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Thank you for the quick response. One more question. Using your example above, if I build my city on a hill with copper, will I be able to use that copper to build axemen, etc? Or, if I build the city on sheep, will I get the +1 happiness (or health) that an improvement would give? Or...

Hello All, It seems that I always think of these questions when I'm at work and can't test them out. I've seen the game suggest that I found a city on top of a resource (corn, rice, etc). If you do that, is there any way to build the necessary improvement on that tile? Thanks, Rex

Hello again all, I've just started playing Civ IV, and I've never played any of the other Civ games, so bear with me if my questions seem really stupid. Also, I'm at work and can't look up/try this to see what happens, and some of the common terminology is beyond me so my searching didn't...

Thank you for your replies. This info should keep me from clicking 'Regenerate Map' so many times when I start a new game :). I can't figure out why I'm so tempted to keep restarting until I get an uber-starting location... It's not like I can only play the game x number of times, and the...

Hello all, I searched for this, but couldn't find a concise answer. I know that if a resource isn't inside your fat cross, then you can't work the tile, but can you still use it? For example, if I have gold, stone, iron, and horses outside of my fat cross, can I still get the +5 commerce...

Sorry, this should have gone in the Civ 4 forum. Moved. ;)

Hello all, I searched for this, but couldn't find a concise answer. I know that if a resource isn't inside your fat cross, then you can't work the tile, but can you still use it? For example, if I have gold, stone, iron, and horses outside of my fat cross, can I still get the +5 commerce...

Thank you for your help. I'm sure that it's in the manual. The problem is that I'm wasting time at work reading about Civ strategy and thinking about some things that I want to try when I get home :) Rex

Hello again all. This should really be my last dumb question. (As a side note, the 4 character restriction on search terms makes it very difficult to search this site. For example, I wanted to search for 'how to set a state religion', but of course, that won't work. So....) How do I go...

Thanks for the answer, but it brought up another question. What does 'control of the resource' mean, and what does having it do for you? Thanks again, Rex

Hello all, I searched for this, but couldn't find a simple answer. I just started playing CivIV, and believe it or not, it's my first Civ game. I've always been partial to the Creative Assembly line, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Here's my question. Say within the fat cross of my...