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Is anyone else having issues with these saves? I'm getting the old "the save file you have selected is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed" error.... EDIT: My mistake, ignore me... I had not done the BTS .dll file part clearly highlighted in red on the...

I may try a religion fueled cultural victory on this one, using the extra commerce from the lake to grab as many early religions as possible and then go cathedral crazy.

I kept very few notes apart from when I destroyed the different AI's :D . It was a very enjoyable, easy going game. 1800 BC : Indians 400 BC : Greeks 1280 : Romans 1400 : Japanese 1510 : Germans & Spanish It would have made much more sense to attack the English at some point, but I always...

Cool, more new things to try :) Have I totally missed a final spoiler thread for GOTM 21? How do I submit my game?

Oh wait I remember, Ghandi had it. I only decided to build the 'mids almost as an afterthought after capturing the stone city he had. Useful afterthought :D

In GTOM 20 (Immortal difficulty, persians, aggressive AI) I built the Pyramids and they ended up being key to my victory (for much of the game I was losing money on 0% science, so my entire tech progress hinged on a few cities running specialists). I can't remember if I had stone on that map...

Yeah I agree. Slavery is the one that can most logically be moved. It's also probably the most powerful so it makes sense to divorce it from the other two. If anything I'd be tempted to move it to a religious tech (maybe Priesthood). Seems to me that ancient civs employing slaves (in the...

Incidentally, I solved this by patching up to 1.74, then manually adding correct .dll files to my system. Just installing DirectX9.0C didn't work. Thanks for the help everyone gave me. Now, to the pressing matter of war chariots...

I generally find myself taking a tech path that doesn't include monarchy, so it's difficult to justify diverting resources just to get HR. Generally by means of expansion and conquest you can get enough happy resources to keep early unhappiness away, and calendar is on or near the typical tech...

Supposedly yes, by culture bombing it (ie, creating a great work for +4000 culture), though I for one have certainly taken a large city before and immediately culture bombed it only to still have several turns of revolt. Perhaps you have to wait a turn before bombing. I'm also under the...

Thanks for your reply. I assume by redundant folder for the Mod you mean the old HOF mod folder (1.6XX)? Well, I deleted it but that has no effect. I don't know how to check my patch but I'm 90% sure I am patched up to 1.74 (been playing GOTM for a while now without problems, I think they...

I have a problem - I'm trying to run the contender save: after the HOF mod has loaded I get the message "the save file you have selected is protected to ensure the assets in your mod folder have not been changed". I then press okay, and Civ closes. :sad: Any ideas? I'm on XP professional...

Never seen that, but sounds like something that would happen if you raised a very large number of cities. Also sounds like something you can't get rid of besides waiting for peoples memories to fade :)

It sounds to me like your approach is too formulaic. No one strategy is good for every game. For example, I don't understand why you don't go to war when you get hemmed in with 4 cities early on - early is the best time to go to war before the AI has a chance to settle in, develop better...

Not easy. Relatively easy, as in compared to other immortal difficulty games :) As for Musa I stole workers from him very early with the starting warrior, and pillaged some improvements around his capital while capturing Washington, thus limiting his early growth and restricting him to 4...