Recent content by NotReady4Purple

Minor pet peeve perhaps. Someone you've previously been friendly with, decides your weak enough to be prey. He declares war on you - and complains that "This war is spoiling our relationship."!

I'm sure an 8 year old *today* can play at Noble. For myself however, at 8 years old, playng most certainly did not involve anything requiring electricity. Heck - TV was pretty recent in my house at that point. :) I started Civ last summer. I've played at least once at each of the...

* Marathon Speed * Standard or Larger Maps * Continents, Pangaea or Fractal * Random Leader * Single-unit display graphics * Rarely if ever build Musketeers * Usually war early and late (not middle) * Turn-off cultural, diplomatic and domination victories; win by space race or conquest...

One way to avoid having Monty as an enemy is to be him. Quite fun if you can enjoy rampaging most of the game.

Aahh! Of course, it was a road not a mine. Back to playing. (And of course I'm a nerd, I'm posting here, aren't I?) :)

Is that for corn, grain or wheat in the city or the civ?

Well - maybe it is time to play a little less... I saw a worker using a pick-axe in front of a housing development and thought - "Strange place for a mine" :eek:

Thanks everyone. I will study that guide and try again. Good to know others have won on Diplomatic. As for troops - I had plenty - and I kept them up-to-date. (I was never attacked so it must've worked.) All of the AI were "Pleased" (even Montezuma!) - but they still wouldn't all vote for...

Does anyone have any tips on how to win a One City Game? I tried several recently and even at low difficulty levels I don't seem able to win. I assume that the only victory possible is a Diplomatic Victory - but with just one city, I didn't have enough votes to win - even giving tech's away...

Look at the reasons for the 1% that are displayed. (The green and red text that is in the lower left screen below the 1%. ) Do not attack at 1%. Wait for some reasonable success chance - say 80% if you are only willing to lose 1 out of 5 units. Are you attacking with damaged units...

I've found it works to use spies/submarines to destroy oil production. That can really stall the AI's modern development.

Lost in 1819. It was a sure thing I was going to lose - just a question of when. I'd survived the Barbs, but had made basically no progress for thousands of years. I had 4 cities and agreed to a defensive pact with Gandhi. That was dumb - as he and Genghis got into a war. Once Genghis...

Adventurer Game Barbarians - my goodness they just came in wave after wave after wave! I'm new to all the Civ games - and have only been plaing on chieftain for a few weeks- so this is quite a stretch. I couldn't get to the iron in time - so I was fighting off waves (5-6 units at a...

Do resouces (horses, marble, fish etc.) have to be in the cities' fat cross and being worked by a citizen (and worker) - or can they be anywhere in the cultural boundaries and worked by a worker? Do all worked resources have to be connected (by road, river or water) to a city? Thanks.

Hello. I am new to Civ - starting with CivIV, vanilla. Great game but addictive!