Recent content by OldieMagee

Methos, the game just loaded and it looks like I'm ready to play. I wonder how that file got corrupted. Anyway, thank you for the help. I knew I was missing the Civfanatics family for a reason, and it's folks like you. Thanks!!! -Oldiemagee

I installed to C:\Games Instead of the reccomended. I route all my games out of Program Files so that I can maintenence them seperately. I replaced the file and ran the checker and got no errors this time. I'm gonna try the GOTM again, thanks and I'll be right back. -Oldiemagee

Nope, it's the Civ4 I got for Christmas from my wife's family two years ago, probably the pirst pressing of the disk after the Special Boxed edition. No add ons, it's clean. But I'm replacing the files and trying it again now. Thank you for the special attention. You guys still rock after...

Okay, ran it and got some errors: Vanilla Files - Path: C:\Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vanilla: Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.dll <-- Error: Files do not...

Hi guys. I took two years off from Civfanatics GOTM to get some of my life back, but just installed Civ 4 and ran the patch for the HOF 1.74 and the patch so that when I look at about when the game loads the version is 1.7.4 FINAL RELEASE and Civ Version is 174 and Save Version is 103. Here is...

Okay, thanks, I'll try reinstalling. I'm playing PTW v1.27f

Trying to submit my GOTM in (yeah yeah, at the last minute) and I get the following error as I win the game. Any help? LOAD ERROR ERROR READING FILE Missing entry in "text\Pedialcons.txt": HURTN_RACE_Koreans The game will now exit. Thanks ahead of time, Oldie

I build wealth in cities when milking a 2050 win. Usually all my most productive cities ae building ICBMs for that last turn revenge on all the civs (remaining) that disagreed with me or I had a beef against. That'll show em' they should have traded you Iron Works for Writing and Ceremonial...

Since I've been playing my first semi-successful diety game, I'll chime in. I usually try and research techs that the AI is less interested in. Ones that don't come with perks they usually don't go after immediately. I made a beeline for Republic this game and was able to use it to trade my...

One final question: Okay, you have your 20-or-so cities built, settler time is over, what is the most common thing you start building? I'm finding that on maps where luxury and in turn happy citizens are sparse, that I plant a temple in my 2-3 core cities, library in the next 4-5 core, and use...

That's a good point. Plus I love invading someone and every city has a barracks, which heal my mens in a single turn and make the onslaught that much more efficient. I had originally planned on hooking up metal in the next few turns, but they culture pushed their way into two of my cities...

Republic was (as I found out after the trade) the only unknown ancient era tech and the trade brought me to within two techs of being up to date. The problem is that border cities are now absorbing my border towns because of the temples they build seemingly with no effort almost immediately...

I did this in my current game, the one I started this thread about, and I was able to trade it for pretty much every ancient era tech and am now almsot 100% up to speed with 20 cities. I also got a stack of gold (which they will no doubt demand back) and 20 turns with a luxury which gives me...

I forgot to ask yesterday Brennan, why use ICS? Isn't okay to leave some space between cities if only to "claim" those tiles since the AI just doesn't plop down in the most cramped spaces unless there is either a resource there or there is at least some room for the city to exist? I thought we...

All workes joined to cities and all labor done by slaves. Ideally razing cities and eliminating all continental rivals before meeting any other civs. Slaves for all eternity is my favorite, less of a drain on the economy, and seemingly perfectly acceptable to civilized type folks. :mischief: