Recent content by Infrared

Let someone else give you a religion or beeline Chrstianity for the AP, give a few missionaries to people that really like you and win. Military should be irrelevant if you're not near warmongers, assuming the map offers a standard amount of land. Use diplomacy to avoid war, whip if you get DoWed.

Trade for a higher happy cap if the resources are available. By the time you need more your production should be higher. I used to have a childish idea that I shouldn't benefit the AI at all, but they'll just trade it to someone else anyways. :rolleyes:

Either you were both researching it, and you stopped or he changed how his empire was generating beakers. This is not unusual if he was preparing for a war, or was running an unsustainable economy using a golden age and max scientists, for example.

Always cottage unless I'm hurting for food, or if I automate workers in late cities.

It depends really. Some situations have you rushing if you'd really not prefer Shaka DoWing you at his first war check, or if you have bad land. You might go for food, or military. The best way to warmonger is to identify how much war you can wage sustainably. So if your land is good for 6+...

1. You can plan to elephant stomp, but if you're going axe/catapult and suddenly think, "oh, I can add elephants too!" you should probably suppress that thought, as you already prepared some axes prior to your post-construction transition to catapults. 2. If you're rushing, you can pre-math...

I was playing silly.

Spent half an hour plotting my triumphant rush on only to fail. I got nothing. I await AbsoluteZero's inevitable bribe victory.

You could try mIRC and leave it idle to read later on. The problem with web clients is that people have it right there in their browser, and either want to chat or surf. People with standalone clients tend to only check back periodically. If you do download mIRC (don't worry about the whole...

:crazyeye: I was there, just I don't check my client every 4 minutes.

Foreign culture and no. of soldiers you have in the city, as far as I know. Each turn that you don't have the required number of units to put down any chance of revolt, a hundred sided pseudo-random die is rolled. I believe you can see this chance by hovering over the culture bar in the city...

AZ said in the video it was the catch the two hills which is a good idea, albeit risky. Turned out okay.

Oh boy, the trolling is too much to handle. 1. By the time the 'mids or what have you come along 3 well placed cities would be good. 2. If you're playing below monarch, you could probably go for broke.. Well, not broke. Remember to slide research down to 0% a few turns before the war, so you...

Lurker here. Idling at #civ4 on quakenet, if there's another channel please let me know.

I settled near them as I very much liked the land there - then I noticed he already took the spot, so I moved off into the desert to claim rice and cow (those bonus luxuries will be great trade bait too). I'm more concerned with the Mongols to the north - you can't accurately see it in the...