Recent content by harry_flashman

If you have no cash, sell your early luxuries. You'll get 240g which is enough to maintain a decent standing army at the very least. Also settle on or near rivers. Cash flow can be a bit tricky early game. Markets will solve this. Build an archer and warrior. Don't kill the barb camps...

I have been playing honour as part of my supersamurai early steel late metallurgy domination strat with Oda Cowabunga, and would agree with the above. It plays very well with my three stages of Barb Hunting/ Expanding and defending/ KILL KILL KILL!!!! The opener. Very important this. 33% v...

So it appears to me that When you found a pantheon it automatically spreads to all of your cities and will be present in any new ones - this is certainly what has happened in my current game. Pantheons on their own do not spread to foreign cities - the fact that there is no distinction...

Does anyone have any proof either way? As Japan I'm really wanting to take Faith Healers to protect my expansive empire until Steel. However if they spread this will pretty much mean disaster when my samurai start to take over the world. Anyone who has had a foreign religion spread to...

Right, a message came up when I loaded civ. Something along the lines of your steam cloud won't sync and if you load the game your saves won't work. Loaded the game anyway as I don't use steam cloud. Big mistake. Sure enough it crashes when I try to use a common or garden save game. Gives me...

What is firetuner?

Hello Having played the majority of my civ Iv games on perfect world I just excitedly booted up a pw map to have a look. I then realised there is no worldbuilder so I'd have to play the whole sodding game to satellites before the map is revealed. There must be an easier way???

I always avoided gameplay changing mods in Civ IV. Only ever played with BUG. I always thought that any changes would be the whims of one player. and I only really got into it with BtS, when the developer had plenty of time and feedback to make a polished game. Coming to CIV, it was obvious...

In the game I'm playing at the moment the promotions show above the units head. I think this is part of thals mod, but I'm playing with a couple so I'm not sure. If a distinctive icon was given to the promotions pertaining to each base camp I think this wouldn't present a problem. I like the...

Don't suppose there will be any way of salvaging pre patch saves? Getting sick of losing interesting games due to crappy steam downloading a crappy patch. :( I kind of wish the devs would stick to working on AI and leave the balance issues to the mods. :D

One of Thals Mods, combat I think, spawns the best available non resourced unit next to the AIs capital each time you take a city. I should think this adds to the more durable AI I came up against in my last game.

Little tip - if you have high happiness and are about to start a happiness golden age, delay obtaining a golden age in any other way. I stopped production of the taj for 7 turns in order to allow me to get a happyness golden age, which was then supplemented by the taj. If I had done it the other...

Well I've got up to the Renaissance now. I have not found the workshop boost to be as overpowering as I at first thought, but have seen it change my build queue thinking from what shall I build in this city, to when shall I build it. I'm also avoiding windmills. Since I started in an area...

Fixed in the patch I believe. Bigger cities mean more money from trade routes. Specialised cities mean less city maintenance A highly promoted army can mean less units and less maintenance. A lot of cash can be made by destroying AI armies, but not taking their cities. Often they will...

actually heres a copy of the save. only one maritime now i look at it. the rest of the food comes from various livestock buffed from my smokehouses. I feel like i've got too much production now ive got 50% workshops. all intuitive mind, ive got no head for crunching numbers... i think due to...