Recent content by schulni

Hi all, I had an odd thing happen last night when I went to play: the game had changed in some striking ways. The first is that the mod I usually play with didn't load automatically. The second is that the game was barely able to run - it was like I was playing on a really old computer that...

I don't finish games because a) Civilization IV gets really tedious once you have a lot of cities and units and b) the first 100 turns are the most fun. There's nothing like the novelty and excitement of rolling a new map with random settings.

Haha, yeah, I don't post often. I do read the forum regularly and I have learned a lot that way. I play Civ IV once or twice a week, and I am an okay player, just not good enough to give advice really.

If think where we went awry here is that OP wrote a post asking about specific situations, likely expecting responses addressing those specific questions. On this forum though if you start a post in Strategy and Tips with "I've been trying to win a game on Monarch for awhile" and then ask...

Just a reminder that women can be great people too! I'd take the engineer. She or he provides good options regardless of the starting location.

Thank you! I will have a look.

Also asked in the multiplayer forum, would love to know if anyone is able to play with two other computers through LAN or direct IP (or some other configuration). When we use a mesh network, we can ping each other but we don't see LAN games. When we use a gateway network, we can get two of us on...

My friends and I have tried for about 8 hours to set up a three person game with no luck. Has anyone had success? If so, I would love to know what steps you used! We've been able to ping each other through a mesh network, but then LAN games don't appear. We can get LAN games to appear through...