Recent content by quail

A guide seems a bit pointless for a game like this... every game is different; you have to be able to adjust to the conditions. Not to mention that it's gonna change a bit every time it gets patched. On this forum we have different strategy from hundred of people for free anyway.

It'd be great to be able to access the classic SG threads easily, but how about just having a sticky thread at the top with a little explanation and link to them? Maybe the mods could decide which ones should be highlighted. Number of views is a good easy indicator, but I would just choose...

The internet should be a world wonder so that you can at least capture it from someone else. I would turn off technology and save up 3,000 swordsmen to storm the city and rocket to the other end of the tech tree. :king:

Is it possible it'll be patched? I really miss it :mad: Funny how Civ 2's presentation is still ahead of the sequels in some ways - wonder movies, throne rooms, talking advisors.

Heheh, I'm trying to the same thing to the AI in my current game. It's me at the bottom of the continent, the Incans in the middle and the Persians on top. I've just bribed my best friends the Incans into going off to fight the Perisans, so that I can sweep in for the kill while their troops are...

Not building cities so that you can keep research at 100% is ridiculous. You'll get MORE research overall with more cities, even if you have to turn the slider down: eg 70% of 300 commerce is more than 100% of 200. The base amount of commerce you generate is far more important than the...

I think the Statue of Liberty is a must-have: one free specialist in each city is huge. Overall though, it seems to me that the National Wonders are usually better than the World ones!

Cottages are one of the biggest changes really. You can't just use roads on top of your other improvements for commerce; you have to build cottages at the expense of farms or else you'll fall way behind in research. My priority usually goes something like 1. Resouce-improvements - pastures...

Ah right, thanks :D Pretty pointless to tell you that in cities that are nowhere near it though, huh. It tells you the health and happiness bonuses which makes sense, so this confused me. They might wanna take it out.

A picky question, but are marble, stone and (I think) iron supposed to give you +1 hammer in every city with access to it, as shown in the resource box? Because I don't think this is ever reflected in my cities, and I don't see it in Sulla's production screenshot up there. Unless it's part of...

You've probably done all you need to - Sid starts telling you less and less and then he just ditches you.

They could make trading resources for techs just like peace treaties: you HAVE to keep to your word and not declare war for 20 turns. As for the red options that they'll never trade, I don't like them either. Anything should have a price, unless it's gonna lead them DIRECTLY to victory (ie...

Why would you want to avoid growth? If they get unhappy then one of them will just stop working, and it'll be exactly the same as if you had less population - except that as soon as you get some more happiness in you'll have an extra worker.

Not trying to tell someone how to play their own game of course, but I find this boring. I always just choose random civ, and sometimes random world, to make each game different.

I usually only build farms if the city's surrounded by plains and can't grow. With roads not giving commerce in Civ 4, you have to get it from somewhere.