Recent content by Powerslave

I've recently returned to playing Civ4 after a break of several years. It's fun to rediscover some of my favorite civs, UBs, and UUs. I'm a lazy player, and I favor strategies that don't require excessive micromanagement. Spiritual is a strong trait that remains useful through the entire...

Civ 3 was, beyond a doubt, the worst of the series, in my opinion. Civ 3 was like doing your taxes. Some autistic people really get into that (doing taxes and Civ 3, both), so I guess there's always going to be some people who love Civ 3 to death. Civ 4 was basically Alpha Centauri with...

We have a separate area for forum games.

Yeah, console programming experience required. Not really interested in console programming, and have no experience. I guess maybe I should learn it, if I'm going to get a decent-paying job in Maryland, though. Ha.

Hmm. Some of those are actually quite good. I think I'll implement them in my game.

It's frequently not even worth conquering people on a different continent. Of course, if you're going for a domination or conquest victory, then it makes perfect sense to collect vassals and/or colonies. Otherwise, you're better off just staying on your home continent and going for a more...

There are a few ways you can disturb someone's research, if it's critical that you get a tech first: Bribe them to change all their civics at once. They'll lose a massive amount of turns on the slower speeds (epic and marathon). Of course, this works best if you can change your civics...

If you're concerned with diplomacy in any way, you're better off just killing everyone, amusingly. I never thought that being a genocidal psychopath would result in better diplomatic relations than being a imperialist pig, but taking a "-1 You committed genocide on our bff" isn't so bad, really.

No need to mess with the config file. It's got nothing good in it, unless you have really specific needs, such as setting the default resolution or disabling features that cause graphical glitches. You'll probably find it in your games folder, off your home directory (...\My Games\Civ...

Add them to your enemies' cities: Prostitute +1 :yuck:, +1 :gold: in increased maintenance Career Bureaucrat +1 :mad:, +1 :gold: in increased maintenance Corrupt Politician +3 :mad:, +5 :gold: in increased maintenance, -3 :espionage: Greedy CEO +5 :mad:, +3 :gold: in increased...

There's no console. Press control-W to enter the World Builder, a scenario editor.

Yeah, but how did you get so much money, when many of the AIs are frequently broke? Did you trade your maps around directly after a failed wonder race? I should really try that, now that I think of it. I'm usually good at fleecing the AIs of all their money, but $10K is just unheard of, in my...

As I understand it, one of the design goals of BtS was to make the game more compelling during the modern age. While I like some of the changes made in BtS, I have to wonder if anyone truly ever is threatened by an AI in the Modern or Future ages. For me, the later the game goes on, the more...

BetterAI fixes most of the worker AI problems. Still, I don't see a problem with automating workers. There're generally only a few decisions that need to be made, and many of the decisions are only applicable after the Renaissance, anyway. Unless you have Civil Service, you're going to be...

Pillage enemy cottages? But those will be my cottages soon! I used to love pillaging the hell out of my enemies, but ever since Civ 4, I just can't bring myself to do it any more.