Recent content by asmith

I just completed it in 178. Major change in my game play was making sure get more workers much earlier, got the Great Library instead of the Temple of Artemis, settled a city near Mt Sinai like So_what did in order to farm a lot more faith and finally most of my trading routes got sent to Madrid...

Thank you both for the feedback. I am going to go away, implement your suggestions and try replaying a few more times and see what happens.

So I have replayed this map about 10 times. I kept trying different things. Eventually I decided I should focus purely on your strategy of getting the NC with 2 cities then 5 cities ready really quickly afterwards. I got to Astronomy at Turn 87. (which is probably the best time I have ever...

I don't disagree with either of you particularly. However, I am now just trying to match the same amount of Science that Valdaz had at turn 60. If I cannot even do that, then I may as well forget trying to come close to his ending turn.

Tiberiu - that is great! I am still trying to get my head around it all at the moment. I tried the map again and managed to get it to 193 which again is better but still not great. @vadalaz & Tiberiu - if it is not too much trouble, do you remember what year you reach the renaissance era? I...

I want to thank everyone for their help. I cut my time down to 203. I made some mistakes that if corrected would get my time down a lot more: 1) I founded my first two cities and went for NC. However, I did not have my settlers ready to go in order to found the other 4 I intended to create. 2)...

Wow really great game Valdaz! Thanks for the feedback on Research Agreements. Definitely will not use them then if I am going to be as far ahead as I usually am on Emperoror. Wanted to ask about the number of cities - could you have just as easily marched into Kiev and taken that over at say...

Wanted to ask, are Research agreements worthwhile when your far ahead of your AI opponents? I realise it gives you 8 turns worth of research, but I am assuming the reverse is true too (and that is many more techs to your AI opponents). So I am never sure whether to do research agreements. Any...

That is pretty much what I did with the money - buy a settler. I think I went Granary first for Barcelona. Probably a mistake. How long did it take you to get to 2 city NC - getting to Philosphy would have taken at least 30 turns? Or is there something more to it that I don't know. That is...

Wow at getting a science victory before 200. How did you get your cities so big - 35 is massive at t139. Is that because of fertility, feed the world and plowshares which massively increases food growth if your playing peaceful? Did you not have major happiness problems? I see no happiness...

Thanks for the feedback. Guilds before edu because I wanted the Machu Pichu to boost gold production. I did save money to buy libraries for the earlier NC and bought some universities too. Natural GS - I am not sure - I did not count. Faith based probably about 4 in total. Oxford was used to...

Thanks for the advice. So I made the 4th city and used lots of cargo ships to get my cities much larger (most ended in the 40s population wise). Eventually finished the game on turn 220. Which is definitely an improvement, but it makes me wonder if I can get it even lower, without having to go...

I am posting this in the hope that I can get some tips on how to play the game better. My preference is usually science victories, so I hope that someone can point me in the right direction if I am going wrong. The scene is: Isabella on a small continent with no other AI around. There is also a...

Can I say I used to play Civ IV (vanilla) all the time till about 2017 then it dropped off my radar. I thought I was doing okay with it - got to about nobie level and was winning regularly. At the time I remember coming on this forum and just viewing posts but I never remember seeing anything...

Long time lurker, rarely post. I just want to thank everyone who wrote all those articles about becoming a better player. Lots of them helped loads, to get me from a so so Noble level player on Civ 4 Vanilla, to becoming a high scoring player i.e. over 20k. This is after 115 hours invested in...