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The computer seems to know your military strength and will take that in account when it attacks you. One game I hadn't upgraded my military in awhile and Montezuma attacked me, he brought a huge stack of knights and war elephants against one of my border cities which only had a couple of...

I played Galactic Civilization and while it was far better than MOO3, It just didn't do it for me though. It wasn't like Civ4 where even after a long game I want to play another one to try out a different strategy. I loved Master of Magic, although the computer AI was terrible and only...

I was able to play a full game with the patch last night and didn't have any problems, they made it somewhat longer to finish the spaceship but not a whole lot. Here are the new costs.. Apollo Program 1600 SS Casing 600 SS Cockpit 1000 SS Docking Bay 1600 SS Engine 1200 SS Life...

Ooops one more thing, patch does reset your options so if you have made any changes (like the automated workers not leave old improvements) you need to change them again.

Here are the changes... Changes: - increased cost of Apollo Program... - increased SS parts cost... - Animal Husbandry reveals Horses - tweaked Rifling, Chemistry, Steel, and Railroad tech costs... - increased late-game tech costs... - can now add two specialists in size 1 city...

I played a ton of Civ I and II, I played a fair amount of Civ 3 but it didn't hold the same appeal to me. I really like Civ 4 though and the more I play it the more I enjoy it. I have already played at least a dozen games from begining to end and that is with having a full time job and going to...

Take a look at this strategy article here, I used a lot of it and on the last game I played on Prince I easily one a space race victory http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=141825

I'll have to try one of these mods see how they work, because I also feel the pacing at the end of the game is too fast. You really don't have time to try out any of the various improvements/units since once you do the apollo program your main goal is cranking out spaceship parts. I did...

I was wondering does research overflow from one tech to the next? For example say I am making 100 beakers of research a turn and I only need 50 more beakers to research a tech, do those remainding 50 beakers go to waste or do the go to the next tech? The reason I am wondering this is if they...

The 3 gorges dam can be useful if you have an great engineer or a boat load of money to quick build it. Otherwise it will probably take too long for you to build and delay powering your factories. Considering you can build a coal plant in 3 or 4 turns with a decent producing city, by the time...

#14 No losses Play an entire game without losing a single unit, be it troops, workers, scouts etc. The closest I have come was on Prince standard continent map I went the whole game with only losing a total of 3 units. 2 warriors and a boat.

I had a game where the only civ that was Pleased with me declared war. It was sort of funny they were on another continent and all he did was send a single ship the first time. I only had one fish resource which he destroyed until I made a higher strength naval unit and destroyed his ship. Later...

One thing I have noticed in Civ 4 (especially compared to the other games) is that the computer expands very fast and fills up the map so usually by the time you can get your tech up enough to get explorers there really isn't a use for them that I see. By the time you get them all the villages...

I really wish they would do something with space race victory, I finally beat the computer on Prince but I have also lost horribly on that same difficulty level. A lot has to do with set up, if a computer civ gets a good set up by themselves on a continent I think you are doomed. During one game...

Excellent post, I used this strategy to win on Prince for the first time. I sort of got hemmed in early so I couldn't expand as much as I wanted to. I lucked on in my set up though, I had a small part of the continent to myself linked by a single tile wide hill to the rest of the continent so I...