Recent content by tjhooker

Everything sounds great, when it all matches. The most important lesson /strategy is to adapt to your surrondings. One city might have several extra foods, whick makes a settler factory, and the other might have extra shields making it a unit-factory. These two combined makes a better start...

How long since last reformat? Monhts, years? Check your computer for spyware which may be running, and thus taking up resources. Ad-Aware is a tool for this. Specs please, like OS, Ram, processor would be helpful.

Why do you use FAT32 and not NTFS? Its better, as simple as that! edit: dont know why it wont defrag. sorry

Just get a Laptop with a Centrino processor and you definitely won't regret it. Great performance, dont let the low speed (ghz) fool you, theyre just as fast as those huge 2,4ghz, they dont make as much noise and the battery sure as hell will thank you. IIRC atleast doubled babtterycapasity...

Normally I would advice getting the best chipset, and a pretty fast processor. Like Intels 875P and atleast 2,8ghz processor. In a couple of years you're probably gonna be happy because your computer not yet outdated, you just need another harddisk and some Memory. (They're pretty easy to change...

How come everybody thinks Americas underrated? Wouldnt that mean that many people are playing with them, thus making them a first or second choice? And therefore not underrated? Well, I have not played with each and every civ, but I guess Commercial trait is a bit underrated.

Kangyio: You should try Future Age start scenario. Even on a small or standard game, it goes pretty fast. On Monarch or Emperor it gets pretty hairy!

Tha game just have so many aspects to discuss. Action-games, First Person Shooters (or what its called) have less thinking and more acting. I guess I like these "slow" games cause I'm more interested in quality than quantity. Beein good in Civ is more than just playing it till your hand gets...

It's probably because AI doesnt know how to manage the kings, in regicide-games. This is for multiplayer-games I suppose with 4 or 2 human players. In PTW I often use Regicide so games will be shorter cause AI always leave theyre king in the capital and doesnt move it around when threatned...

To make this tip a little more useful I took the right to elaborate: Step 1: clean you neighbours garden for leaves. Make sure you keep them leaves in a bag or something. Ask for money. Get any? That's good, but next time you'll get more. Step 2: Spread them leaves in the next garden! Ask to...

It got Iron Works. At the time I'm in Golden Age which took the production from 412 to 484 if I recall correctly. But how much more could I get from Mobilization? If the city was placed on the iron would it still produce the same amount of food, shields and gold? If so I would get another...

Well, as you probaply see, this map isnt exactly standard, but for the purpose of the test it serves well. It seems to be impossible to maximize both production and culture in one turn. But does anyone have a clue how much max culture per turn would be? This city made 214 cpt, but...

try selling your world map for a couple of golds per turn, or if you got any technology that your neighbour doesnt have. Your dad propably have some spirits around the house, maybe a little luxury could solve the problem.

Propaganda doesnt work when the civ is in democracy IIRC, so that should be examined at the time you plant the spy. I guess the culture-similarity (ie. european culturegroup), also plays a part in flipping. I know theres a "calculator" for the chances of making a flip, so that could be a...

Try to initiate propaganda. Plant a spy, select the city which you want to flip and hopefully it will flip immediately. Try again if unsuccessful. This cost a bit so if the city isnt that useful, you should consider going to war instead, if that isnt out of the question. Distance to...