Recent content by mctavish

Times like this is where I get confused and I would like to see what others say. I would raze becuase the science slider is way to low and I would be afraid of falling behind to much.

I was wondering about possible bench marks I can set to help see where I am failing. I seem to not expand fast enough, or the other extreme. Both ways I just cannot compete agaist huge nations. I am trying to find more of a middle zone, so I figured knowing some bench marks to match my...

Shaka likes to go for an early war and then war often. I have seen him in 90% of the games I have played/started. He also likes to get vassal states and unites his religion on the island rather well making it hard (for me at least) to take him apart while keeping other people some what happy...

If you just got warlords I would nix Mansa Musa and then flip a coin between Brennus and Augustus. When I did the flip I ended up with Brennus. Obviously the gods of luck want you to play with him as well:)

So another tip you are giving me is to pick one guy and get to know that one person better? Right now I play noble (only got civ4 three weeks ago and then warlords a week ago), normal speed and then random everything else. Most times it takes me a good 10 minutes or so before I make my first...

Sorry Pete didn't mean to thank you for the help and then question the fassion in which I got the help :) I guess the only reason I play on normal speed is beucase I am a game programmer. When putting in instructions, I would set everything and make evereything work for one speed...

Thanks Pete for showing a n00b (me) a thing or two. If I could ask for anything I would have to ask for normal speed. If I could ask for a second thing, it would be make other threads for other games. It would help a couple more people (making it easier to get started when you start a new...