Recent content by Shrimp_toast

as an experiment I am playing a game with Huyana to figure out how useful the early religions are. I successfully founded 6 of 7 missing out on budhism to monty, in retrospect (having read this thread) I should maybe have gone for meditation first. The only real advantage has come from...

makes sense, thanks! I have just installed the latest BUG mod (Which I also recommend!)

Completely stupid but its sorta bugging me Why in the high scores chart in the game does it say "W-diplomatic" or "W-conquest", why not just diplomatic or conquest, what does the W mean? thx :)

Deity is too hard for me aswell, but its a nice idea and will be interesting to see how these play out

sorry I wasnt clear about the happy cap... London was bouncing between 2 and 5, but it was able to grow to that level in a couple of turns and I was chasing commerce rather than even more rapid growth ( the happy cap was 5). I tend to go for domination / conquest the plan is to mace rush wang...

thanks for the advice, both cities have monuments which I chopped - I'm just waiting for the border to pop, there is not much else I can build atm. since neither city is going to be research orientated there is no need for a library and a barracks will take 100+ turns without chopping...

So I re-restarted to make use of what I learnt so far taking into consideration the path taken by Gumbolt This is the empire at 2000BC I have 3 cities and am close to reaching alphabet London is admittedly only at size 2 but this is after recent whipping - the city will be back to size...

As requested...I hope this worked. I'd be interested to see how you get on, if you get a chance to post some screen caps or whatver in this thread

So I did some sums - assuming I've done all my calucations on this right... By building workboats first; 2 fishing improvements were built (granting 5F) along with 1 worker in turn 41, but the city is size 2 producing 11 food and 5 commerce. It is also undefended. If I farm floodplains...

Ok will try this next.. I think retrying the same start over a couple of times with different strategies is interesting to see where I get and how each of the different approaches plays out

At what point should I build my first settler? I went back to try and see how building work boats panned out - it does seem better. so this is London at the moment [/URL] I've Just built the first worker who can chop then mine. any opinions on whether I should build a second worker or...

Ok will try this, thanks A comment I see a lot on the forums is to play the map, personally Id prefer to run CE, but given the amount of food in my capital surely it would make an excellent specialst centre... Should I just aim for CE with London as a GP farm and ignore pyramids? There is...

I've been playing Civ4 for a while, but only recently got completely addicted, I've usually played as noble but just gone by instinct- essentially aiming to out-produce the A.I. though I did this without chopping or whipping. Recently I've read the forums and been trying the techniques but...

Thanks I've mostly been reading these forums via google searches rather than through the front page (tbh I registered cos I just couldnt figure out what REX meant - that said, they have already completely changed the way I play)

I've figured out most of the acronyms-- is there a list somewhere of what they all mean? The one I'm stuck on is REX, what does this mean?