Recent content by magicalsushi

I think I've managed to resolve this myself. I've set a custom performance profile for Civ 4 in the settings dashboard for my graphics card, and reduced the power cap down to the lowest possible level. It still shows 100% GPU usage, but I think that means it's using 100% of what is now a lower...

I had to retire my Windows 7 system this year, and bought a new Windows 10 PC; a fairly high spec one. I'm able to run BtS with the 3.19 patch. But... It maxes out my GPU. Constantly. Regardless of how high or how low I set the graphics settings in-game. The game runs smoothly regardless...

Brilliant idea! Thank you so much!

Warlords also introduced a couple of wonders: the Great Wall and the University of Sankore.

From what I've read on this forum, there is one circumstance where they will accept such a trade. They sometimes make offers which are unfavourable to themselves, and you're free to accept such offer. If you try to haggle though, they will no longer agree to their original offer, since it's...

I've played a few future starts recently. In terms of civics, these differ from ancients starts in the full range are available from the first turn (also, of course, they're of different utility; environmentalism and serfdom are much more attractive than they tend to be on ancient starts)...

As others have said, there isn't such a spy mission. But perhaps there ought to be; it sounds kinda cool.

I don't think it's intended to be in the AI's best interests. It's more like a rule restriction. I don't know too much about vassalisation, but with permanent alliances, all AI leaders will refuse to sign a PA with whoever has the greatest power rating at the time. Sure, it'd often be in...

That varies. Some leaders look favourably towards opponents with lower scores and dislike opponents with higher scores, but others are vice versa. So true. Sure, it costs 300 hammers for the city that builds it, but you'll build it in a city that can easily get lots of hammers anyway. It...

I always let the city grow to size 2 before building a worker; is that bad? I'll usually build a fishing boat first where possible, and try to arrange it so that it completes just as the city hits size 2. Otherwise, I'll go for either a warrior or partial progress on building barracks (and...

If I recall correctly, you can lose the unhappiness by voting yes on a resolution which passes. It's been a long time since I played a game with diplomatic victory enabled, and I don't think I ever defied more than once in a row, so I'm not sure whether you'd lose all the unhappiness at once...

For what it's worth, Caste System doesn't allow you to run extra priest specialists anyway.

It's the just way it works. Standard Ethanol gives a city access to oil, but not the whole civ. Even if you spread it to all your cities, you won't be able to use it to build railroads. Similarly, you won't be able to trade it away to other civs. It's the same mechanism. Annoying, but it...

I use them if I run out of engineer slots and still need more hammers.

Not very keen on Stalin. I'm not a warmonger so I don't appreciate the UU as much as I should, I don't think his traits work well together and his UB is just a joke. If he had decent economic traits, fine, but but as it is, the UB feels to me like too little, too late.