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I found this in the wikia quoted from the Pre*BTS Civilopedia "If a mission is successful, the target civilization will not know who performed the mission; thus that civilization's opinion of you will not change. If the mission is a failure, the target civilization will know exactly who is...

what sound like some good points there. Now, onto spies I have a couple in one game I am flogging to death (year 2091AD...) 1. When you have spy get another player's (I only play vs AI) 'plans', where do you go to see the plans ? Otherwise I've wasted a spy. 2. After one mission by...

In the light of further (and unfortunate) experience, I have learned that 1. enemy fighters on intercept seem to cover their whole range, ie 6 tiles for fighters, not just the city tile of their origin 2. while in 'bomb' mode, at least, if you are intercepted by an enemy fighter there is...

So, I conclude that an enemy aircraft on intercept duty cannot be damaged or removed. Moreover, enemy aircraft 'on the ground' cannot be damaged or destroyed. In fact, the only way enemy aircraft can be damaged or destroyed is they attack you AND they get intercepted by one of your aircraft...

I've realized that culture, of course, can be slowiy increased by trading it off against research contribution SmallBrain 12.April.2016

-> Lennier, Pangaea So, it's about culture. More than that it's about the culture status of adjacent individual cities, namely Rome and Seville. I can only get more culture by building cultural buildings, and, I've built the "ordinary" ones (theatre, palace, castle), I'll have to the...

I was surprised and annoyed when I noticed that Julius Caesar (Purple) taken some 'tiles' from me (Seville, orange), for example, a 'tile' with a mine on it as shown by the two attached screenshots one from 1986AD and the other from 2006AD Previously I had also built a farm to the NE of the...

I have fighters on a carrier off an enemy coast. The enemy has a fighter circling his city (intercept mode I think it is called). How do I engage in combat with the enemy fighter from the carrier to gain air superiority before attacking the city with my aircraft ? Or does it just happen when...

I play using W7 on a 1920x1080 monitor [exactly half linear res of 4K] (and a 1366x768 which is not exactly scaled to full HD) and the only obvious distortions I get are in opening sequence where the planets are obviously oblate spheroids and not spheres. Elsewhere it's not noticeable. But I...

Of the two methods above, both work. I prefer Colon's Alt+Tab way because it makes best use of my full screen; Although setting the screen up in a window does allow me to have a no-distortion game view (I think the game must have been designed for ' 15.6" ' screens 640x480; 4:3, but my...

Thanks for your inputs. Thanks, Bibor, for explaining the game in relation to board games. I thought I said I played the board game once lol, many years ago. I still have not experimented with whipping, slavery or other civics. I have been figuring out "working a tile" (I did not...

Thanks Colon, didn't think think of that I tried 'esc' which usually reduces reduces fs to a smaller size (e.g., youtube) but that didn't work. However I eventually found this by Rayanth giving instructions how to run Civ4 in windowed mode (I have tried it briefly and it seems to...

Thanks for this Rayanth, now I will be able to spend less time waiting for the game to load (having saved & quit to e.g., check my mail, consult the internet) SmallBrain 9.April.2016

Gumbolt, thank you for another useful post. No need to help me with this game specifically, that was not the purpose of this thread ! Your advice has been read with gratitude and I it was very good of you (and the others) to share it with me, but I understand it is becoming not constructive...

Yes, I do play for fun, I am not a professional ! (or serious). That's why it's called a game. I started at the easiest level because I thought that was most appropriate for some new to the game (having played the board game only once, a long time ago). I feel that that I am not ready to...