Recent content by arcady

Wood trading and wood pillaging have actually played a major role in Asian history. There is a reason why Japan has over 90% of its forests while every nation conquered by it has been clearcut (post WWII Korea looked like the deserts of the Middle East), and today there is so much clear...

34, male, San Francisco Started with Civ I, which I played a little on my mother's computer on vacation before going into the military. When I got out I picked it up again on a computer sitting in the Office my company used back in the IBM plant in Vermont way back when I was doing a night...

If I were to structure the 'religions' in Civ, I would have started with this extremely rough sketch: Shamanism Hindu Christianity Islam Toltec Buddhism Ancestor Worship Greco-Roman Polytheism Druidic Polytheism Shinto Aboriginee Yoruba (Voodoo is a mix of Catholicism and Yoruba) And I know I...

Taoism is the philosophy of Lao Tzu, and has absolutely zero religious connections in its core teachings, although later followers did try to diefy some of the concepts - most Taoists are more like 'Socratists' than Buddhists or Christians. Buddha also stated he was in no way connected to the...

That is a branch of Christianity. It would be no more appropriate to include than it would to include 'Mormon', 'Catholic', 'Baptist', 'Voodoo/Santeria', 'Episcopalian', "Orthodox', 'Coptic (aka Ethiopian - the oldest Christian sect)', and other branches of Christianity - when Christianity is...

The religion is still alive, but its members are not allowed to accept in converts, and as such is slowly dying off. That also, is a good reason to not include it - it is against the faith to spread it, and the religions in Civ IV are all missionary. Even Judiasm accepts converts.

My list: Iroqoi - a major player in North America until the American Civil War era Koreans - the hermit kingdom, land of the morning calm, that has been the battleground between China and Japan for 2000 years. Maya - once a great meseoamerican civilization with a greater library than that at...

The only reason I did not vote for Poland is that I feel it should be Prussia instead. Otherwise I voted for every option. EDIT: Oops, thread necromancy... This thread was linked from another, so I just posted a response before seeing how old it was and I don't see a 'delete post' button anywhere.

In my last game I managed to get my leading competitor for a space race and long term ally to divert into a war when I destroyed all the alluminum mines in the third party nations I guessed it was trading with. Suddenly cut off from a vital resource, it declared war on the nearest source of the...

Though I haven't tried lakes, I'm also going to back the culture notion. When I take a city the first thing I do is rush in with theatres, temples, missionaries, libraries, and so on and try to get it to be producing culture faster than anyone around it. If facing a high culture opponant...

Tactics that work against the AI won't work against human players - and that is almost true for any tactic you chose. In my last game I defended against a massive AI invasion simply by putting all my troopes in the one city that was in the narrow strip of land between me and them. A human...

I've preferred culture wins ever since Civ II. Usually I have very underdeveloped militaries, only enough to hold off a complete takeover until I can effectuate a buildup if I need to. In old games I always made a race for 'Republic' and then used that as a spring board for a culture and...

Anyone else get a manual with missing pages? Is there anywhere I can go to get this corrected, or to at least download the parts I lack?