Recent content by Dicky_Mint

Whilst I haven't ever taken out an AI civ that quickly, I have developed a nasty trick to ensure I capture the capital and take them out. If my warrior discover an enemy capital early in the game (i.e. first 5-10 turns), I immediately declare war, and simply fortify the warrior in a forest...

I've been playing Civ since it came out, with virtually no problems. I'd never had a CTD or other failure. The patches solved most of the performance problems - increasing the RAM from 512Mb to 1Gb allowed me to play huge maps with minimal lag. My PC is an AMD Athlon 3000+ with a Radeon...

I usually play either continents or terra, random everything else (including leader). Then I have to adapt my game to suit whatever I get - I try not to look at the screens as it starts, so I don't even know what size of map I'm on until I get Calendar (or build Stonehenge). I would really...

Whilst you cannot completely eliminate a unit using the default rules, it is quite simple to enable it. Edit the file Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\XML\Units\CIV4UnitInfos.xml Locate the unit(s) you want to change (e.g. Bomber) and change the line...

The simple answer is that you can't sell improvements. They don't cost you any maintenance, so there would be no benefit (other than cash) in doing so. As for the Coal Power when you have TGD built, I believe that you lose the negative (pollution) effects of the Coal Power, so again...

I'm playing Noble on a huge Terra map. I've expanded considerably, and been stuck in wars almost constantly throughout the game - my neighbours are Togu and Monty. As soon as I get peace with one of them, the other attacks. At the time, I was at war with Togu and driving him back, but war...

Sounds too good to be true, but count me in!

I was playing Romans (Noble) on a huge terra map last night. In the "Old World", I'm pinned in a corner with Japan to my South and West, sea to my East and ice to my North. As you can imagine, I've had any number of wars with Japan, and have taken a few cities off them, but they remain quite...

Have you built a well?

A few games ago, the AI pulled a cunning move on me. Early in the game I had several wars with the Mongolians, which ended when I finally captured Karakorum and forced them into making peace. However, their culture was such that several hundred years later their cultural border still touched...

My most common mistake occurs when all my cities are building something that takes several turns, and nothing else is happening. I keep on just hitting Enter to end my turn. Every now and then, the game pauses, I hit Enter again - and one of the leader dialogue boxes pops up, then just goes...

After several attempts, I've finally won a One City Challenge on Noble - got a diplomatic win in 1959. Whilst I was well chuffed to have won, it did leave me feeling slightly guilty for using dirty tactics to get there. Nothing silly like reloading and going back, but just using tactics that...

I've found a simple solution to the barbarian problem - they only appear in areas outside your curtural borders that you can't currently see. In order to keep their numbers down, only keep one unit defending your city. Move the others a couple of squares out from your curtural borders...

Of course, if you want this to be accurate then you should be able to ignore any UN directives you don't like. This should have minor diplomatic effects unless you have an OIL resource - in which case anybody without sufficient oil of their own will immediately invade.

Last night I was about 3 turns away from a time victory. I had just finished crushing the Russians, and had a stack of tanks left over, so I thought that I'd might as well use them. Germany's last city (Frankfurt) was near the border with the Indians, and I had open borders with both. I...