Recent content by stalio

This is really useful. I would have thought cultural victories would be easier on slower speeds.

Have you played the scenario before in single play? It was a while ago, but if I recall correctly, you have to play as Alexander and you can't play as anyone else, making it impossible for multi-player.

It's rare for me to able to win a space race unless I have a lot of land from conquering at least one other civ. A few times I have been lucky enough to start with a ridiculous amount of land for no war (except for barb cities)

The game does that in both Standard and Balanced. It's supposed to simulate nature. In the real world you would find spices growing near each other, or elephant herds near each other, or sugar canes growing near each other, etc.

Depends on map size/number of civs, but generally you know you've won a military victory on a standard map with 7 civs after you successfully conquer just one civilization.

That is true, you just have to be careful. One time I had to waste a great scientist on bulbing alphabet so I could build research to help me get out of my hole. Stalin DoWed me and I couldn't help taking more Russian cities than I could afford after destroying his offensive stack.:p

I just charge their closest culture city to the coast and raze it, then get out, unless I want to conquer the entire civ instead of just prevent their culture victory, in which case I will usually capture it, because even the AI usually picks quality cities for their culture victory.

Civ IV is really easy to run by today's standards. Your computer should run it well, although 2GB RAM is weak if you're running Vista/7. I don't see how C2D E6600 and 8800 GTX could struggle at all with Civ IV, unless you're using some mods that ruin performance. Your hard drive is more than...

You are wrong. "I've never won a game below 60%" What a terrible fallacy. You've never won that way, therefore it's inferior? If you have a lot of good land available to you through peaceful expansion, it's definitely better to expand into it at the cost of your research investment, as it will...

Why multiply by 4? Does "84x52" not mean "84 tiles by 52 tiles"?

Thank you very much. But to be sure, I must ask you: Are all of the official map sizes (duel-huge, excluding large+ and huge+) unmodified in that picture? Your screenshot says 8 players instead of 7, which is curious.

1&E. I like the original screen and I don't pursue a victory condition. I go for the one the game forces me to try and win.

I couldn't find information on the exact dimensions, in height and width, of the different map scripts for each map size. So now I have come here hoping someone would tell me.