Recent content by Hot_spur

Sure as can be, she DOWd me three turns later. I made the stupid mistake of leaving the tiles between my border and hers unexplored so I didn't see her coming. I won't let that happen again.

I'm on turn 103 of a new game. I forgot to grab chemistry before I grabbed Ecology, and made my beeline to Cognition, so I missed building some of the production buildings early. I hope it won't affect my game too much, as I was busy mostly building settlers, trade depots, convoys, and workers...

Somehow I triggered a contact victory, so I decided to go down that path instead. Won the game on turn 241. Does anyone else find the end game graphics, storyline, etc. to be really, really cheesy? I mean, a game in 2014 can't even have some kind of video graphic ending with nice music?

Curses. I used The Unity Project mod to play as Academician Prokhor Zakharov, because he has a great science boost, but every time I tried to go from turn 157 to 158 the game crashed to the desktop. No more mods for me.

I did better this time. Finished on turn 270. Didn't get to start the Mind Flower until 226.

Curses. As soon as I loaded the first autosave, the game wiped out all of the later ones. I'll play another game and create saves as I go, then post back if it takes me 300 turns again.

Yes, standard speed. I can make a screen shot of turn 1, 24, and 94 - I don't have anything around 50. Thanks for your advice.

Man, I must be doing something wrong. I followed your guide as best I could, and I won a victory, but it took me 324 turns to get there.

I sense your frustration, and I agree with you, this game has a steep learning curve. When I say I'm a beginner, so far according to my Steam account, I've played 270 hours. (God, if only I was getting paid), and I still feel like I'm just scratching the surface. The only time I abandon a game...

Or sometimes they attack just because they're pricks. *cough* Montezuma *cough*

I'll try to address some of your questions. I always play for a science victory. I need multiple cities in order to generate the huge amounts of research I need in order to play this strategy. When I get near the end of the game I need multiple cities building space ship parts in order to beat...

Can someone tell me how to do this? In Alpha Centauri you can do it with a monetary cost. I'm not finding a way to do this in CivIV.

Darn, I had three, but I didn't know they were transports. I didn't think I needed them anymore so I disbanded them when I got steam power. Do I just put troops in them then try to disembark the troops into the city? If so, will the troops automaticzlly engage the enemy when they disemabrk...

I'm playing my first game. I have conquered all of the Russian cities except one that is located on a tiny island. It has two troops in it, and it is only one tile in size. I can't bombard it with my caravelles or my ironclads, and I can't put land units on them. I know I must be...