Recent content by DraconisRex

If I ran Canada... :king:

You're probably not building enough army. So they're going after you. Use the graph function and check it for "Power." If you're not keeping up with your future enemies, you're low-hanging fruit in the orchard of life.

LIke you, I've played them all. I still fondly remember the "Caravan" rush with Great Library and Statue of Liberty from Civ I. And blowing up stacks of tanks with Spearmen because you got lucky. I like Civ IV:BTS the best. Though Civ III did have some cool things.

I only wipe him out. Raze his cities and, if there were the option, salt the earth, too. I hate him with a passion. He's lost me more games with way-early wars (haven't even got archery) or held me back because I've had to fight the 5th useless war he can't win, or he just attacked for no...

I'm a builder because I find it's easier to win being a warmonger. With the most recent expansion pack, I'm having a harder time with the whole builder thing... Which is why I'm reading the forums again..

I don't have a single way of doing it, but I tend to buy a couple of settlers, or one settler and one other towh, an improvement or two, and heavy into techs.

I would suggest you check your hardware. I had a lot of problems from a bad memory stick. Once I got rid of that, everything has been peachy keen.

I started with Bismark yesterday on a huge map (Noble, I'm just getting back into Civ after a 6-month hiatus). The Goody Hut next to Berlin - Bronze working. A few turns later, IRONWORKING. Boom, I'm in the classical era and I haven't even finished Mysticism. Unfortunately, I got...

Your post was lame. You made no argument. But beyond that, taste is relative. Civ IV is, having played all the Civ games prior to Civ IV, by and far the most sophisticated of the Civ games. Each game, prior to Civ IV, had some gimmick that you could use to dominate the world: The...

Romans without iron. Russians without horses. No oil or coal.

Sounds more like you have a reading comprehension problem coupled with serious projection issues to get to this statement vis what the author to whom you responded said.

No distance penalty. Japan has one city left. The Aztecs have three. I flipped one of the Persian's with my cultural dominance. The Romans are going to have a sudden set-back because they've got every coal on the continenent (Pangea with a rare double-continent (mother-daughter) result.)...

Yes. You save a turn on entering everything but wooded hills. Over a long game, that's a lot of worker turns saved. Which can be flipped into building a few less workers to get the same improvement production and using those saved city turns to build something more useful. Like an army or a...

I agree. Never mind losing a place to build ships, the forgoing of the harbor improvement and lighthouse improvement is a killer as you still end up with ocean tiles you can't work and the added drag of losing a lot of valuable commerce, too.

I would kill for a start like that. Though, with all the floodplains and lack of obvious hills, I would actually explore around, re-load the initial set-up and then make a choice.