Recent content by jknox

hmmm I consider myself a noob too, but I only seem to win by Domination. XD When it starts getting into the 18th 19th century AD I feel like the game should of ended or something, so I just beat the hell out of people with my army. I usually end up with a lot of cities, I'm very...

"Once you complete building the market and bank in your gold city, build things like Military Units, Temples, Cathedrals, Courthouses and Production Buildings." Ok, that is essentially what I have been doing. XD

I have read this advice many times, as a newb this is what happens to me. I always try to specialize my cities, however when I run out of say "gold structures" for my "gold city" what should I build in that city? When you run out of structures do you just switch to military units 100%? In...

This is a total noob question as I am one, but you said how you used your two capitals to create wonders and Seoul for military units, what do you do with the rest of your cities? Do you just cater them to their terrain or just pump out units everywhere? I'm a hella beginner +4 and this is one...

These simple replies have revealed some very simple truths to my simple little mind. lol I guess I was thining in terms of every city have a unique function as opposed to simply being production or commerce. I guess that makes total sense though and already have some good ideas waiting for me...

Hi, I'm pretty new to civ. on my 3rd game. I'm playing vanilla, warlord-diff., standard, continent map as egyptians. I've got some general ideas about micromanaging 2-3 cities, but after I had developed those cities and started pumping units because montezuma was my neighbor and I wanted to...

That's what I really wanted to know. So I can build the great wall, play as the Koreans, etc in BTS. Thanks

Hi, Your posts just brought a question I didn't consider to mind. I'm used to expansions expanding on top of other expansions, but in your post you suggest that you play one expansion or the other, that is BTS or Warlords. Is that correct? You can only play one expansion? Does BTS have...

Hey, I found them. I retraded World Maps with one of the other continent peeps( again) and they showed up although very subtley. The Persions have that light blue empire color you know? Well they're pretty big on the other continent and the Americans just have one little city on the edge...

That definitely opens up the possibilities. I'm playing on settler diff, standard continent map. I'll have to send some dudes to the other side of the world.

There's just a few little black spots in the water, other than that the map is uncovered, but what seems odd is it has been a while since I pwnd them but they still have 0 troops. I'll send some boaties out

Hi, In my first civ. game and I wiped the only three cities the Americans had, the military advisor shows they have no units and I have the world map of both continents. I cannot for the life of me find out why they still show up in existence. I scanned the whole surface, the only thing I...

I really just meant in the condensed tips for noobs thread. Thanks for that list :O, that explained almost all of them.

Hi, I'm new to Civ IV and have been grinding through the condensed tips for beginners and one thing I notice is people assume you know all acronyms and abbreviations. If you use an abbreviation or acronym could you please also provide the full meaning? Thank you.

Hey, I just installed Civ. IV and after downloading patch 1.74 got the same missing component D#DX9_32.dll error. How did you fix that? Do I have to install an older DX version?