Recent content by jhflif

I think Ragnar is an opportunist backstabber... He and Burger King repeatedly settled cities on in my hinterland which were summarily destroyed... Burger King was quite a threat for a while and I focused my war efforts on staving him off, while I let a tiny little 5 population Viking settlement...

I plan to nuke the island city Ragnar took and use it as a base from which to launch my tactical nukes against him, because he has been the biggest bastard i can ever imagine and deserves to die a horrible death

It's easy enough to defend against a land invasion... shuffle your units around, play rock paper scissors and whittle them down to SOD (stacks of disappointment) However I have been on the receiving end of a massive seaborne invasion of fully upgraded units landing right next to my capital...

I've always felt that slavery is probably the best civic to run until emancipation actually, as it allows you to control unhappiness and unhealthiness just by whipping things out. The negative effect is negligible (1 unhappiness for 10 turns). I feel like it's best to grow your cities to...

Ok, so through abusing World Builder I have found that yes, a city can found two religions and be the holy site for both of them. However, this usually will never happen and as far as I can tell, religions will never be founded in the same city so long as it is possible to avoid doing so. And...

If a religion gets founded in a city that already founded one, does it not also become that religion's holy site as well? I don't really try to be the first to a religion though, and every time I create one it tends to pop up in a city that's pretty far away from my capital and not very big at...

Nah, I don't think Colonization is bad per se, it's just less "open" if you know what I mean. The victory conditions are always the same, and there's only one type of victory... I never would have bought this game, but I lost my old Civ 4 CDs, and seeing Civ 4 Complete on sale for $40 seemed...

You would have to recompile the source code. So, no, you can't "convert" the PC version to Mac. The best you could do would be to run it under an emulator (or buy the Mac version).

I assume you're playing against Alexander? He can be a real jerk with his spies. In one game, he poisoned my cities almost every turn, so I responded in the only appropriate way, by turning his empire into a glass parking lot with a barrage of nukes.

It's just a random chance, like other events. I usually spam nuke plants because it hardly ever happens and the coal plants are too unhealthy. I got my first meltdown last night, and it messed up my city pretty good.

I always thought it was saying "Is this it?" "Yeah, over here it is."

I have won one domination victory using Rome and basically steamrolling the entire world on a pangea map (noble). After this I believed I was invincible and was proven wrong by Justinian sailing a fleet of galleons onto my shores and easily taking my poorly defended capital. I am not a war...

hmm Never thought about using it to claim religions... that alone could help you to make a giant religious bloc by controlling every faith on the continent which obviously can be immensely powerful especially in the early game :king:

I still haven't figured out how to prompt votes with the Apostolic Palace or the UN... maybe I'm dumb but I can't find anything... :sad:

Well you start out with a larger than usual portion of the map revealed and a number of points. You can use those points to place cities, give population or culture in those cities, build roads or mines or farms or make primitive units like workers or settlers. You don't get all that much...