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When in a city screen if you move the mouse over the city name, as you would to rename, it will show the 'population' (demographic style, not citizen style, which is shown as the size-number of the city). As an example of how misleading the population demographic is, compare a size 1 city to...

Hey everybody, tonight is my first posting frenzy. I find reading the forums and articles really helpful and inspiring to play better and more exciting games. I've been reading this website for a really long time (since 99-2000), and just finally decided to dip my toe in the water. Excuse my...

That's really too bad. Call me a geek (that's not really an option on such a forum eh?), but I was hoping for a sort of cold war situation with 2-3 major blocs. I suppose the best way for this is to actually DISable permanent alliances, and use DP blocs.

Well, I'm not that new! It was available, but red on their side. ;)

I have Vanilla Civ4 only. I noticed when customizing games that there is an option for Permanent Alliances, so I figured, "Hey, let's try that out for size!" I think I understand the mechanics of it for the most part, i.e. share research, can look in allies cities, share diplomacy, no more...

I think the question clearly ignores the recent understandings made by psychologists of the variety of intelligence that can be found in the mind. Being that I am not particularly mathematical in my thinking, I have had quite some difficulty breaching the Prince difficulty (win very seldom, but...