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The LeaderHeadInfos xml file dictates the leaders personalities. One of the statistics in the file is the "OpenBordersRefuseAttitudeThreshold". For most leaders this is set to "Annoyed" or even "Furious" but Edo Tokugawa is set to "Cautious". Meaning he will always refuse open borders unless...

Other cash that is not subjected to the 'slider bar' is foreign income through trade. If you sell one of your resources to another civ for gold rather trading it for another resource, this gold goes straight into your treasury.

I was quite interested in this so had a quick look in the leader heads xml file and found the following data. This is just a summary of the "NoWarAttitudeProbs" data. I take it to mean that no one will go to war with you if they are friendly (everyone is 100), no one will hesitate to go to war...

I played around with this a bit last night after reading about irrigated/non-irrigated farms. Once you've discovered biology you can build a farm on any flat plains or grassland. But unless this is connected via other farms to a fresh water source (river/lake) it will be a non-irrigated farm...

Personally, I'd like to see upgrade costs diminish over time. On the turn you discover Feudalism it costs you loads to upgrade your archers to longbowmen. But as time passes, this upgrade cost should reduce. I'd go as far as to say that unit production should follow a similar pattern. You...

In my games so far I have never had an AI civ ask me to trade my only source of a specific resource. Quite often they come to me the turn after I connect up a second deposit. But if you initiate the trade, then you can trade away your only deposit of a resource. I've done this before (traded...

In my last game I pulled my scouts back into an English city thinking that it would protect them from the Chinese who had recently declared war on me. Unfortunately the Chinese and English had open border so the Chinese charged in, destroying my scouts. Using artillery. And causing no English...

Another point to consider is that Whales become obsolete with combustion. So don't put too much effort into something that's going to become redundant.

Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents to the 10 tanks attack 2 tanks debate. Even if you attack with overwhelming numbers you will still receive casualties. Period. Before they go down those 2 defending tanks will each be able to take out one of the attackers. There's actually a fair chance...

Got home from work and checked my order and I'm "Packing". Hoorah!!! :goodjob: My order date was 07/10/2005 When I get into work tomorrow I'd better start coughing and going to the loo a lot so that they're not surprised when I throw a sicky on Friday. ;)

The really annoying thing for me is that our IT department has denied access to Play.com so I cannot even check my order unitl I get home. And due to number of hits I've made on this site in the last week I'll probably loose access here fairly soon. Anyone would think that Civ IV is not work...

To Play.com it's only worth £17.99, that's what they're selling it for. It doesn't matter what the RRP is.

In my experience of using Play.com I have only ever had items by Recorded delivery when they were over a certain price threshold. And I think (but don't know for sure) that the threshold is either £25 or £30. I've had games that cost £24.99 come in standard post. So with the bargin price of...

I'd be very wary about buying it from someone on eBay. They've probably not actually got it yet and will send it out after it's release next week. I've had this problem with people on eBay before. As for Play.com, I've only used them once before for a pre-release order. That was for...