Recent content by Ormur

I just re-downloaded CivIV and BtS and Bug mod and everything on my new computer and started a new game, no problems. But there is one tiny detail bugging me, suddenly the game doesn't display the "hit enter to end turn" message and hovering over the end turn button tells me it now wants me to...

A bit off topic of course but it's true that the economic achievements of the Soviet Union in transitioning from an agrarian to a industrial economy were very impressive. Other communist countries had more trouble emulating that success and of course the Soviet Union had trouble maintaining it...

I'm not sure Oxford was optimal in my game even if it did speed up my research a lot. The guys that it made most sense to attack first were getting pretty close to rifling and I even lucked out capping Mansa in three turns after he had researched rifling but before he upgraded everything...

Forges too yeah, and actually libraries and universities in most too for Oxford. Might not be worth it all the time but in this game my capitol was producing 400 bpt and was responsible for 80% of my research even before I started whipping the periphery mercilessly.

When I do this I usually go for cuirs and continue teching for rifling so I can upgrade to cavalry and then steel if I haven't managed to win just with them. Last game I played I had a very good cottage capital that I didn't whip and could power through those techs by itself while all the...

Yeah, I don't really build Moai statues unless I have one or two mines to work. Best to have two sea resources too. It can turn a marginal specialist city into a commerce and hammer city too.

How are you going to conduct wars with yourself?

You got two workers from capturing a settler in Civ III but only one in Civ IV.

You can see the maintenance cost in the upper left of the city view below research and money output. If you only have a few well developed cities there's no rush in building courthouses as maintenance increases with distance and the number of cities. If you expand a lot you might want to start...

I always used to promote quite a few mounted units as flankers but then I saw here on the forums that it wasn't as effective as just using combat. I've tried not promoting flanking in two or three games now and at least it doesn't seem noticeably worse. I lose a bit more units but it still takes...

I just went into world builder and removed the starting units. It didn't cause any trouble but maybe they still count against the 18 civ limit and thus prevent colonies from being spun of. I think a more proper way to do it is outlined in the King George game thread by mad scientist. I ended up...

Played an Earth game as England on monarch with no civilizations in the Americas and it's absurdly easy. I settled Scandinavia, took Paris and built the GLH. I libbed communism before I had chance to build the forbidden palace on the east coast of North America (even though I had a great...

I'd probably play as England and claim the British Isles and maybe Scandinavia if possible. Build the GLH and settle the African coast while beelining astronomy (don't know whether it's quicker to lib astronomy). Then you can start settling the Americas and Australia. Build the Forbidden palace...

When I'm running a lot of cottages and get great scientists after the liberalism race (or when I don't need them to get lib) I often find that building academies in in secondary commerce towns gives me more beakers than settling in Oxford. Bulbing techs doesn't seem very useful that late and...

You get diplomatic demerits for razing a holy city but none I know of for just keeping it.