Recent content by eggrock

Sheer luck on my part. I didn't do a whole lot right. The only useful techs. I researched were The Wheel and Bronze Working. Nothing else was useful to me. What kept me alive was the AI coming from the south to my main (and most heavily supported) city. They left "Copper City" alone, and even...

Fun stuff, but I'm way behind in knowledge. I've only had the game for a few weeks (and only finished one game--on Warlord.) This is my first challenge. 1260 was all I could do. Not bad considering I only had archers, axes and spears--my tech. management was in typical newbie style. :crazyeye...

I figured out what this is, I think. I don't have the book/game on hand to verify but I think an 'unused', generic citizen produces a small amount of hammers, and if you work a corn/rice tile with no hammers your build time goes way up. It's either that or corn/rice has a hammer penalty but I...

Coming at Civ games (and any strategy games other than Sim City and Myth), this is a fantastic game. Dunno how long it's going to last me since I've only had it a few weeks, but I can see it playing in my PC for many months, well worth the $50 I paid for it (thanks for not dropping the price...

Bummer, that's what I figured. Time to learn Python; I'd like the name to default to the ruler's name instead of my computer name too. No biggie. I'll do that, thanks. I'm slow getting into the habit of mousing over EVERYTHING in the game (which is such a great feature.)

Well, the Oracle gives you a free technology of your choice, so if you can advance far enough along the tech. tree and then complete the Oracle, your choices will allow you to pick a fairly advanced tech., saving you lots of research points. However, it's pretty easy to build the Oracle as...

That's okay then. For the settlers at least I've been chopping forests down to increase production speed for settlers (but not workers). I've been trying to keep the military fairly powerful but minimal since I'm losing gold at an astonishing rate. Couple of horse archers (Mongolian style--I...

Thank you for the response. Attention to detail. Outstanding, and one of the things I noticed shortly after starting the game. (Not the lights/smoke, just all the little 'extras' in this game.) Basically things that I should learn on my own instead of following in someone else's...

Apologies in advance; I've read the manual but not quite thoroughly and I may have missed this info. I've never played a TBS game before, other than Panzer General way back when. I have some very simple questions. 1) If a tile has 1 food, 2 hammers and I build a cottage (and road), will my...

Hello everyone. I've never played any Civilization game--I can't stand RTS games. Fortunately for me an acquaintence on another board (gently) pointed out that Civ4 was turn based, and kindly requested that I apologize to the box after I purchased it. Which I did, a couple weeks ago. :D...