Recent content by CarlBob

Cultural win is just a weasly way of winning higher difficulties. I have no respect for it whatsoever after ghandi beat my noob ass with it in my third game :P Playing at lower difficulties I'd oftentimes be close to winning cultural not even trying, then I have to completely stifle the...

Definitly Tokugawa. He is just so sad with his no-trade policy. More so than anyone else he lags behind and just cuts himself off from everyone.

Nothing gets me harder than riverside sheep when I'm financial. Too bad it's exceedingly rare; seen it once... ever :( I think the game knows how raging awesome it is and tries to keep it from me. The one time I got it the rest of the start was garbage.

'False labels' 'full endorsement'? Calm down mate :crazyeye: A formal title of "CIVILIZATION" would be loose at best for Civ IV and can(as I said) hardly be applied to a number of the 'civs' in question. Far be it for me to say that every one of these civs are of equal historical importance...

Whoa, what's with all the Holy Roman hate? :lol: There's some serious ignorance being tossed around here. Just because two 'civs' historically have partially overlapped geographically or ethnically, etc... they don't deserve to be in the game? Seems most people just vote for the civ they...

I'm a die hard techwhore/builder playing almost exclusively marathon/huge. But I like to do my warring when I want to. I'm usually at the very bottom of the powergraph, polishing my beloved cities to a mirror shine. I guess marathon cripples me a bit due to the extremely low unit output...

I'm actually not thinking about resources, or lack thereof; I can usually tell when there's Iron/Copper/Horses laying around to be discovered. But I'd rather have no resources all rivered up with lush grassland and grassland hills to plant rows and rows of delicious cottages and future windmills...

On what? :D Finding my settler on top of dull grassland one tile short of a river surrounded by three elephants and some bananas just makes me :sad:

How does map scripts calculate and generate tiles for your starting city? Does every kind of resource/tile type have a designated value and it assigns you tiles worth a set sum equal to everyone else's starting cities? My problem: I feel the tile prospects of your first city are almost too...