Recent content by Memo

Ooh, food capital. Yes, I agree with settling in place. I have never tried for a cultural win so it would be quite the learning experience.

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I have a 4400+ (2.3Ghz) AMD Dual-Core with 2GB of RAM and it works quite fine so I must second (and third) the advice for another stick of RAM.

The problem with different victories is that we would have widly different games after a few turns, rendering useless any kind of comparison or advice among us.

BTS 3.13 with Bhruic's patch here.

Elizabeth? For Phil/Fin?

Technically, I've won one game in Noble. Duel map, conquest victory. That doesn't count though. :P

I'm interested. I started playing in Warlord but the bonus is so noticeable that I know I'll end up winning so I close the game after a while. However, I have been unable to win/end a Noble game. I'm always on the middle or the bottom half of the score table by mid-game. :/

Epic Speed - Noble I'm 7 turns away from a settler. I'm researching pottery (Agriculture > BW > Wheel > Pottery). Production was Worker > Warrior > Settler. Copper seems to be way too far away, and those three gems seem to scream "here, here" at me. So... where should I found my second city?

I think I made a mistake by founding York where I did as it has almost no production besides the forest, but I wanted to secure that copper as Hammurabi is really near. Where should I found the third city? I was thinking 2S from the gold at the left as that would give me access to the cows, the...

I finished my first work boat. Now I'm working the crabs to get the city to grow to 2 and get the forest too. I'm not sure what to buy now. I could get another work boat to get the other crabs and, in that way, make the city grow even faster, or I could get a warrior considering that I have met...

Indeed, the game was working the cows. A quick change to the forest reduced the number from 44 turns to 15 (and growing went from 10 to 30). Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for replying! Following the advice of most of you, I've settled in place. For some reason I forgot that England has fishing even when I noticed it at the start screen. The ocean tiles worry me a little, it means 2 less cottages and only 1 food. On the other hand, I seem to have (or...

I'm somewhat new to Civ IV. I'm trying to understand the logic behind some early decisions. For example in this situation, where should I settle? The game recommends me 1N which makes me lose one turn but leaves me nearer to rice when the city grows but makes me lose out on the crabs at the...

RAM is your problem. While upgrading to a new computer would obviously help you, 1GB is far cheaper and will provide instant results.