Recent content by GenericKen

I can't seem to find a table of required culture for each great person anywhere. I'm playing w/ the iPhone version, so I don't think there's any culture menu to be found.

A new book entry has been added: 408 Handy Tips For Playing Civ4: a GameText_Strategy.xml parse

Ah, crap, missed it. Here's what I had yesterday:

But it's been that way for like a year. Why now?

What I don't understand is why all these "I hate civ 4" threads are coming out now, something like a year and a half after the game's release.

Re Pentagon> You can't rush 7 tanks with a great engineer. Additionally, when roughly on military parity with other civilizations, the pentagon gives an edge that translates dispropotianately in combat. i.e. 32 vs 28 = 70% vs 30%, which is further amplified by the effects of the tank's...

Sid Meier is Lutheran and Will Wright is "avowed" Atheist? Hm, makes sense now that I think about it. Interesting.

I hope you guys don't mind my asking. 1) What's the difference between Cy and Cv? 2) Also, where are the APIs that are *not* defined in the SDK defined (i.e. which dll or library?) I think I'd like to see some of the functions' logic, not that I'd run them through a decompiler or...

Stepping back into theorycrafting, Liberalism is so powreful because it's one of the first techs to give a payoff immediately upon discovering it, without having to build axemen or wonders or improvements. Aside from religion and civics (which could put you in deep water with your neighbors...

Hey. I was scouring over over the FAQs, tutorials, wikis, and API definitions, and I'm having trouble finding some basic information about Civ's modding support. 1) What's the "timeline" for when different parts of the SDK are getting released? It was nice to get GameCoreDLL, are we going to...

Even the hoover dam? It's being eclipsed, sure, but it's pretty old.

Last *bump*. Nobody knows exactly how much of the guts of the game are exposed?

How can the Statue of Liberty be a wonder-of-the-world-proper when it was given to us as a gift from the French... and they kept a spare?

Hey everyone. A bit bored, I started thumbing through the SDK, and an interseting little entry titled "SAVEGAME_REPLAY" piqued my interest. I always found civ's HoF replay screen to be a bit disapointing, and I think I'd like to try my hand at a mod to build in true replay functionality...

Getting players seaborne is hard enough without a resource requirement on boats.