Recent content by Mathduck

I still try to build all cities that i can. I even manually set every single working tile on gold with 100% taxes to afford my expansion. Of course this may not be a long lasting situation. Workers are my key, they build cottages wherever possible. So after some turns income gets better. I...

I remember that, too :-). Perhaps Civ 5 will have the animated advisors from Civ 2, i loved them but there where too few animations and sentences. In fact i bought my first PC because of CIV 1 (played on C64 until that time). That game is the reason i am involved with PCs since the 386 time...

I would build one up and two to the right from the red spot (direct connected borders with the cultural expansion shown on your picture). The second city is the blue one. Leave borders closed. After that point it is impossible for the Americans to settle on any other color because the units...

Thanks for explaining @walkerjks I am still adapting to the new things of Civ4, some old tactics don´t work well and after the first games i even read the civilopedia :lol:

Does anybody else build SETTLERs first? I play solo on "prince". The first city builds settlers instantly which takes mostly 25 turns. The new city build settler, too and the first city another settler. With 4 cities the first barbarians arrive and i build a warrior in each city. After...