do of this scenario, it's differed from Stealth to...

Hmm. Did you wait for the turn to end? That's when my game always crashes: not right after the deal but when the turn ends. All you need to do is just make the deal and that's what makes the game crash. Other factors don't matter. I'm sure you did it right, though. Maybe I need to just...

Okay. I've identified what is causing the problem, through some experimentation Background info: I have a 1,000 point lead ahead of the 2nd best Civ. (I am about 5000.) I have my own continent in the Western Hemisphere, and I am the biggest Civ in the game. Everyone else is 3500, 3000, 2500...

Only error message is the generic Windows one: "Civilization IV has stopped working" and it asks me to try to diagnose the problem or just close the program. And, I don't know what the Windows Event Manager is or how to look at it.

Civ IV: BtS has been running beautifully on my laptop. No slow-downs or anything. 2GB of RAM, AMD Turion x2 Processor, NVidia Graphics Card (forgot model number). So, it's been running flawlessly... ...until 1990AD. At the end of the turn the game ALWAYS crashes. I don't know why. I've...

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I appreciate it. ^_^ I traded for techs, and I'm currently holding them off well. Will be ready to attack in a few turns. I'll consider switching back to Slavery and using Merchants instead of Wealth (which I was doing to expedite research). I think I'll also...

Could anyone else provide more help, please?

All right. I provided two pictures, one of the whole continent, another of my sole (and dangerously placed) source of horses. P.S. My research is at 0 only because I had it there for several turns to make money to update units.

I'm playing a Noble game as the Romans on a Continental map. Beyond the Sword. I started off on one continent with the Koreans and the Mayans. Unfortunately, it JUST so happened that, despite my abundance of resources, I had NO HORSES whatsoever, while both the Koreans and the Mayans did. So...

I am playing as the Chinese in a Standard-sized Continental Noble Game. In the Industrial Era. I started off on one, big continent with only the Incans, who I destroyed in order to consolidate the continent as my own. The continent was mine by 1580AD. However, there is a lot of useless...