Recent content by Dyvim Tvar

Little bug there: when I look at a puppet city, I cannot leave that screen anymore. Only way out is to use the arrows next to its name to go to one of my real cities and leave from there :) Other than that: it is still SLOW. How did people manage to build 69+ cities? I'm currently playing...

I still believe that health/pollution should be back in the game. Without fresh water supply via aquaeduct or well, no city would have ever grown to a reasonable size in prior to the modern era. Industrialisation should have the negative effect of pollution, a sewage system should be...

I'm 25 year-old male and live in Germany. I'm happy to be old enough to have played & loved Civ I.

I would just like to see a UN where you can vote on any of the government options to become standard for all. Not just the typical US ones. After all, they don't have to suit you or the AI best now, do they?

I would agree with improving the later improvements. It takes quite some time til you get watermills, windmills and workshops, but I mostly build farms, cottages and mines, because that seems to be more productive to me. Only exceptions are sawmills on forest areas, because they supply...

Use the cannons to reduce city defense bonuses. Then use them to do collateral damage to enhance your chances when attacking with other troops, if necessary. Upgrade some troops to specialize on attacking cities (city raider). Ideally have one or two with healing promotions. Depending on...

I also like Marathon games on larger maps. You also always seem to have some super-productive cities that produce the units so fast, you get all the use you want out of them... Though I am considering remodeling the game speed effects after seeing the code. Seems easy enough to do. More...

Oh. And an important addition: Buildings no longer require upkeep as they did in the previous versions of Civ. So build as many as you can. *g*

Expansion is no longer the easy key to victory in Civ IV. Of course, in the long run bigger is normally also better, but you must grow more slowly. The maintenance cost of your government increases depending mainly on three factors: your chosen civics, your number of cities and the distance of...

Maybe on a side note you might want to look into threads about specializing your cities to produce more commerce, hammers, food, great people, science etc. in other threads. Your nation will not be near as efficient and powerful when your try to have all cities be good at everything - it won't work.

Have to admit, I like the idea, hypnotoad. It's actually quite realistic to have all these people just be normal workers. They should be paying taxes though *g* instead of just producing stuff.

I would have to add acouple more problems regarding the closed borders: 1. If you allow tech trading, you will soon find yourself far behind, even with a nation focused on research. 2. You will not have any trade routes to foreign countries, again leading to severe money and research problems.

I've also been quite shocked what a difference a little trade bonus can make in research speeds at the beginning of the game. With a water tile worked or a gold mine, research points can easily jump form 9 to 12 or even 14, significantly decreasing the reasearch time for the first couple techs.

Oh - and as a side note: chess is really a test of your memory. You have to go through as many future turns as possible, remember them all and make your next move based on that. And even then in case your opponent plays flawless you cannot win. My memory was never very good, but I like to try...

Definitely Civ IV. First off, it's the same genre and Civ IV is simply more complex. Both sides start with the same but are given way more options than in chess. And besides you can prove in mathematical game theory that you qould always be able to win or come to a draw if you make no...