Recent content by jgoodguy

But if you can micro manage your cities and schedule your wars, Republic rocks all the way to the bank with about 2x productivity over Communism in C2C. You use city specialists to offset corruption or just create tax dollars or science. If you have enough food, you can turn all your unhappy...

Keep in mind that there are two 'reputations' to be considered. One is if you keep your promises and that is good for paying gold per turn for stuff. Two is your 'moral' reputation if you rop rape or raze cities. The latter is usefull for diplo victories and the tendancy of other civs to...

I had one game where I had one lux. Only one. In the late game, that is almost as bad as no oil If the RNG gods favor you, a new source of oil could randomly pop up in your territory. I've lost and gained resources randomly during a long game. You could take the horrible deal...

Check out ebay for deals on conquests. Also yahoo and amazon. I got one for less than 15.00 including shipping. But I had to be patient.

One oddity, mobile SAMs count as occupation troops. I've had few flips myself. I create workers and settlers-remember those settlers are composed of foreign citizens at first, not good for immediate use, but can be used later. Bring in natives settlers and workers to join. I seek to...

Because it does not properly use the citizens. I use it for freshly conquered cities until I have finished the war. I generally set production to wealth so that at least it does not screw up badly. Using production set to offensive unit or defensive unit often produces obsolete...

Remember that the gross corruption in Communism is the same as for Republic. But you take huge hits on commerce and thus tax income. Also you have to use pop to hurry stuff and then get an unhappy citizen as a result. I've started staying in Republic, and using the most corrupt cities as...

I once got both the Great Lighthouse and Great Library by conquest. I did not attempt to contact other civs on a far away group of islands. I waited for them to contact be, because they would have to have navagation to find me. When that happened, I got all the techs up to theory of...

Rubber was also important in WWI http://www.killerplants.com/plants-that-changed-history/20020924.asp

Or smoking or illict drugs.

Delete the game and break the cds. I've done this several times. I know where all the cheap versions are. Delete the game to slow you down. I've done this several times a day. Delete the games and take the CDs to a relative far way and leave them. Make sure they are not a gun owner...

3 were eliminated in the middle ages. 2 by me, 1 by Persia and Zulus. Zulus made it to industral and was killed off by Persia

I finished my first emperor level as Aztec . However, my tech was researching mass production in 1980 and my opponent had just finished it. So in the game year of 1980 we were fighting with cavalry and infantry when I won on domination. I did not have gold for research due to supporting 200+...

And of course Civ 4 can be CIV.

Mine was far away and long ago, in my teen years in the 60s. I think now it is illegal under the terrorist legislation to make your own blackpowder.