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    IGN Game of the Year Overall Results

    IGN has finally released their GotY Overall Results. Civilization IV was awarded Best Strategy Game overall... ... but was denied the honour of 2005 GotY. God of War recieved that award..
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    What Religion do you usually find yourself getting first?

    Typically I go for Buddhism if I start with Mysticism and Hinduism if I don't.
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    Cultural vs City Boundaries

    Your cultural boundaries are your borders; tiles within those boundaries are yours, and no one else may enter them (with some exceptions). These expand when a city's culture points reach certain thresholds. Your city boundaries enclose squares where the city can work to produce Food...
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    Civ 4 Game of the Year Winner!

    Civ 4 has been named Strategy Game of the Year by GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/features/bestof2005/index.php?day=4&page=11). It's also been named a finalist for PC Game of the Year (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/features/bestof2005/index.php?day=5&page=8). They'll announce the PC...
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    Which laptops run Civ4?

    My laptop broke and I couldn't be happier because my new one plays Civ 4 perfectly. Toshiba Satellite M70 SR2 Intel Celeron M 1.6GHz ATI Radeon XPress 200M 512MB RAM Runs at 1280x800 with full graphics. :D
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    Vancouver, B.C.

    I got mine from EB Victoria yesterday. All they had were preorders... luckily mine was one of them.
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    NO MANUAL! Is this a Canada thing?

    I got a hard-copy manual with my preorder edition from EB Victoria.
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    How Many ATI users have gotten the game to run

    Radeon 7000 on a laptop (yeah, I'm pushin' it...), and I get lots of black land and Cheshire leaderheads when I try to run the game. I can make it playable if I force the map to be visible at all times, but that ruins the fun of the game.
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    ATI Graphics Card Owners: PLEASE READ

    Card: ATI Radeon 7000 DirectX 9 installed from Civ4 CD Attempt One: Driver: Original driver Status: Cheshire Cat/Black Land problem Attempt Two: Driver: Omega drivers Status: "Failed to Initialize Renderer" Attempt Three: Driver: Catalyst 5.10 driver Additional: Art0.pak Fix Status: Cheshire...
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    Canada

    Civilization IV has arrived at EBGames Victoria. However, when I went down to pick up my copy, every last one was spoken for by pre-orders. Good thing I pre-ordered mine...
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    What Civ will you add first?

    The Canadians ('cause I'm Canadian, eh?).
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    Return of the King Extended Edition

    I just bought it today aswell. Had I not bought it as a Christmas present for my dad, I'd be watching it today, but since it is a present, I'll have to wait another 11 days.
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    Where do you go to school?

    I also attend UVic, but I enjoy the computer programming stuff. Which reminds me ... EXAMS!!! (eek!)
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    How do you live?

    Other. Exactly 18, at home with parents while attending university.
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    Image Editing Fun Episode IV

    Figures. I leave the site for half a year and miss out on all the fun. Mannnnn....
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