Recent content by billindenver

That was my only thought, bears/lions/etc don't attack cities, and barbs never show up that early. The only thing I can think is that somehow the game made me the only player, where it usually creates 7 players. I was the only one in any of the score lists at the end.

Uh, replies like "OK, here's how you can fix the high score list" or "Happens to me all the time"

OK, I've been playing Civ IV for 4 months or so, off and on. Today I started a game as usual. I placed my city on the first turn, moved my warrior around, popped 2 goody huts, and attacked and killed a bear. The very next turn after killing the bear, I 'WON A CONQUEST VICTORY'. wtf? It...

No there's no trick to it. The AI has a minimum amount it will accept. What I normally do when I want something from the AI is put the item up on my request list and ask what the AI wants for it. Usually, they'll request an amount about 10-20% higher than they will accept. E.g., I want...

Cattle shouldn't be a bonus at all, resource or luxury. I mean really. I found my city, and there HAPPENS to be a herd of cattle or two or three there? And so I get bonus food or resource into eternity? But I can't increase my herd and graze them on other grasslands or prairies? If I had...

Unless Simcity has changed a lot in the most recent releases, it isn't even close. Simcity sucked the versions I've played. You sit there and sit there and build a building or two and hope somebody occupies it. You change your tax rate. Sit around some more. Sometimes you make money...

My current game is one of my proudest. A monarch game as Germany. My settler was stuck in tundra. It took forever to get 2 settlers out, while my Iroquois neighbors built 7 cities on grassland and plains with cattle. I decided the only hope I had was an early war, so I built up about...

Revenge wars. You know, that civ that has harassed you, invaded you, demanded tribute of you, sneak attacked, rop-raped you, embargoed you the whole game? I don't care if it occurs in 1000BC or 1950AD, I just love getting even with the AI that reamed me. I think it's the most fun...

Yep, in one game I played, a civ that had been friendly, trading with me almost the whole game, landed a single longbowman on my territory right next to a metropolis defended by 2 mech infantry, and sneak attacked me the next turn. The RNG didn't help him. This wasn't a case where the miracle...

Interesting Bamspeedy. I thought most good players NEVER used governors and I count you in that group.

I didn't think this was as big a problem on Regent but in any case, the previous post was right. You need to find a city producing 5 extra food, build a granary in it, and it should pop a settler every 4-5 turns. If that still isn't keeping up, you may need to build settlers in two cities.

I know this is a pretty late reply, but that sounds like a pretty decent start to me. How did it turn out? I'm a monarch/emperor player now. I don't recall my first monarch attempts being as tough as my emperor attempts, but that's probably just cause I have a bad memory:). Even on...

I voted for privateer. Every time I build one of these every civ in the world sends out an armada to track it down and destroy it. At least coastal fortresses seem to deter bombardment, if nothing else.

Just yesterday I landed 8 veteran/elite Panzers against the Zulu who had only cavalry/infantry. I figured they might take a few HPs but the whole stack would probably survive. Panzers should win 70% of those battles, but I forgot they'd keep taking hitpoints. The Zulus kept sending...